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Scheduled shows can now start on time. Schedule > Timetable > At a boundary > Start shows on time,
which is off until you turn it on.When a block on the schedule starts, the record already playing is left to finish, and that has not
changed. What was missing was a limit: a seventeen-minute record playing at the top of the hour meant
the new show started at seventeen minutes past. Turn this on and a record from the programme that
just ended that is still playing a set number of minutes into the new block (five unless you change
it) is cut, the same way the Skip button cuts, so the show starts close to when the timetable says.
Most records end well inside five minutes, so it is only ever the long ones.Only the schedule's own changeovers are affected. A programme you put on by hand always lets the
record finish, and so does a changeover that happens late in a block (when a hold runs out, say):
the record is never counted as overrunning for longer than it has actually been playing. Each cut is
written to the activity feed, naming the record and the show it was holding up. -
Measuring records no longer makes the stream fall behind.
The analyzer that works out where each record starts and ends and how loud it is now runs at a
lower priority than the audio chain. On a busy machine the two used to compete as equals, and while
a batch of records was being measured the broadcast could fall seconds behind real time; once, by
26 seconds. Measuring now waits for the stream instead of the other way round. Nothing changes on a
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A presenter no longer says the same thing twice in one show.
The station already shows the model the last few things it said and asks it not to reuse them, and
now it checks. A talk break or a welcome that repeats a long stretch of an earlier break word for
word (the same anecdote told again, the same intro read out a second time, a line turned into a
habit) is sent back once to be said differently, and the ordinary phrasings air if the second try
repeats itself too.Only long stretches count. The time, the station's name and a record's title come round again all
the time and are left alone. News, weather and This Day are left alone too: when they repeat
themselves it is because the headline or the conditions are the same, and saying them differently
would not change that.The reason shows up in the script history as "said again, word for word, a long stretch of something
the station said a few breaks ago".