I know lotsa of you don't watch advertisements, and when possible I fly through them......

[a kennedy]

but when I do HAVE to watch them have they increased in volume??? Holy crap….I swear they do turn up the volume on them. Wasn’t there a time when they were supposed to decrease in volume???

[hlthe2b]

1. YES!!!! And damn, if I fall asleep with the tv on, those volume swings are enought to give me

a damned MI!

[Meadowoak]

2. Tv commercials have blasting the sound levels for years, its

Supposed to get your attention, some TVs even have a sound leveling feature, just for commercials.

[Yonnie3]

3. They also have a high degree of compression which results in an average higher level of sound

My peeve is when they insert cellphone ringtones and notification sounds and they've nothing to do with the ad.

[Walleye]

4. I hate that too

[Rebl2]

8. Same here

[John1956PA]

5. About forty years ago, there was talk of suing broadcasters for that.

I do not know if the lawsuit ever got filed.

[John1956PA]

6. I just learned that the FCC has jurisdiction over these complaints

https://www.fcc.gov/media/policy/loud-commercials

[Rebl2]

7. That's

what I thought too.

[lpbk2713]

9. Not only that but one other thing I noticed tonight.

While watching the ball games tonight I noticed the intro music coming back from commercial breaks was so loud it was hard to understand what the commentators were saying.