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A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked?

Posted by Soulskill on from the where's-the-beef dept.

netbuzz writes "It's been a year since the FCC implemented the CALM Act, a law that prohibits broadcasters from blasting TV commercials at volumes louder than the programming. Whether the ban has worked or not depends on who you ask. The FCC notes that formal complaints about overly loud commercials are on the decline in recent months, but those complaints have totaled more than 20,000 over the past year."

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  1. Re:The issue has moved to the Internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ('cept for that whole health insurance mandate.)

    Nice troll. I'll bite.
    You don't have to use it either. You can pay your penalty. Did you flip your shit this much when your state mandated car insurance too? I mean you can forego it as well but you won't be having a license if you get caught. AFAIK every state in the US now has mandatory car insurance. Some are just fines for noncompliance (around $500) and some revoke your license for 6 months or more. C'mon. Where is all your outrage now? Did our society totally fall to shit now that everyone is supposed to have car insurance? Doesn't look like it to me.