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M0PZT > TIME 16.04.07 10:56l 44 Lines 1738 Bytes #999 (0) @ GBR.EU
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Subj: Re: Differences between standards?
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M1BYT wrote:-
> I do notice the pips on R2 FM are quite a way out, perhaps one or two
> seconds delayed.
Wogan or Wrighty ?! Radio 2 may have gone down the "digital" route for
it's linking. I'll have to listen today at 5pm and see/hear it for
myself.
Interesting. Until last year, BBC Radio 2 used to be at Broadcasting
House alongside Radio's 3+4. They're now across the road in Western House
(with 6Music). When Radio 1 took over Yalding House in 1996, they used
copper circuits for the link back to BH. As far as I'm aware, they're
still using them and this doesn't induce any delay - the pips are taken
weekdays at 10am at the end of the Chris Moyles Show and are always
spot-on with my MSF clock.
Sources like this (plus House of Commons, Big Ben and all the networks)
are fed into the BBC's "ringmain" - which is a multi-select switch that
then brings up that particular audio source via a fader on the desk. I'm
not sure what the distribution system is for *that* - but I can find out.
A friend of mine is a studio manager at the World Service - and there's
been talk that thanks to all the digital delays, the programming may have
to be time-shifted to compensate for - In other words, you leave the real
world and enter a studio that's now -3s behind real-time.
I have a great story about the new hydraulic desks that have now been
installed in various studios - perhaps an EMC-related topic for a later
bulletin.
As humourous aside, BBC Essex used to have a copy of their "News In"
jingle on tape with the pips pre-mixed and entitled "News In Emergency".
Quite what the pips were supposed to be aligned to I've no idea ;-)
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Charlie - M0PZT @ GB7ESX.#31.GBR.EU
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(10:17 / 16 Apr 2007)
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