A Belated Happy New Years
It's 2006. But I got to thinking. Since the Janet Jackson incident during the Super Bowl, TV stations reverted to a time delay, and in the event that something obscene should happen, stations could cut away. I think the time delay is somewhere around three seconds, and even live sports events are time delayed in case an athlete happens to swear out loud or a real gross injury occurs. Also, events like live Presidential addresses are time delayed in the event some tragedy should occur, i.e. an assassination. So I got to thinking, and realized that if those events are time delayed, then the ball dropping must be time delayed as well, because hypothetically, what better time for a terrorist to strike than on our most joyest, unified moment as a nation? So when you think about it, New Years isn't really New Years if you're watching it on TV, it's three seconds off. New Years happened three seconds earlier and we technically missed out on the correct time. How much does that suck?
posted by KTrain at 12:50 AM
6 Comments:
You are of course assuming that, and rightfully so. But I disagree only because if you look at any other clock and compare it to the only that television shows use to judge the time on, their readings are the same (ex: the channel guide on tv or cell phones). Its a great thought and one day, it might be like that, but I don't think it is now.
i think they have the option to time delay certain things and not to.
mike
what up fellas, yeah I'm sure they have the option to take time delay off, especially during new years, although I split screened ABC's Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve and ESPN's NYE with Stu Scott and that weird dude from the Ramones, and ESPN's countdown was one second off from ABC's... weird stuff
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