Thanks for the replies!

d6jg, if I understand what you're saying, all BBC radio services will
carry the same thing, cutting away from whatever program is in progress
at about 23:59:30 to hear the Westminster chimes, then resuming regular
programs after the final stroke of midnight and brief New Year's wishes.
Is that right? So the only reason to choose one over all the others is
which regular programming one prefers?

I understand that, due to latency, the new year will be a few seconds
old by the time we hear it ringing in. I'm okay with that. When I used
to work at an NPR station, we carried the annual New Year's broadcast of
live remotes from venues across the country. (It's all canned now.) The
countdown to midnight was almost always off in every time zone. The
latency of multiple satellite hops accounted for some of the delay, but
not all of it! They were just very lax about time-keeping. Even with
network latency, I think The Great Clock will probably be more accurate
than those broadcasts.


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