Beep at top of the hour on WBZ disappeared

[A Joseph Ross]

And when I was a student out at UMass Amherst, I sometines noticed the 
same tone on the hour on WTIC-TV, Channel 3.

BTW, how did it happen that channel 3 in Hartford stopped being WTIC-TV 
and then later, that call ended up on a UHF channel?


On 9/26/2018 3:59 AM, Bob Nelson wrote:
> Maybe gone by now but WTIC Hartford had a morse code (or some such) 
> representation of the letter V for victory.It sounded like the first 
> four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. (Notes G, G, G, E flat.) 
> This ran at the top of the hour.
>
> WCBS New York and some CBS affiliates ran some notes that sounded like 
> dong...dong...dong...dong! then it went to the CBS News top of the 
> hour sounder. This can be heard 1 min and 9 seconds into this:
>
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc3jiAgA0rU
>
> TV networks would have a ding at the top of the hour, start of a 
> program. A website called TVParty used to have that sound when the 
> page loaded.
>
> Bob Nelson
>
> On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com 
> <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>> wrote:
>
>     It goes back earlier than the 1970s.  I remember it in the late
>     1950s or early 1960s, when I was in high school.  I had an
>     electric alarm clock which I would set to the exact top of the
>     hour -- minute and second hand on the 12 -- and hold the plug in
>     my hand near the outlet while listening to the leadup to the WBZ
>     news on the hour. As soon as I heard the tone, I'd quickly plug in
>     the clock.
>
>
>     On 9/26/2018 12:19 AM, Ron Bello wrote:
>
>         Beep at top of the hour was a creation of Norm Graham, 1970s
>         CE at BZ radio
>         Was probably left behind at 1170 SFR
>
>         There might also be an issue with timing between regular
>         analog signal and HD
>         Which tone is correctly timed ?
>
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>
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>         On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:11 AM A Joseph Ross
>         <joe@attorneyross.com <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>
>         <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com <mailto:joe@attorneyross.com>>>
>         wrote:
>
>             I think this may have been the last station to have that
>         beep on the
>             hour.  I think BBC World Service still has it, but that
>         can be a
>             second
>             or two delayed.  I guess I'll have to start setting my
>         watch by
>             either
>             my cellphone or the Windows clock.  The beep on the hour
>         has gone the
>             way of Jordan Marsh, WHDH radio, and the Red Sox talent
>         for snatching
>             defeat from the jaws of victory.
>
>             On 9/25/2018 7:06 PM, Mario Gonzalez via
>         Boston-Radio-Interest wrote:
>
>             I commute to work and we listen to WBZ on a car radio in
>         the mornings
>             and afternoons.  We used to hear the beep at the top of
>         the hour
>             but it
>             seems to have disappeared.  Even when we last heard it, it
>         seemed
>             to be
>             late, maybe 30 seconds after our cell phones changed their
>         time to
>             the
>             top of the hour.  I don't know which device was correct
>         though.
>
>             I'm not sure if WINS in New York still does the beep at
>         the top of
>             the
>             hour, but if they do, I only hear them online or on my
>         Alexa devices.
>
>             I think it used to be traffic and weather on the 3's and I
>         think it's
>             just traffic on the 3's and weather afterwards?
>
>             Mario
>             f
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