Sunday, November 07, 2004
Pip pip
Broadcasting House, this morning, had an article on the missing pips (aka time signal) during an episode of the World at One earlier in the week. What caught my ear was an e-mail in from one listener which pointed out that as there is a delay of about two seconds on digital radio (it's even longer on the Internet), the pips are always two seconds late.
Radio 4 does have strict rules regarding the pips. You are only allowed to broadcast all six of them at the right time. You'll never hear more than five at any other time (if for example they are doing a story on the pips at 25 past the hour). I think they need to seek some way of blotting them out on digital and the Internet since the slight delay renders them pointless.
Radio 4 does have strict rules regarding the pips. You are only allowed to broadcast all six of them at the right time. You'll never hear more than five at any other time (if for example they are doing a story on the pips at 25 past the hour). I think they need to seek some way of blotting them out on digital and the Internet since the slight delay renders them pointless.
# posted by JeremyP : 10:19 am
