The FCC is receiving fewer complaints about loud...
The FCC is receiving fewer complaints about loud commercials, acting Enforcement Bureau Chief Robert Ratcliffe wrote the authors of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, which targeted such loud commercials. House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Sen.…
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Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., released the letter Friday (http://1.usa.gov/HNqcs9). The CALM Act rules took effect in December, and Ratcliffe listed the complaints from June through September -- 3,501, about 53 percent fewer complaints than in the four months before that. Since December 13,606 of the 19,194 of the complaints have been referred to the Enforcement Bureau, the FCC said. “The Enforcement Bureau’s efforts in this area have been hampered by incomplete or insufficiently specific data,” it said. Eshoo said in a statement” fewer complaints suggest that fewer TV commercials are airing at volume levels inconsistent with the programming around them.” Whitehouse praised how complaints have “steadily declined.”