CNBC broadcast on a 7 second delay

Well? Did she?

 

I don't know.... was laughing so hard I didn't hear her reply.

 

Well, I think we can safely say that whoever did hear it heard it with a 7 second delay.

 

I don't think so... probably initiated a delay afterwards.

 

Anything that goes thru a satellite is on roughly 7 second delay...
It has nothing to do with CNBC.

And virtually everything on "cable" goes thru a satellite.

Watch any sporting event...
And listen to the radio broadcast at the same time...
Only the radio is in real-time... unless it's satellite radio.

 

I understand that, but they didn't just start doing this, right?

I've been tuning into CNBC every morning before the opening bell, and I just noticed this delay yesterday.

I notice these things because I get psyched up every morning when that bell begins to ring, and I check my clock every morning. (It's a part of my daily routine. )

There wasn't a noticeable difference between the internet clock and the CNBC clock before.


Oh well, I never trade based on the "news" from CNBC anyways....

 

What's the big deal?

 

I have DirecTV and there is about a 5 second delay.

 

Any delay in Cable is pretty obvious when you watch a HD broadcast next to a regular broadcast. The HD broadcast is always a few seconds ahead of the regular broadcast. I was in a bar once watching a baseball game. It was a long bar, and one side of the bar had a HD TV, the other side had a regular TV. It was funny hearing cheers coming from one side of the bar a few seconds before the other side of the bar knew what had happened.

 

why is this?