Grammy TV Audio?
"Roy W. Rising" wrote ...
Years ago, the "5-sec delay" was done using two videotape machines and a
rack of spools to contain 5 seconds' length of tape. Now, it's more like
a
home DVR that can playback what it is recording.
At the college radio station we had a pair of Ampex 350s in
in adjacent racks. The "A" on the left machine was used to
record the air mix, and after the loop (with a plastic 7-inch
reel to keep the loop tight) the "B" machine on the right would
play the tape back to the transmitter. Also kept the tape
spooled up on the "B" machine in case anybody came along
later with issues about the content.
I don't know CBS'
methods, ABC-TV has a department called "Broadcast Standards and
Practices". Network programming goes through the delay box in New York, a
B.S.& P. employee sits with a finger on "the button", following the script
and listening for unacceptable material. The mute is in real time, we
hear
it several seconds later.
We used to have a tough time with both board operators and
"talent" getting into (and out of) a show with 7 seconds of delay.
But modern digital equipment buffers in and out between real-
time and delayed-time pretty seamlessly.
These days on the TV "reality" and wacko studio shows they are
even obscuring the mouths of the people saying the forbidden words.
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