The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers published a...
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers published a new standards document for spot check loudness measurements. The document is intended to help cable systems comply with federal Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act mandates, said an SCTE release Thursday. The…
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Act requires that the audio level of commercial messages be at the same average loudness as the associated programming content. Titled “Recommendations for Spot Check Loudness,” SCTE 197 2013 provides best practices for measuring the audio content carried in a single programming channel of a program network, guidelines for recording measured loudness and interpreting the collected data. The new SCTE document was developed under the SCTE Digital Video Subcommittee Audio Drafting Group and is at http://bit.ly/XTf03V.