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Old 12-20-2010, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Larryandlinda View Post
Re: the volume of commercials: On Wednesday President Obama signed into law the "Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation" or "CALM Act." A press release from the White House states the law "requires the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a regulation limiting the volume of audio on commercials transmitted by television broadcast stations, cable operators, and other multichannel video programming distributors."

Basically, I don't think they'll allow commercials to be any louder than the show.
It was signed into law Wednesday but stations have one year to implement.
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