Broadcasting Q? Announcing The Time On The Radio
On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 4:57:58 AM UTC-5, John Williamson wrote:
On 10/03/2021 00:48, Chris K-Man wrote:
I used to think that radio stations had clocks that displayed only the minutes, and not the particular hour, explaining why the time they announced was periodically one hour off, in either direction!
One notorious announcer on the BBC gave rise to what was called the
"Jack De Manio clock" in the studio he used. No hands, no numbers, no
monitor, but if you looked at it, you would read "Twenty five to eightsuffices. "
That cured him, and it would be trivial to program an Arduino or
Raepberry Pi and a small monitor.
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Tciao for Now!
John.
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That is the 'human' way of telling time, now that you mentioned it.
Who goes "three thirty-seven" when announcing the time or answering anothers inquiry as to time of day? Twenty-five or twenty til four usually suffices. My late hero of the AM band, Don Imus, almost never specified the hour, once his show reached global syndication. "Ten after the hour" or "Thirteen til the hour on the Imus In the Morning program, here's Charles with some late-breaking headlines" Is typically what you got.
The displays you mentioned can be programmed to diplay time more or less colloquially, as needs dictate
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