"Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) rules require commercials to have the same average volume as the programs they accompany. In the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, Congress directed the FCC to establish these rules, which went into effect on December 13, 2012."
I hereby use this platform to formally invite the FCC to watch TV in my house. Not a night goes by without reaching for the remote because of a loud commercial. The most worn button on my remote is the mute. Want to blast some loud music into my house, Home Depot? Be mute! What? You're the Pizza Hut ad that comes after the loud Home Depot commercial? Sorry, I can't hear you because you're mute too. And you too, T-Mobile. And Chili's. And Ford Fusion. And fuck you, Flo from Progressive Insurance. And fuck what's next on NBC. All because the assholes at Home Depot CAN'T KEEP THE NOISE DOWN!
