[BC] Top of the hour Boing

[Fee Lee]

Back when I worked at Mutual Broadcasting, our Studio A was the main talk 
studio (that was Larry King's studio).  Of course taking live phone calls 
you had to have a delay.  It was a seven second delay.  The shows using the 
delay started seven seconds early to fill the delay.  We had also a delay on 
the "next event button" which triggered the network automation system.  The 
problem came when you had to dump the Eventide delay and there wasn't enough 
time to build up the delay to a full seven seconds and you came up to a 
network event, then a fixed delay on the "next event" trigger would upset 
the timing.  We had a variable delay that looked at the Eventide delay to 
see how much delay time had built up and delayed the "next event" trigger by 
the proper amount. 

                                       Fee Lee 

Clay Freinwald <cfreinwald at entercom.com> writes: 

>  
> 
> 
> From: "Richard Fry" <mailto:rfry at adams.net>rfry at adams.net 
> 
> WBBM's time tones on the hour and 1/2-hour are running about 8 seconds 
> late
> this morning, which I guess must be related to their reported HD startup.
> They used to be dead on, as close as I could match them with an ear/eye
> comparison to a radio controlled clock. 
> 
> Richard - 
> 
> You'd better get used to the network 'time-hacks' being off.  Here in 
> Seattle those CBS Boings have been off for years with the station 
> operating a naughty word delay for just as long.   We have an FM here that 
> has now three delays operating - 1) HD Radio, 2) Naughty catcher # 1 and 
> now 3) Naughty catcher # 2.   Geesh...There is enough time for the board 
> op to go out and get a cup of coffee and get back before it runs out.    I 
> am starting to believe that 'real time' radio is about to be a thing of 
> the past.   Then again there is a lack of ability  of folks to read 
> anything but a digital clock...but that's another story. 
> 
> Clay Freinwald  
> 
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