Beep at top of the hour on WBZ disappeared

[Dave Doherty]

And the old NBC chimes were G-E-C (GE Company)...

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From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Rob Landry
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To: A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
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Subject: Re: Beep at top of the hour on WBZ disappeared




On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, A Joseph Ross wrote:

> I didn't know what "Oranges and Lemons" is, and I wondered what sound 
> the fruits might make, but I looked it up on Wikipedia and heard a recording.
> Now that I know what it is, I do remember when the BBC began using 
> that tune as an interval signal.  Later, they went back to the chorus 
> of bells that they had been using before.

The BBC had at least three different interval signals, one of them the musical notes "B", "B", "C" repeated over and over. The European non-English servicee were still using Morse "V" (for victory, presumably) in the seventies.


Rob