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  Re: I watched a movie the oth
  By: Mike Powell to ED VANCE on Sat Sep 06 2025 10:41:45

 > I know they have delays on things, in more recent times, so that they can
 > censor potential issues but I wasn't sure how they did it.  So I guess the
 > DJ was hearing it in real time and was able to hit the button so that what
 > was picked up by the separate head was not heard over the air?

This echo is unlocking memories left and right :)

One of my good friends used to work in a radio station (in the UK, where we
both live). The button, down in engineering at least, to drop the 8 second (?)
buffer contents was marked "DUMP", which my brother and I always thought was
hilarious for, well, being another word for poo. We never got to press it :(

Anyway, the real reason I'm replying about this is because the mechanism they
used to build up the 8s buffer was a little bit smart (for the nineties, at
least). It used to, supposedly imperceptibly, extend the tiny bits of silence
in between songs, adverts and spoken words, until it had added the magic 8s of
extra silence and the program was running 8s behind live ready to dump again.
I am not sure what happened if your next caller swore as well before it had
banked enough time. Possibly you got dead air, then. But that might have
tripped off the dead air detector.

Unlikely, though, being as my mate had it tuned to a different radio station
which was more his taste to listen to in the engineering room :)

BobW
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