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European broadcasters agreed a loudness target in 2011

EBU R128 recommended minus 23 LUFS so adverts stopped jumping out louder Television channels had long compressed advertisements harder than programmes, so viewers reached for the remote at every break. The European Broadcasting Union's R128 recommendation set a single loudness target and a true peak ceiling for all broadcast audio. Meters that follow it are now built into most editing software. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: EBU R128 recommended minus 23 LUFS so adverts stopped jumping out louder. The figure is taken from International Telecommunication Union, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.