The CALM Act may have lowered the volume on TV commercials over a decade ago, but the problem is resurging on streaming services and elsewhere.

Commercials are still too loud, say “thousands” of recent FCC complaints 1,700 complaints about boisterous TV ads hit the FCC in 2024.

How to Block YouTube Ads on Your Android TV YouTube plans to spam you with unskippable 30-second ads, and show you even more ads when you pause videos.

Max's support pages acknowledge that it's showing 6 minutes of ads per show, up from 4 minutes last year. Ads now run in the middle of HBO programming.

A reader suspects that TV networks and stations are running more commercials — and he’s right. Whenever TV viewership declines, as it did after the elections, the number of ads spikes. Just w… ...

If you have a smart TV, you've probably noticed the number of ads you have to deal with just to get to the shows and movies you actually want to watch. Here's how to block them on Samsung, LG, and ...

This gripe session is for those viewers who find themselves in front of the most unimaginative ads possible, and, worst of all, see them over and over again, to the point where you actually recite ...

The CALM Act bans the audio of TV commercials from being louder than the average volume of the program. Here’s what to do if the ads on your TV are too loud.

Ads are here, there — almost everywhere — on streaming services now. By John Koblin Not long ago, streaming TV came with a promise: Sign up, and commercials will be a thing of the past ...