Delays on live coverage

[Jeff Lehmann]

That is done because in a car, the HD signal will quite often drop out
unless you are within 15 miles or so of the transmitter. If they were not in
sync, it would be quite annoying.

Jeff Lehmann
Hanson, MA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Francini [mailto:francini@mac.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 8:40 PM
> To: Jeff Lehmann; 'A. Joseph Ross'; 'Boston Radio'
> Subject: RE: Delays on live coverage
> 
> It may have been discussed before, but why should the analog signal
> have to be delayed simply because the HD encoding delays the digital
> signal by a like amount?  Why not let them be asynchronous to each
> other?
> 
> j
> 
> 
> At 20:36 -0400 9/24/06, Jeff Lehmann wrote:
> >The 8 second delay on WBCN is because of HD Radio. You'd think they would
> >turn it off during the game, like it's been reported that WFAN and WCBS
> do
> >during daytime Mets/Yankees games.
> >
> >Jeff Lehmann
> >Hanson, MA
> >
> >>  -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
> >>  [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On
> Behalf
> >>  Of John Francini
> >>  Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 8:34 PM
> >>  To: A. Joseph Ross; Boston Radio
> >>  Subject: Re: Delays on live coverage
> >>
> >>  Speaking of delays in live coverage, right now I'm watching the
> >>  Patriots with Gil Santos & Gino's audio on WBCN.  Why the heck is the
> >>  audio about 8 seconds behind the video?  Did they fail to turn off
> >>  the phone-in delay when they went to the live game?
> >>
> >>  Makes it extremely frustrating to watch the game with the proper
> >>  announcers (i.e., NOT NBC network announcers!)
> >>
> >>  john francini
> >>
> >>
> >>  At 19:10 -0400 9/24/06, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> >>  >Tuesday evening, at Deb Goldberg's campaign headquarters, I noticed
> >>  >that, between the TV tuned to NECN and the one tuned to Channel 38,
> >>  >there was a delay of several seconds on NECN.  Has this sort of thing
> >>  >become standard since the Janet Jackson incident?  Does Channel 38
> >>  >not have a delay or was it simply less of a delay?
> >>  >
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> >>  John Francini, francini@mac.com
> >>
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> --
> John Francini, francini@mac.com
> 
> "The journey is more important than the destination-that's part of
> life. If you only live for getting to the end, you're almost always
> disappointed."     -Donald Knuth