Re: Beethoven's Fifth Time Signals

[Bob Nelson <rac_cooney@yahoo.com>]

WTIC is still using it, for I've heard it during Red
Sox games, right at the top of the hour. It almost
sounds like someone hitting the buttons of a
touch-tone phone.

- ---"'A. Joseph Ross'"  wrote:
>
> There was some discussion on the Old-Time Radio mailing list about
some
> stations that used the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth
Symphony as
> the time signal at the top of the hour during World War II.
> 
> And I remembered that, back in the mid-1960s, when I was in school in
> Amherst, WTIC radio and the old WTIC-TV (Channel 3) were using the
> Beethoven's Fifth time signals. 
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