Outside Radio broadcasts.......

[ELVIS68]

Listening to talksport radio and they have co-presenters, one in Poland, one in England and they chat away as if they are in the same studio, even taking calls, cricket, weather and traffic updates without talking over one another or delays.

Are they having us on or what?

[B00]

Times, and more importantly technological progress, have moved on y'know from the days when you were a boy huddled in your bedroom with your CB :P

[ELVIS68]

lol B00, I know but even live tv links have delays and technical hitches

[FredPuli43]

Ah, the good old days , when David Coleman sounded as though he was on a very poor phone line. Perhaps he was. Maybe TalkSport has found a suburb of Salford called 'Poland' ?

Most mysterious is the 1 a.m. programme 'Up All Night', on Radio 5. The Scottish presenter, who alternates, is apparently in London, but the truth is that he broadcasts from the US, where he lives. This fact is never mentioned. The other one, Dotun Adebayo, is in Britain, and mentions that quite frequently. This is all some BBC dark secret, but why has never been explained.

[ChuckFickens]

Years ago the only way to get a broadcast from a remote location was via satellite and the early communication sats where slow at processing the incoming data and then rebroadcasting it back to the ground, this is what introduced the delays we all remember from the 80's on TV and radio.

This days radio broadcasts from a remote location in the same country will more likely be sent over either ISDN or even just the normal internet with next to no delay. broadcasts from further away may still be sent via the internet with only a few hundred milliseconds delay or via satellite but as modern comms sats are a lot faster than the early ones there is also only a few hundred milliseconds delay even from the other side of the world.