I always assumed that they used a recording.

A nice demonstration. I tried to measure the time difference by examining the waveforms of the left and right channels in Audacity. It's very difficult to tell, but it looks as if it's about 200 milliseconds so Vicki was probably about 70 metres away. I knew that the Radio 4 bongs were live at 6 PM - you can occasionally hear emergency vehicle sirens in the pause between the chimes and the first bong of Big Ben - but I've always wondered whether the bongs on the title sequence of ITN's News at Ten were live or a recording. I'd forgotten that the tower changed its name from St Stephen's Tower to Elizabeth Tower in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee..

I didn't realise that the bongs in the news are a live recording.

Ah Vicki I really thought that this new stuff from you. Still enjoyed it though

You used to be able to do this at baseball games, too. The radio station would have a mike right behind home plate. If you sat out in centerfield and listened to the game on the radio, you'd hear the crack of the bat on the broadcast before you'd hear it in person... which used to AMAZE ME as a kid. Sadly, this doesn't work any more, because most radio broadcasts are on a delay (typically 7 seconds).

That's so awesome! I remember during the gold medal hockey game in Canada during the Vancouver Olympics, I was listening to the radio feed as I was driving along the highway. Canada won and I honked the car all the way to an electronics store. To my amazement, almost 10 minutes after I had heard Canada win, the TV feed was broadcasting the game 'live' and I saw them win again 'live'. With the number of people in the store watching the feed, since it is Canada's game, I should've made a bet with someone on who would score. lol

She looks like a really fun person to hang out with

Nice to see Vicki again!

Everybody loves Vicki!

This was a plot device in a Captain Scarlet episode, wasn't it? That if you're a certain distance away you can hear thirteen chimes at midnight.

westminister bridge the brige of the tragic area attack R.I.P the victims and bigben's threts

That's the tree I planted in the speakers garden, it's the bigger one!!

It will also depend on the route the sound takes to get from Westminster to Wrotham Heath in Kent in this case, I suspect it is via a high speed ISDN line of some kind, but there will be a slight delay in the sound reaching the transmitter.

We have a simalare radio tradition here in denmark with the big radio station.

Digital TV has an even greater delay due to the time taken to encode & decode the digital signal. At New Year I can see the London Fireworks from my house - you can see them start a few seconds before the chimes of Big Ben sound from the TV speaker. Hence large parts of the UK probably start the New Year a few secons late !

Well, I'll have to take your word for it.

wow. might try this. though I won't carry a huge radio with me haha

Now, throw in the chimes on a DAB radio and on radio on a digital TV and we'll probably have four different timings - or more if you allow for variations in digital chipsets from different manufacturers. It's a fun world!

But ever since 2017 when restoration started they used a recording but I don’t understand why they can’t record the chimes live now because Big Ben is working again so there’s no reason for them to use the microphone

How about testing the theory that you can hear Big Ben strike 13. To do this you need to be at a distance from the tower so that you hear the first bong via a radio, then the second bong on the radio at the same time that the first bong arrives via the air live from the the tower. Thus when you hear the twelfth bong over the radio you are hearing the eleventh bong from the tower and finally the last twelfth bong over the air equaling a total of thirteen bongs. I think I remember seeing this in a film once but memory fails me as to which film.

Why can't we see more Vicki videos?

infact this was used in the classic gerry anderson seires Captain scarlet.

Wow! Talk about short and sweet! Hardly gave you time to work it out. Unedited version please!

BUM BAM BUM BAM BEM BOM BAM BEM BOM BOOM BEM BOMMMM!! BOOOOOOM BOOOOOOM BOOOOM BOOOOOOM

Is it possible to sing a song then travel faster than sound and then stop and listen to the song you sang?

That was used in an episode of Captain Scarlet!

That's really good thumbs up

THAT IS SO COOL!!!

Do the BBC not bother with this anymore now that the bell doesn't ring

When is Vicki going to present a new video?

Oh my Favourite

It's sad that Big Ben is going silent

Isn't she the one that did Harry Potter locations. If not very similar.

I didn't understand the last bit; can you hear it on the radio first or not?

Like it.

Big Ben will be silenced until 2021

If you listen on DAB radio, it will be delayed for about 10 seconds.

Case closed!

It’s a BBC sound effect found on their Essential Sound Effects CD on iTunes. That’s the reason for the delay on the BBC Radio 4, other examples are found on Radio 4 with Brian Perkins announcing over the real chimes, where there’s no delay.

I like that

Did she say “firster” ?

I thought it was a recording

omg that's so cool!

OI M8 ITS 7 BONG

She is dabbing

cool :)

Not it doesn’t chime at all

Are you sure that's an FM radio? It looked like a digital radio to me. It might not work so well as there is a split second encoding delay for digital broadcasts compared to analog broadcasts.

Xd

I miss hearing those words "president obama"