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Martin Brown wrote:
I also recall that even officially "live" outside broadcasts are about
10s behind true realtime so that if an atrocity occurs on camera the
editors can pull the plug before it is ever broadcast to air.

Not on any I ever worked on.

Used to be common on radio phone-ins, though.

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