Minivan crashes into studio during newscast

[Scott Fybush]

Bill O'Neill wrote:

> Parking lot moments...not just for NPR anymore.

Having nothing to do with the WLS-TV crash...we had an interesting 
conversation at WXXI the other day. Now that we're simulcasting our AM 
1370 news-talk programming on FM 91.5-HD2, a few of us have noted the 
very long delay that's inherent (at least for now) in the coding and 
decoding of the HD secondary channels. They run close to a full minute 
behind the delay-free analog.

But, see, that's a feature, not a bug - there are no more "driveway 
moments" when you can turn the radio (tuned to analog 1370) off in the 
car, take a leisurely stroll indoors, turn on the radio (tuned to 
91.5-HD2) and - voila! - there you are, listening to the same broadcast 
without having missed a moment of programming.

I'm not sure we could explain that in a :30 promo - or that we'd want to 
try!

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