{"id":103456,"date":"2025-02-28T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/commercials-are-still-too-loud-say-thousands-of-recent-fcc-complaints\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:34:20","slug":"commercials-are-still-too-loud-say-thousands-of-recent-fcc-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/commercials-are-still-too-loud-say-thousands-of-recent-fcc-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercials are still too loud, say \u201cthousands\u201d of recent FCC complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cThousands\u201d of complaints about the volume of TV commercials have flooded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in recent years. Despite the FCC requiring TV stations, cable operators, and satellite providers to ensure that commercials don\u2019t bring a sudden spike in decibels, complaints around loud commercials \u201ctook a troubling jump\u201d in 2024, the government body said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Under The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, broadcast, cable, and satellite TV providers are required to ensure that commercials \u201chave the same average volume as the programs they accompany,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/enforcement\/areas\/sound-volume-commercials-calm-act\">per the FCC<\/a>. The FCC\u2019s rules about the volume of commercials <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/12\/the-calm-act-finally-puts-the-muzzle-on-loud-tv-commercials\/\">took effect in December 2012<\/a>. The law also requires linear TV providers to use the Advanced Television Systems Committee&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atsc.org\/about\/\">ATSC\u2019s<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atsc.org\/atsc-documents\/a85-techniques-for-establishing-and-maintaining-audio-loudness-for-digital-television\/\">recommended practices<\/a>. The practices include guidance around production, post production, metadata systems usage, and controlling dynamic range. If followed, the recommendations \u201cresult in consistency in loudness and avoidance of signal clipping,\u201d per the ATSC [<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A85-2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]. The guidance reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If all programs and commercials were produced at a consistent average loudness, and if the loudness of the mix is preserved through the production, distribution, and delivery chain, listeners would not be subjected to annoying changes in loudness within and between programs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/are-tv-commercials-too-loud-fcc-to-investigate-eyes-streaming-services\">PC Mag<\/a>, the FCC claimed this week that The Calm Act initially reduced complaints about commercials aggressively blaring from TVs. However, the agency is seeing an uptick in grievances. The FCC said it received &#8220;approximately&#8221; 750 complaints in 2022, 825 in 2023, and &#8220;at least&#8221; 1,700 in 2024 [<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FCC.pdf\">PDF<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/commercials-are-still-too-loud-say-thousands-of-recent-fcc-complaints\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/02\/commercials-are-still-too-loud-say-thousands-of-recent-fcc-complaints\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThousands\u201d of complaints about the volume of TV commercials have flooded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in recent years. Despite the FCC requiring TV stations, cable operators, and satellite providers to ensure that commercials don\u2019t bring a sudden spike in decibels, complaints around loud commercials \u201ctook a troubling jump\u201d in 2024, the government body said on Thursday. Under The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, broadcast, cable, and satellite TV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Commercials are still too loud, say \u201cthousands\u201d of recent FCC complaints - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/commercials-are-still-too-loud-say-thousands-of-recent-fcc-complaints\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Commercials are still too loud, say \u201cthousands\u201d of recent FCC complaints - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThousands\u201d of complaints about the volume of TV commercials have flooded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in recent years. 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