Found this via one of those Tumblr archives I’ve got downloaded. I’ve seen a lot of complaints in recent years about the loudness of TV ads compared to the shows, but clearly this is not a new phenomenon… took a bit of effort to track down exactly when this issue came out, but I now find the year was 1959. So the “loud” commercial thing has been an issue since then at least (I wonder what the “facts” were; the US has laws against ad volume exceeding program volume but that’s only been since 2012) and it’s not even remotely a new thing, which is interesting. Well, to ME at any rate…
