There's speculation some potential elegance was lost in the bringing together of all BBC radio services to announce the death of The Duke of Edinburgh last Friday. One of the elements of communication is known as RATS, the Radio Alert Transmission System, which carries encrypted data on sound signals to BBC outposts, at the behest of the all-important Duty Operations Managers.
Did it work properly ? Did the 'far ends' get sufficient notice to create five seconds silence before they were faded out ? Hmmm.
(The acronym has previously been unofficially and tastelessly corrupted to Royal About To Snuff.)
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