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Senate Approves Bill to Limit Volume of TV Commercials

Your TV watching experience may be getting a lot calmer very soon, thanks to a newly Senate-approved bill that would put a limit on how loud advertisers can make their commercials. The appropriately titled Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) calls for the FCC to draft new regulations which would guarantee that televised commercials can't be obscenely loud, or broadcast at a ...

Congress Cracks Down on Loud Commercials

You've been there. Sitting in your living room, passively watching commercials on the TV while you wait for 'Mad Men' to come back on, maybe enjoying a cold beverage or getting lost in a daydream. When all of a sudden, you get hit with a freight train of sound that jolts you out of our reverie. After the shock passes and you crawl out from underneath the coffee table, you realize that no, that ...