[BC] Re: Time Signals

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/15/05 10:19:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:


Or  they could just take the stupid time tones off the air.  What  consultant
came up with THAT idea.  Are we not smart enough to set out  clocks and
watched to The Weather Channel anymore?

Scott  Cason



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Many stations in the world give time signals regularly.  It is not  another 
consultants gimmick or maybe it was.  WWV?
 
Have you heard the audio and promotions MP3  that was posted on this  list 
sometime back for WWV?  Very funny.   Our society is very  time oriented.   Time 
management is the secret of success of  many.  Time is valuable and cannot be 
stored,  its use can be  programmed for the better.
 
Radio Relo in Cuba runs news on many channels and has a constant seconds  
ticking in the background,  They beep every minute,  The network is  very 
popular.   Big Ben on the BBC had been a worldwide tradition on  the top of the hour. 
  CBS's  hourly time tone had been around as  long as I can remember.  WSM in 
Nashville used to run four tones, one on  the hour, the quarter hour, half 
hour and three quarter hour. All the tones were  different and you began to 
noticed time by the radio.
 
WWV and CHU are precision time and frequency standards.  Nearly every  
country has a Time & Frequency standard station.
 
The stable of radio for many years,  via all the consultants was get  people 
to work on time and push time and temperature in the mornings.
 
I don't think "stupid" is a timely description.
 
Dave