Loud Commercials, Satellites on FCC’s Dec Agenda

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Tuesday, December 13, 2011. The FCC will consider:

  1. a Report and Order that protects consumers by implementing the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act to prevent digital television commercial advertisements from being transmitted at louder volumes than the program material they accompany. (MB Docket No. 11-93)
  2. the Third Report to the U.S. Congress on the status of competition in domestic and international satellite communications services as required by Section 703 of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962, as amended. The Report covers calendar years 2008, 2009 and 2010. (IB Docket No. 10-99)

Loud Commercials, Satellites on FCC’s Dec Agenda