{"id":40457,"date":"2019-11-05T06:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40457"},"modified":"2019-11-05T06:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:48:13","slug":"canada-national-research-council-official-time-signal-turns-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/canada-national-research-council-official-time-signal-turns-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: National Research Council official time signal turns 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40458\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Clock-Watch-Time.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40458\" class=\"size-large wp-image-40458\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Clock-Watch-Time-1024x681.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Clock-Watch-Time-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Clock-Watch-Time-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Clock-Watch-Time-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Clock-Watch-Time-624x415.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Clock-Watch-Time.jpeg 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit: @chuttersnap)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/day6\/california-wildfires-impeach-o-meter-sarah-connor-hallmark-movies-canada-s-time-signal-turns-80-and-more-1.5341042\/the-beginning-of-the-long-dash-happy-80th-anniversary-to-cbc-radio-s-longest-running-segment-1.5341058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC<\/a> via William Lee)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/caffeine\/syndicate\/?mediaId=1633861699943\" width=\"720\" height=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 1930s, it helped sailors properly set their instruments for navigation.<\/p>\n<p>It allowed railway companies to be punctual, and helped Canadians set their watches with precision\u00a0every day.<\/p>\n<p>Today, if you&#8217;re a CBC Radio aficionado, you may recognize its repeated beeps over the airwaves every day just before 1 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<section id=\"inread-wrapper-id-9\"><\/section>\n<p>To many, the National Research Council official time signal is<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>a fixture of Canadian society. And on Nov. 5, the longest running segment on CBC Radio turns 80 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/day6\"><em><u>Day 6<\/u><\/em><\/a> host Brent Bambury spoke with Laurence Wall, one of the current voices of the National Research Council time signal, about its origins, its importance, and where it stands in the digital age.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/day6\/california-wildfires-impeach-o-meter-sarah-connor-hallmark-movies-canada-s-time-signal-turns-80-and-more-1.5341042\/the-beginning-of-the-long-dash-happy-80th-anniversary-to-cbc-radio-s-longest-running-segment-1.5341058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article and listen to the interview and audio clips.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: CBC via William Lee) In the 1930s, it helped sailors properly set their instruments for navigation. It allowed railway companies to be punctual, and helped Canadians set their watches with precision\u00a0every day. Today, if you&#8217;re a CBC Radio aficionado, you may recognize its repeated beeps over the airwaves every day just before 1 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,29,8113,1714,6422],"class_list":["post-40457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-national-research-council","tag-time-stations","tag-william-lee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-awx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46789,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/radio-waves-more-cuts-to-radio-canada-international-rci-action-comments-end-of-radio-disney-changes-to-german-phonetic-alphabet-and-is-fm-more-efficient-than-dab\/","url_meta":{"origin":40457,"position":0},"title":"Radio Waves: More Cuts to Radio Canada International, RCI Action Comments, End of Radio Disney, Changes to German Phonetic Alphabet and Is FM More Efficient than DAB?","author":"Thomas","date":"December 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0readers.\u00a0 To that end:\u00a0Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_1956.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_1956.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_1956.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_1956.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23310,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hello-finland-this-is-vancouver-calling\/","url_meta":{"origin":40457,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;Hello Finland, this is Vancouver calling&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, William Lee, who shares the following story from the CBC: Hello, Finland, this is Vancouver calling: radio fans listen to CBC from 6,700 km away When people in other parts of the world tune in to CBC Radio in Vancouver, they usually do it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Globe-Finland-DX-Canada-Greenland-Arctic.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Globe-Finland-DX-Canada-Greenland-Arctic.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Globe-Finland-DX-Canada-Greenland-Arctic.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Globe-Finland-DX-Canada-Greenland-Arctic.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5794,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/radio-canada-internationals-first-broadcast-68-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":40457,"position":2},"title":"Radio Canada International&#8217;s first broadcast 68 years ago","author":"Thomas","date":"February 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: RCI Action) Canada\u2019s international radio service started officially on February 25, 1945 with an address by Canada\u2019s Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, followed by Justice Minister Louis St-Laurent (in French) and then by Howard B. 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