A surprising number of FReepers were on board for an FCC mandate controlling the volume of commercials. As I recall, you're a ham. The power of the FCC should be limited to the very narrow area of ensuring that harmful interference doesn't occur between operators. Period. Dictating content in any way is far beyond the scope of why the commission exists.
All one need do is build a simple limiting amp that cuts off the commercials should they hit a certain decibel.
BTW I was listening to WBCQ tonight on short wave and apparently there are like 750,000 HAM operators in the US today.
The numbers are on the rise, rather than the wane.
People want autonomy.
The right thing is watch less TV or cancel.
If we had actual competition, we’d have other TV options where the volume was not increased.
Try reading the Executive Summary of the FCC budget.
JOKE. COMPLETE FARCE. The biggest reasons they were claiming for their existence (budget), i.e., things that they actually DO - ..... “modernize their technology”.
If the Executive summary sounds like my 9th grade paper where I just put in fluff - how fluffy are the details behind the summary ?
It’s really stealing from the taxpayer and laughing in the taxpayer’s face. Disgusting.
You know what the monkey said that got his tail caught in the lawnmower?
“It won’t be long now”
Whatever happened to the notion of personal responsibility?
“A surprising number of FReepers were on board for an FCC mandate controlling the volume of commercials. As I recall, you’re a ham. The power of the FCC should be limited to the very narrow area of ensuring that harmful interference doesn’t occur between operators. Period. Dictating content in any way is far beyond the scope of why the commission exists.”
Cable around here is _effectively_ a monopoly. In return for having a monopoly (gas, electric, water, and so on) companies have for more than a century given up some of their freedoms. I might agree that this is not the FCC’s job, the local and state authorities should be empowered to do this, assuming that they haven’t been paid off, which is, of course, highly unlikely.
I find it infuriating to be blasted out of a chair at night by loud commercials. You may say “get rid of cable” but I don’t have any other choice for a similar product - and no, satellite, over the air, and the Internet are not “similar” here.