John asks…Why Do Long Distance Televised Interviews Have A Long Delay?Why do interviews that occur on television, most often seen in morning news shows, include a long delay between the response of the interviewee and the point at which the question was asked? Certainly, the technology must exist to find a way to avoid this delay! Couldn't an earpiece be given to interviewees with the interviewer's voice being broadcast through phone lines?
In Rod Blagovich's recent interview on The View,