that horrible BEEP

[Dan.Strassberg]

I believe that those "blips" were (barely) audible cues from a system
that CBS installed at the radio network in (I think) the '50s and
continued to use for decades thereafter. It was called NetAlert. If
I'm not mistaken, I first heard NetAlert cues on WROW Albany after it
replaced WTRY Troy as the CBS affiliate in New York's Capital
District. That would have been while I was in college around 1953 or
so.

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Subject: Re: that horrible BEEP


Well, I meant the blip heard when they went to a commercial (network
radio news)--which also could
be a series of two two-tone messages (musical notes, approximately:
E-C...D-B...
But yes there is the TOH "bong" before the network radio news on
CBS...
the "ding" I referred to was on TV, especially in prime time.

Example, from 1970s:
Saturday 9 pm (IIRC)
--Slide for Ch 7 Boston
--Ding!
--Start of theme song for "Maude"