Posted on 12/13/2012 1:44:47 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks
Those annoying ear-splitting commercials that come out of nowhere are now officially against the law. The rules governing implementation of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM) Act went into effect today requiring broadcasters, cable operators, satellite services and other video distributors to keep the volume level of commercials consistent with regular TV programming.
Loud commercials have been a top consumer complaint for decades, making the CALM Act a consumer favorite.
It also made the law's author, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) recognizable in grocery stores, she said during a press conference Thursday morning.
"It's the one bill that I've heard from people all over the country," said Eshoo of her 2008 bill. "This will be a relief to consumers. Today begins a new era of quieter TV."
Eshoo was joined at press conference this morning by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who sponsored the Senate companion bill that was passed in Dec. 2010. President Obama immediately signed the two-page bill into law Dec. 15, 2010. Once the Federal Communications Commission established the rules for the bill, media outlets were given a year to come into compliance.
If a loud commercial slips through, consumers must file a complaint with the FCC using the oline complaint form at www.fcc.gov/complaints.
I am happy to see this.
I got a mute button. I only see commercials, I never hear them.
How many more laws do we need!
Let’s get our savior the government involved in more things to protect you against anything that might offend you.
sorry, I do not agree.
bobo
Now, about those annoying, obtrusive telemarketing calls to mobile phones...
I am happy to see this.
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It is ‘nice’ to see something done BUT
It is a little much when the volume of a TV etc has to be decided by the courts and politicians.
This is a no brainer that the ‘powers that be’ should have showed some judgement and good faith and done something on their own, not involve Govt agencies.
It is BS like this that empowers these SOB’s into convincing the sheeples that ‘WE’ can not survive without ‘THEM’.
I do not answer anything when I do not know the number.
they give up calling me after awhile.
bobo
Ha ha. I'm not falling for that! I think comparing the talking of the show to the commercials is a much better way to compare, and the commercial is MUCH louder. Also, it is very annoying to be watching TV late at night when everyone is asleep and you get up during a break to go to the kitchen (or elsewhere...) and, all of a sudden, the TV is booming some stupid commercial throughout the whole house.
My phone doesn’t ring unless the caller is in my contacts list. I figure whoever is calling can leave a voice mail.
I would have probably been ecstatic over this news, had it come ten or fifteen years ago. Too late now. My viewing of current programming has dwindled down to virtually nil. Watch primarily dvd’s. Of older fare, from tv-series to movies. Reflective of when both America and its culture were still decent and something to take pride in.
How do you set that up?
How many Christmas shows can they come of with. Same script theme in everyone of them. Somebodys got to save some town and get married or find Santa Jr. a wife, etc.etc.etc., or there will be no Christmas.
None of it is worth the $80 I pay for the cable, 250 channels of NOTHING.
My phone has a “reject” button. If I don’t recognize the number I reject it.
Whaddya know, job creation! Gonna take hundreds if not thousands more bureaucrats to shuffle all the paper from this one!
I take it that you still subscribe to cable TV. If so, why?
So the lefty ads for lefty companies that drove me to drop my satellite feed can now get the creeps arrested? No more al Jazeera?
And everything is just one more stream of codified, liberal racist goo.
Sickening.
Who has watched a commercial in the last 7-8 years anyway.... DVR’s got rid of them...
Does this apply to the Government hectoring you at massive decibels over public address systems?
I do not want any satellite or cable, so I'm stuck. Need my grandsons to help me with all the TECH stuff. Used to be so simple. "Open box, plug it in". lol. Now I'm lost, and don't want to learn.
I will be getting rid of land line as well. Need to upgrade my very old flip top cell phone, lol.
I NEED HELP......don't anyone attempt to try and explain all of it to me on this thread. lol. I am like Jeff Dunhams "Peanut", goes right over my head.
Seems like all the new shows sitcoms, 1st thing in the first 2 seconds, some twosome is jumping into the sack, or talking about it.
Pretty bad, when they have to GRAB you in the first 2 seconds. Guess they know we all change the channels ASAP of the show coming on. rofl.
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