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Severe weather chirp on WSB

BRENT said:
jabba17 said:
Cox has been doing it on their news/talker in Tulsa for a while. Annoying.
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Yes I was in Tulsa when they had the blizzard and I heard that noise as well. I kind of like it, also I heard the same kind of thing on WHAS Louisville last week, are they a cox station???
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WHAS is Clear Channel. It might have come from WAVE TV which they some times use when there is nobody in the news room.
 
DToTheJ said:
"... the listener... should continue listening for updates..."

Question: Was this "weather chirp" conjured up before the PPM era began? This sounds like a new phenomena to me, based on the comments in this thread. PPM-inspired, perhaps?
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No, I remember 1350/KRNT in Des Moines, Iowa doing it in the 70s. Of course back then, the beeps were on a three minute cart without a stop tone, running on a spare cart machine. They ran it every time there was a tornado or thunderstorm warning.
 
Neil Boortz is making fun of the chirp on his show this morning. He says when you hear this sound you should bend over and grab your ankles ;D
 
It's a useful tool to me, to remind me to pay attention and stop just leaving the radio on for no reason.

When I do, there's the annoying tone every hour or so when they repeat that promo and it totally snaps me out of whatever I am doing and I suddenly remember the radio wasting power and push the off button.

It works well. The radio stays off too. Amazing technology.

Between a WX radio and Skywarn, I don't need this cricket thing.
 
I heard the promo. That tone is a lot more annoying than the one on the Cox Tulsa newstalker, although it IS more attention-grabbing at a lower volume than the Tulsa tone. It's gonna get old by the end of tornado season. Did they focus-group the tone or are they just grab-bagging it across the Cox newstalkers nationwide to see which one people like best?

But it's not as annoying as another Just Brakes commercial.

One thing that is nice--the TOH tone on AM 750 and NOW 95.5 FM WSB, so you can set your clock. Is that tone synced to the WWV atomic clock?

WSB is still doing that after all these years, long after everyone else stopped.
 
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