If you want to send in your comments the old-fashioned way, the FCC says that parties who choose to file by paper must “file an original and one copy of each filing.” The filings can be sent by commercial overnight courier, or by first-class or overnight US Postal Service mail, and the filings need to be addressed to the Commission’s Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Federal Communications Commission. Comments can be filed electronically, by visiting the FCC’s Electronic Comments Filing System (or ECFS, for short), here.
If you think TV commercials are too loud and you want to give the FCC an earful about it, here’s how. “In 2011,” the notice continues, “the Commission adopted implementing rules that require television stations and multichannel video programming providers (MVPDs) to ensure that all commercials are transmitted to consumers at the appropriate loudness level in accordance with the industry standard mandated in the statute.” The CALM Act was enacted just over 10 years ago to protect viewers from excessively loud commercials. According to a public notice from the FCC, the deadline for the commission to receive comments is in June - and the notice reads, in part: “We invite comment from consumers and industry on whether any updates are needed to the commission’s rules implementing the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act. But back to the public comment that the FCC is seeking.