110 HR 6209 IH: Commercial Advertisement Loudness U.S. House of Representatives 2008-06-09 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 110th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6209 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 9, 2008 Ms. Eshoo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To require the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a standard to preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act.

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Rulemaking on loud commercials required

(a)

Regulation Required

Within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall prescribe pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) a regulation that provides, in connection with any video programming that is broadcast or that is distributed by any multichannel video programming distributor, that— (1)advertisements accompanying such video programming shall not be excessively noisy or strident; (2)such advertisements shall not be presented at modulation levels substantially higher than the program material that such advertisements accompany; and (3)the average maximum loudness of such advertisements shall not be substantially higher than the average maximum loudness of the program material that such advertisements accompany. (b)

Definitions

For purposes of this section, the terms video programming and multichannel video programming distributor have the meanings given such terms in section 602 of Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522).