Browngate: Sky TV admits 10 second delay in "live" broadcast

[Northerner]

Sky TV admits to delaying their televised Political debate with the three main political leaders in a leaked memo. The leaked memo expressed fears that Gordon Brown might forget his place and use common swear words live on national television.

Gordon Brown has called this a smear from News International, owned my Rupert Murdoch. Saying, "this would be just the sort of thing those bast**ds would do".

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[KeithD]

So he did swear .... well it was delayed for all 3 of them then so made no difference .... besides... you get a 4-5 seconds natural delay on Sky

[somebody]

Gonna say they always have a delay not sure about ten seconds but more to edit out as best they can any visual or audio performance flaws so I have been told by people who work in TV.

[walesrob]

Having worked in radio myself, I'm aware that most broadcasters use a delay, so its not really news.

[KeithD]

So basically this is news about delayed news which is no news?

[IainBusby]

So he did swear .... well it was delayed for all 3 of them then so made no difference .... besides... you get a 4-5 seconds natural delay on Sky

"this would be just the sort of thing those bast**ds would do".

Do you really believe that Sky would have used that delay function to stop it going out on air if Gordon Brown had used swear words..... or do you think that just maybe, some lowly technician (scapegoat) might have conveniently forgot to press the button to stop it going out.

[somebody]

Do you really believe that Sky would have used that delay function to stop it going out on air if Gordon Brown had used swear words..... or do you think that just maybe, some lowly technician (scapegoat) might have conveniently forgot to press the button to stop it going out.

Im more worried about our primeminster not being able to keep calm under pressure than the possbilty of fox news getting a scoop.

Fox news and Labour (and camerons bunch) deserve one another, both parties love the media/spin and then complain when the media realise the power they have and start messing with them

[Dedworth]

Gordon Brown has called this a smear from News International, owned my Rupert Murdoch. Saying, "this would be just the sort of thing those bast**ds would do".

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Any excuse in the book will do for Bottler, there's always someone else to blame