Hourly beeps

[Russ Butler]

The WTIC Hartford CT hourly sounder "dah-dah-dah-dar" (Letter "V" in 
Morse Code) is still a unique, hourly audible beep in broadcasting, I 
think. 

Weren't those large old Western Electric studio clocks with the little 
red light bulb on the cream colored dial that lit up on the hour with 
the hourly beep connected to a mechanism that re-set the time each hour 
automatically? The second-hand would flick back to the 12-o'clock 
position when it was re-set with the tone signal and red light to click 
away for another hour.
 
Then there was/is the WWV National Bureau of Standards "beeps" following 
the automated announcer's time signal and the dull "ticking clock" sound 
each second for the other 59 seconds each minute.

-Russ Butler  songbook2@comcast.net

(...remember the parody "This is W W V, all time, all the time, anytime!")