For the love of Lucy, why????!

Can someone tell me WHY commercials are so much louder than the shows they interrupt?

A little hang-over after an insomniatic night is rendered all the more unpleasant by John Basedow, DeVry, or some K-tel crap blaring in my ear!

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Just think of how inconvenient it was before remote control.

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advice to Zola-read a book.

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i can tell you, though my science terms are a bit fuzzy--imagine the volume as a readout, like a lie detector machine...during a regular program, the "waves" are much more steady and even and don't spike as often as they do in a commercial--it's definitely intentional, it's loud to get your attention, wake you up (literally) and they only have 30 seconds of time, so they pack much more vloume in than a regular tv program, which is, of course, MUCH longer...

Are there any other kind?

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