Re: In praise of 'steam radio'

What I'd like to know (and I apologise for still being UK-centric, and 
for perhaps drifting a little off-topic) is why the broadcast I receive 
on my super-duper ultra-sleek new DAB radio is a couple of seconds 
behind the broadcast I receive on my clapped-out old FM transistor radio?

I once read a very complicated technical explanation about how DAB 
signals work and why, therefore, they aren't in sync with analogue FM 
broadcasts, but if we are all going completely digital shouldn't all 
broadcasts be equally accurate? If I want to set my 
watch/clock/microwave/whatever by the time signal before "The World at 
One" on BBC Radio 4, shouldn't I get the DAB signal and the FM signal at 
exactly the same moment?

David

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