Strictly

[rabet]

Watching this with subtitles onscreen. A few minutes ago Len Goodman's comments came up several seconds before he spoke them. If this is a "live" programme, how can this happen?

[woofgang]

I understand there is always a slight lag on live broadcasting in order to avoid broadcasting anything “undesireable” also there used to be a lag between digital and analogue.

[tonyav]

7 second delay apparently.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-delay-time-for-live-telecast-in-TV-channels

[Buenchico]

As well as the errors mentioned in Tony's link, the deliberate delay is put there to give the subtitling guy (or gal) time to manually correct errors in the computer-generated subtitles.

So you'll see far fewer erroneous subtitles on programmes like Strictly (where someone is paid to watch out for the errors, and to quickly correct them) than you will on, say, Sky Sports News (where it seems that that they put their trust solely in how the computer hears what's said - often with some hilarious results!).

[viv41]

Who's out tonight - anybody know ?

[woofgang]

its on the strictly thread.

[woofgang]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Media-and-TV/Question1461972.html