d6jg wrote: 
> Point of order. It isn’t Radio 6!....

Thanks for the correction! If I had actually looked at the BBC app,
instead of going by what passes for my memory, I might have gotten it
right. Being a survivor of a career in radio, that's the sort of
distinction that matters to me.

By the way, I should also qualify my earlier comments about the time
errors in NPR New Year's broadcasts of years past. I implied that they
might have been the result of carelessness, but that's probably not the
case. More likely, each feed was subjected to multiple delays for
content assessment. In other words, to make it possible to kill the feed
in case someone uttered one of those words that must never be heard on
the airwaves of the USA. Quite possibly, there was a delay on the feed
from the remote site, and another one on the national feed from D.C.

However, I did sometimes visualize an exasperated producer trying to cue
the musicians to do the countdown and being ignored until they were good
and ready. But I don't actually know if that ever happened. If I were
inclined to bet, I'd probably be willing to put money behind it, though.


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