“... and now a word from our sponsor: ‘DO YOU SUFFER FROM HEMORRHOIDS???’”
We have all experienced the nerve shattering scream of a commercial blaring at us out of a previously quiet television program.
Heaven help you if there’s a baby sleeping in the house.
You get everything from dandruff, female hygiene, erectile dysfunction and the illness de jour delivered to you at the top of an amplified announcer’s lungs, thanks to the ability for the TV to get louder when the commercial is on.
But that is all going to change if the federal government has its way.
According to the Associated Press, “the days of getting blasted out of the easy chair by blaring TV commercials may soon be over.
“The House on Thursday gave final congressional approval to a bill that would prevent advertisers from abruptly raising the volume to catch the attention of viewers wandering off when regular programming is interrupted.”
The legislation that is being developed states, “the Federal Communications Commission would be required within one year to adopt industry standards that coordinate ad decibel levels to those of the regular program. The new regulations, applying to all broadcast providers, including cable and satellite, would go into effect a year after that.”
Of course there is a more certain way to insure that you aren’t blasted by the TV.
Turn the blasted think off.
Seriously.
America would be a better place in which to live if more of us watched A LOT LESS television.
Give it a try for a few weeks and see if you don’t feel better about the world around you. Read something positive. Watch some good movies that you pick. Try some of the self programming that is so incredibly abundant on the Internet.
It’s worth a try, and you won’t get your eardrums blasted — unless you choose that while you are watching a movie or listening to good music.
— Chuck Smith