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Mutual had the chirp.
Scholar Brad said:
IIRC CBS use to have a cross between a chirp and sneaker sound during the "The World News Round Up" or what ever they called the evening 10 or 20 min. newscast too. I think one of the ABC radio networks or NBC had a two tone sounder.
not something i've thought about lately, but i thought mutual had the two-tone "boo-doop."
we had a small rack of cart machines in an engineering room at WRQK in greensboro, and we'd have to change the carts out per orders from mutual. i never knew what stations we were feeding.
anyway, i remember hearing the chirp, but i thought mutual had the "boo-doop." i ran larry king's overnight show a lot of nights on wrqk and later at wdun. and jim bohannon.
i thought it was cbs that chirped, on wbt in my memory.
we had a small rack of cart machines in an engineering room at WRQK in greensboro, and we'd have to change the carts out per orders from mutual. i never knew what stations we were feeding.
anyway, i remember hearing the chirp, but i thought mutual had the "boo-doop." i ran larry king's overnight show a lot of nights on wrqk and later at wdun. and jim bohannon.
i thought it was cbs that chirped, on wbt in my memory.
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tcsnrayp
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I recall BOTH the "boo-doop" (nice descriptor) and the chirp on Mutual. Let's call in "Westbrook Van Vorhees, MEUUU-cchual Neeews"
Mutual had the "bee-doop" ABC radio had the crickets.
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tcsnrayp
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BENGALSFAN IS RIGHT!
CBS also has a 'bong' at the top of the hour.
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tcsnrayp
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Can you please state exactly WHO at CBS is "hitting the bong"... this could be a B-I-G story.
I have documents that say Dan Rather....but they look like they may be forged.
So we had:
CBS radio: chirp, bong (same bong that the TV network used)
NBC radio: no tones, only a 10-second advance cue tone
Mutual radio: various "bee-doops" that tripped automation cues
ABC radio: 10-second advance cue tone for 1 1/2 seconds, high pitched beeps that tripped automation cues
CBS radio: chirp, bong (same bong that the TV network used)
NBC radio: no tones, only a 10-second advance cue tone
Mutual radio: various "bee-doops" that tripped automation cues
ABC radio: 10-second advance cue tone for 1 1/2 seconds, high pitched beeps that tripped automation cues
That about sums it up Richard. Did GRNS have any cut tones? It's been so long ago, I cannot remember.
Jim Gantner rigged up a pathetic tone generator — a red button on the middle of the control board — that served no purpose except to have us sound like we had technology. Truth is, our cue tones were limited to "three---two---one".
RichardWarner said:
Deep in the recesses of my dusty brain cells, I seem to recall a 3 second 440Hz tone maybe 10 seconds before the :30 and :55 feed.
Yeah, I remember back in the mid 1980's (former) Augusta CHR, 104.3 WBBQ ran ABC Contemporary News at :56 past the hour and you'd always hear 2 really high-pitched cue-tones, "I'm David Leslie, ABC Contemporary News...(beep-beep) Then, that station's ID and back into music. (Always found that any news....period sounded odd going right into, "Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood)! But, as a CHR, WBBQ ran network news like that at :56 past the hour right up to about 1987 or so.
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