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A broadcast delay, profanity delay, or time delay is a means to provide a brief delay for review of a live broadcast to ensure it meets broadcast standards, and does not have any indecency or obscenity. This is most often done to ensure that profanity is not aired outside of overnight safe harbor hours, when children may be watching or listening. This is particularly important on talk shows, when callers may unexpectedly say inappropriate things. It may also be done, often with a shorter delay, in order to eliminate coughs or other noises not wanted on the air. Since a death happened on live television in 2004, it is now also used for broadcast remotes on TV if there is the risk of violence. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... In radio and television, tape delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. ... Delay is: In sound effects, any of a class of effect that adds one or more delayed versions of the original signal, to create effects such as echo or flanger. ... A review is a piece of writing that discusses the authors opinion on a piece of publication, such as a movie, video game, musical composition, book or novel. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A dictionary definition of Indecent not conforming with accepted standards of behaviour or morality. ... Obscenity has several connotations. ... Profanity is a word choice or usage which its audience considers to be offensive. ... In literal terms, safe harbor or safe harbour is a harbor which is protected and provides safety from weather or attack. ... A female child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Death is the cessation of physical life in a living organism, or the state of the organism after that event. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In broadcast engineering, a remote broadcast (usually just called a remote or a live remote) is broadcasting done from a location away from the regular studio. ... See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... Violence refers to acts —typically connotative with aggressive and criminal behaviour —which intend to cause or is causing of injury to persons, animals, or (in limited cases) property. ...

The delay can be provided through a special type of tape recording, or more recently, the use of computer memory to record and subsequently play back live audio and video after review by censors. Many audio mixing consoles and telephone hybrids are now digital and have such a feature built in. In television this is more difficult, as the audio and video must maintain proper synchronization, and uncompressed video takes an enormous amount of memory. For omission and secrecy, see censorship. ... BBC Local Radio Mark III radio mixing desk In professional audio, a mixing console, mixing desk (Brit. ... A telephone hybrid is a relatively simple electronic device used to connect a telephone system to regular audio circuits. ... A digital system is one that uses numbers, especially binary numbers, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system) or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons. ... Synchronization is coordination with respect to time. ...

Digital delay units have a computer memory buffer, and typically have several buttons and a small display on the front, and are mounted in a single rack unit. Every delay has a "dump" button, which deletes all or part of the buffer. More advanced units include a timestretch feature, which allows the audio to be sped up or slowed down slightly without a change in pitch. This is in order to refill (rebuild) the buffer, or to empty the buffer (ramp-to-zero) at the end of a show or just before a break. This is turn allows for a "cough" or "sneeze" button to keep unwanted noises or comments in the studio and off the air, by keeping the delay unit from recording it. The terms storage (U.K.) or memory (U.S.) refer to the parts of a digital computer that retain physical state (data) for some interval of time, possibly even after electrical power to the computer is turned off. ... Buffer can have various meanings: In chemistry, the term buffer refers to a buffer solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid. ... A rack unit is a unit of measure used to describe the height of a server or other similar device mounted in a 19 rack. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... A schematic representation of hearing. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Art studio Adriaen van Ostade. ...

Despite the delay, which is only a few seconds, a broadcast with such a delay is still considered to be live. Look up Second in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The second (symbol: s) is the SI base unit of time. ...