/ 12.08.2011 12:00AM
FCC to Take Up CALM Rules Next Tuesday
WASHINGTON: As expected, the Federal Communications
Commission will take up rules for the CALM Act at its last open meeting of the
year. The commission is under a legislative directive to issue its rules for
implementing the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act by the end of
the year. The law directs the FCC to create rules that “prevent digital television
commercial advertisements from being transmitted at louder volumes than the
program material they accompany.”
The commission will consider a Report and Order on CALM and one other item, a
third report to Congress on the status of competition in domestic and
international satellite communications, at its regular monthly meeting, now
scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 10:45 a.m. Eastern Time.