Reply to post: Re: just receive an IP stream, buffer as necessary.

The future of radio may well be digital, but it won't survive on DAB

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Re: just receive an IP stream, buffer as necessary.

@Lee D

"Seven-second delay to cut out obscenities, etc. when they have phone-ins.

Literally just delay it by a few seconds (okay, you'll have to adjust the clocks in the studio but I imagine they already do)."

This might surprise you but in 25 years of professional radio production I have never seen or had to work with any delay mechanism. That includes working time served at some of the largest BBC networks, commercial broadcasters, local radio, and with some big-name presenters. We rely on producer judgement, quick fader action, and when need be, apologies.

But actually I can count on one hand the number of times punters have behaved in such a fashion that we'd need it - the reality is it just doesn't happen. Probably because We Have Your Number.

I can also assure you the response we'd get from engineers if we asked for a special clock mode that set them back seven seconds...

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