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Time Delay

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I was watching the Pitt-Tennessee basketball game on ESPN Saturday, and decided to tune in Bill Hillgrove's play-by-play on the radio (93.7).

To my surprise, the radio broadcast lagged the TV broadcast by nearly 20 seconds. Now, I can understand a few seconds, due to different distribution paths, processing, etc., but 20 seconds worth??? It got me to wondering if perhaps there's a contractual delay on the local radio feed, so that TV viewers really don't have the option of getting the audio via the radio?
 
The Steeler games are the same way too, have been all season. I used to be able to sync the broadcasts by pulling in the Tv pic with an over the air antenna. They would usually match up perfectly. If I used the Directv feed, that would be about 5 seconds behind the OTA reception. Now the OTA TV reception is about 20 seconds ahead of the radio broadcast, and DTV is drops that to about 15.
The play is already over and they are huddling up for the next when you hear what already happened.
Probably slowing it down for more commercials. Wrote to Moshuta at DVE and never got a response.
Clear Channel strikes again.
 
Usually I find the opposite to be true. The TV tends to lag the radio by a good bit.
 
Very likely the second delay setting is to utilize the dump button, should a bad, bad word be uttered (moreso by the athletes on the field - or by the crowd - than by the announcers). If I'm correct, having a signal in the IBOC standard (blech) also throws a signal into delay, even on the FM band.
 
Nathan Obral said:
Very likely the second delay setting is to utilize the dump button, should a bad, bad word be uttered (moreso by the athletes on the field - or by the crowd - than by the announcers). If I'm correct, having a signal in the IBOC standard (blech) also throws a signal into delay, even on the FM band.
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But wouldn't that bad, bad word be as likely to be picked up by the TV mics as the radio mics?

I've always heard the delay referred to as a "seven second" delay... what I heard was nearly 3 times that. Could the IBOC processing account for that much delay?
 
I usually attend Minor League baseball with a friend. One game summer before last, I went by myself. Since I didn't have anyone to talk with during the game, I brought along the radio to listen to the broadcast of the game I was watching. Never again. The broadcast was also 20 seconds behind the game. Listening started driving me crazy. No wonder you don't see people with ear pods in ballparks much any more. I emailed the station and they told me they were worried somebody might walk by the booth and say !@#$. Ridiculous.
 
In some major league parks now, they actually have a local transmitter that is real-time with the game. I thin you also havce to rent their radio.
 
Clear Channel is obviously doing something different this year. For at least 5 seasons I was able to sync radio and TV, this year not. Like the previous poster said, if you were at the game it would be maddening. I have pretty much given up on trying to listen to the local broadcast instead of the TV network guys.
 
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