Who is in charge of the sound levels of commercials vs the television show? Is it the station?
I am ready to put my foot up the ass of someone at TBS for making their commercials five times louder than the actual show. It's a game in our home. Who can get the remote the fastest just as the commercial is about to come on.
Please tell me I am not the only one who is a tight ass about the loud commercials?
TBS is a "cable broadcaster", and if it is a sporting event that you are watching they "contract out" the truck and the camera crew to cover the event (they don't own their own)......the operator in the truck (at the stadium) is controlling the audio levels, and uplinking them to TBS, who downlinks them to their cable customers........if the problem is not there when watching TBS's non sports programming, it is likely the board operator in the uplink truck that isn't paying attention to his spot insertion (audio) levels......usually they are part-time folks, and can be less than professional.....
Just FYI, the "trucks" that I'm speaking of are the ones that if you attend a televised game, you will see in the parking lot near the stadium, with miles of cables running to them.....they consist of two units....usually a large semi-trailer, which is the camera and ops production center, and a second large truck with a big satellite dish on top.....this is the "uplink" truck.....after the action is produced in the semi-trailer, it is fed to the uplink truck to transmit to the satellite for rebroadcast.
Bottom line, complain to TBS.....if you can find someone there to complain to.....however, if the problem is there all the time, more than likely your cable company is inserting their own local commercials, and their operators are generally the worst in the broadcast industry......I've seen cable companies that actually recruit homeless people for board operators.......
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