Question about this year's VMA

JackHammer · 08-26-2004, 02:16 PM

So I'm reading this yahoo article about this year's VMA and how they are thinking about toning it down and adding a video delay to the broadcast. In the article it said that, "there's talk of using a video delay for the first time on the live broadcast (it's had an audio delay for years). " Now my question is how can you have an audio delay without a video delay? Won't the video and audio be out of synch?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._tv/mtv_awards

ialsohaveadream · 08-26-2004, 04:33 PM

Sorry to go OT on your thread, but when I worked at Nickelodeon, the exec producer told me that they didn't have any kind of delay, so if a kid dropped an F bomb after he won a prize, it'd go out on the air.

Never happened, though. They might have bought one by now, though. This was 3 years ago.

kei2 · 08-26-2004, 04:37 PM

They're compelled to time delay it now; after the legislation that fines networks for airing profanities and the whole Super Bowl episode, no smart network will air anything unpredictable live. As far as delaying the audio and not the video... I don't know how that would work. That would put it out of synch, so I have to think that's wrong.

Mike_N_Ike · 08-26-2004, 05:03 PM

I was thinking maaaybe, they broadcast it over the radio and that's what the audio delay was referring to? I doubt it though.

Or maybe when they say audio delay, they mean that between the time the action happens and the time it airs on TV, there is a little guy sitting with his hand on the BEEP button ready to block out any profanity - but they're not set up to edit the video at all. Perhaps now, in addition to the BEEP (audio) button, they have a BLUR (video) button, or some other such effect that will stop people from being able to flash the TV audience.

redcolours · 08-26-2004, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike_N_Ike

I was thinking maaaybe, they broadcast it over the radio and that's what the audio delay was referring to? I doubt it though.

Or maybe when they say audio delay, they mean that between the time the action happens and the time it airs on TV, there is a little guy sitting with his hand on the BEEP button ready to block out any profanity - but they're not set up to edit the video at all. Perhaps now, in addition to the BEEP (audio) button, they have a BLUR (video) button, or some other such effect that will stop people from being able to flash the TV audience.

if i was on those controls, id just start hitting the BEEP button at random, and also BLUR even the most covered parts, just to make people wonder what they said, or what was blurred.

08-26-2004, 02:16 PM	#1
JackHammer Commander Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: The Toilet Capital of America Posts: 1,328	Question about this year's VMA So I'm reading this yahoo article about this year's VMA and how they are thinking about toning it down and adding a video delay to the broadcast. In the article it said that, "there's talk of using a video delay for the first time on the live broadcast (it's had an audio delay for years). " Now my question is how can you have an audio delay without a video delay? Won't the video and audio be out of synch? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._tv/mtv_awards __________________ "I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman." -Royal Tenebaum "Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I would do everything to her, I don't care what she looks like. I would wreck that chick." -Brian from the Family Guy after Peter asked him whether he would have sex with Lois.

08-26-2004, 05:03 PM	#4
Mike_N_Ike Captain Join Date: May 2000 Location: Irvine, CA Posts: 1,676	I was thinking maaaybe, they broadcast it over the radio and that's what the audio delay was referring to? I doubt it though. Or maybe when they say audio delay, they mean that between the time the action happens and the time it airs on TV, there is a little guy sitting with his hand on the BEEP button ready to block out any profanity - but they're not set up to edit the video at all. Perhaps now, in addition to the BEEP (audio) button, they have a BLUR (video) button, or some other such effect that will stop people from being able to flash the TV audience. __________________ -Mike

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08-26-2004, 04:33 PM	#2
ialsohaveadream Fleet Admiral Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: FL Posts: 8,077	Sorry to go OT on your thread, but when I worked at Nickelodeon, the exec producer told me that they didn't have any kind of delay, so if a kid dropped an F bomb after he won a prize, it'd go out on the air. Never happened, though. They might have bought one by now, though. This was 3 years ago.

08-26-2004, 04:37 PM	#3
kei2 Rear Admiral Lower Half Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 2,102	They're compelled to time delay it now; after the legislation that fines networks for airing profanities and the whole Super Bowl episode, no smart network will air anything unpredictable live. As far as delaying the audio and not the video... I don't know how that would work. That would put it out of synch, so I have to think that's wrong.

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