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Re: WWV


> Rumor also has it that NIST had no intention of adding Eddie Fischer's
> recording of Any Time, David Rose's recording of 4:20 AM, or Hoerst
> Jankowski's recording of Three O'Clock in the Morning to WWV's playlist.
> People inside NIST said that management felt that these 1950's-era titles
> were no longer timely.


What a format, and what a slogan: "all _time_; _all_ the time,
all the time."

The corresponding oldies format would be "all the all-time time,
all the time."

"W-W-V <ding> the WWV chime-time is now 3:34 PM".  

The Chicago song "25 or 6 to 4" would unfortunately be too
inexact for NIST.

-_RC


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