It has to be six seconds

Private radio In the summer, Radio Munot receives Radiocontrol data for the first time - but the news time announcements are now inaccurate For a good two years, the Radiocontrol clock has been measuring the use of private and public radio stations - but until now there has been no data for Radio Munot. This is because the Schaffhausen local radio station has been taking over the news from Radio DRS 1 and its night program at the same time for years. However, because the Radiocontrol system cannot always identify the station that the listener is actually tuned into when identical content is broadcast at the same time, no clear data could be identified for Munot. This had consequences for the private station: Munot was removed from the pools, or at least was no longer a desired partner, not least due to a lack of listener numbers. However, it was not solved by the SRG research service, but by Munot itself: A so-called audio delay device installed at Munot delays the broadcast of the DRS program parts by six seconds. This time difference to Radio DRS is sufficient for Radiocontrol to correctly assign listeners. Munot Managing Director Walter Studer comments: "We want to appear in the national ratings again."
But this solution is not without its drawbacks: The time announcements made by the DRS newsreaders are now imprecise on Munot because they are broadcast with a six-second delay. This small inaccuracy is accepted in Schaffhausen, but Studer is not entirely satisfied. "The radio clock has various problems. However, the problem of program transfer is likely to become a sticking point internationally. In the long term, it is unacceptable that a station has to broadcast its program with a time delay because the measurement method is unsuitable," he criticizes.
Markus Knöpfli