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	Greenwich Time Signal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Greenwich Time Signal or BBC pips is a time code heard on some BBC radio programmes at the start of the hour, most notably on Radio 4 and the World Service.
		Each pip is a 1 k Hz tone which, for the five leading pips, lasts a tenth of a second, while the final pip lasts half a second.
		The pips have been broadcast since February 5, 1924, and were the idea of the Astronomer Royal Sir Frank Watson Dyson and head of the BBC John Reith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GTS (542 words)

	BBC Pips: Definition and links.
		The BBC pips is a time code broadcast by the BBC in the UK on Radio 4 at the start of the hour.
		Offically called the Greenwich Time Signal, the pips have been broadcast since 1942, and were the idea of the astronomer royal[?] Sir Frank Dyson[?] and head of the BBC John Reith[?].
		The pips were originally controlled by two mechanical clocks located in the Royal Greenwich Observatory that had electrical contacts attatched to the pendulums.
	www.encyclopedian.com /gr/Greenwich-Time-Signal.html (347 words)

	BBC World Service
		The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 43 languages to around 150 million people throughout the world.
		Unlike the BBC 's main radio and television services, which are primarily funded by a licence fee, the World Service is funded by the British Government, although it remains politically neutral.
		The interval signal of the BBC World Service in English is the sound of the Bow Bells of London.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bb/bbc_world_service.html (688 words)

	BBC Pips Definition / BBC Pips Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		BBC pips is a time code heard on some BBC radio programs at the start of the hour, most notably on Radio 4 and the World Service.
		BBC pips is a time code heard on some BBC radio programs at the start of the hour, most notably.
		BBC pips is a time code A time code is a sequence of numeric codes generated at regular intervals by a timing system.
	www.elresearch.com /BBC_Pips (393 words)

	Winamp Generated PlayList (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sherlock Holmes (BBC) - 1959 - 59-08-11 The Copper Beeches -
		Sherlock Holmes (BBC) - 1961 - 61-08-05 The Hound of the Baskervilles -
		Sherlock Holmes (BBC) - 1961 - 61-12-04 The Reigate Squire -
	home.sprintmail.com /~kirstein/OTR/Holmes_BBC.htm (673 words)

	BBC Radio 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radio 2 is one of the BBC 's national radio stations and is the most popular station in the UK.
		Being a BBC station, it is funded by the television licence fee, and does not broadcast commercials.
		On this station, the BBC Pips are only broadcast at 06:00 transposed over the Radio 2 news jingle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_Radio_2 (660 words)

	BBC Parliament Definition / BBC Parliament Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		BBC Parliament is a British television channel from the BBC.
		BBC Parliament is the channel dedicated to detailed coverage of Parliament and Politics.
		BBC Parliament is the only UK channel dedicated to the coverage of politics.
	www.elresearch.com /BBC_Parliament (136 words)

	networked_performance: John Cage's 4'33" Revisited
		The BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a performance of composer John Cage's seminal piece 4'33", which does not contain a single note.
		TV viewers were also able to watch the event when BBC Four broadcast the concert, which also featured works that music lovers could hear.
		BBC Symphony Orchestra general manager Paul Hughes of the 1952 premiere.
	www.turbulence.org /blog/archives/000746.html (411 words)

	The Greenwich Time Signal
		When the BBC was just 1 day old, a suggestion came from Marconi's research department that a time signal "under direct control of the Greenwich Observatory" might be useful, but no action appears to have been taken on the idea.
		Even though the pips are generated to a very high degree of accuracy, the transmitted signal takes a finite time to travel from Broadcasting House to a transmitter, and then from the transmitter to the radio.
		The BBC had been advised that the leap pip should be broadcast at midnight, without any qualification as to whether it should have been GMT or BST - calls were made to two authorities to check which it should be.
	www.miketodd.net /other/gts.htm (2180 words)

	Encyclopedia: Radio Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Radio 2 is one of the BBC 's national radio stations.
		The station does offer many musical documentaries and celebrity interviews and, up until the advent of Radio Five Live, was the BBC's main radio outlet for sports coverage (before becoming Five Live, Radio 5 was originally created by splitting off Radio 2's mediumwave frequencies, leaving Radio 2 on FM only).
		On this station, the BBC Pips are only broadcast at 6:00 transposed over the Radio 2 news jingle.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Radio-Two (570 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| ITV pips BBC in corset wars
		Early viewing figures show the first episode of the Dickens adaptation averaged 8.4m viewers to BBC One's 7.2m when the rival shows were broadcast on Sunday.
		But the BBC is confident that ratings for Wives and Daughters will match Oliver Twist after its drama is repeated later this week.
		Michael Gambon and Francesca Annis star in the BBC's adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskill novel, Wives and Daughters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/542005.stm (271 words)

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		The BBC produced a number of short series, unlike the shows in the US, where they were produced as long-running series.
		Although this was their last live performance, the BBC repeated some shows in the UK, some aired on the BBC World Service, some were made available via transcription and some were offered for sale on tape to the public.
		In addition, the BBC offers some on tape that are slightly different from the versions that they aired.
	www.old-time.com /otrlogs2/shh.log.txt (1398 words)

	Robert the Brute - www.ezboard.com
		The BBC says it established the existence of the camps during covert filming in Zimbabwe, discovering thousands of youngsters each year being trained to kill in the name of the ruling Zanu-PF party.
		The BBC said it seemed that for many camp members the training began with their rape.
		The BBC said it had put the allegations to Zimbabwe's government but so far politicians had refused to respond.
	p080.ezboard.com /f1lifefrm1.showMessage?topicID=2369.topic (615 words)

	BBC Pips.html - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_Pips.html (103 words)

	BBC pips
		On the 75th anniversary of the first broadcast of the six-pip Greenwich Time Signal by the BBC, the Royal Observatory displayed for the first time in public, the time pieces which produced the six pips for their first broadcast in 1924.
		The six-pip Time Signal (pips for seconds 55,56,57,58,59,00) was Dyson's brainchild, devised in discussion with Frank Hope-Jones, inventor of the free pendulum clock, who had originally advocated a five-pip signal.
		Since then the BBC has originated its own pips based on signals from the GPS satellite network and from the 60kHz radio transmitter at Rugby, operated by BT Aeronautical and Maritime under contract to the National Physical Laboratory.
	greenwichmeantime.com /info/bbc-pips.htm (464 words)

	Radio 2 [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Being a BBC station, it is funded by the television licence A television licence is an official licence required in some countries for all owners of a television receiver.
		For several years (1984-87) she presented a mid-evening show, a precursor of the later shows of Steve Lamacq and Zane Lowe, playing a wide range of music (especially of the indie-rock genre) and including a number of features including a weekly "diary" by John Walters, who at the time was John Peel's producer.
		She began her career at BBC Radio 2 in the 1970s, and then became famous as the host of Game For A Laugh on ITV for several years from 1981.
	www.wikimirror.com /Radio_2 (2616 words)

	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005
		The BBC has started working on a major attempt to improve the metadata surrounding its programming output for two main purposes: to better represent programming on the Web and to get ready for the upcoming on-demand environment of media consumption.
		Using the BBC's SMEF (Standard Media Exchange Framework) data-model as the basis for its structure, the PIPs project aims to be a central repository of program information for the BBC--hooking together systems as diverse as programming commissioning databases, EPG feeds, audio- and video-playout systems, and audience databases.
		The first implementation of the PIPs system has been the creation of a new web site for BBC Radio 3, which has the individual episode at its heart and includes new ways of navigating to programming through schedules.
	conferences.oreillynet.com /cs/et2005/view/e_sess/5989 (243 words)

	Digital Spy Forums - Time Pips
		BBC radio 2 Is hopeless at actually having the news at the right time, where a lot of comercial stations share news services, (especaiily out of hours) they have to opt in at the correct time, no option of having the news at 1 min past the hour.
		The "pips" are just a modulated form of the final five, and first pulse on the hour of an internationally recognise time signal.
		BBC radio 2 Is hopeless at actually having the news at the right time...
	forum.digitalspy.co.uk /board/showthread.php?t=122047 (1925 words)

	Neowin.net > beep beep beeeeeep
		They are called "the bbc pips" because before everyone could afford accurate clocks, people needed a way of telling the time acuratly.
		The &#39;pips'; come from an atomic clock in the basement of BBC Broadcasting House which is fed directly from greenwitch meridian time observitary.
		It is an age old tradition and if the bbc news reader (the pips always come before the news) talks over or "crashes the pips" it is considered VERY VERY bad practice.
	www.neowin.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t183096.html (382 words)

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		LESOTHO BBC Relay, Lancer's Gap, NOV 4 0040 [BD].
		CYPRUS BBC Relay, Zyyi, NOV 16 0300 - Sign-on with Lillybolero, pips, BBC news in EE by woman, // 6195, 9410, 11760 [JR].
		NOV 11 0932-0948 - Celeste IS, time pips* at 0933 (obviously a few minutes behind today!), choir, news at 0935, theme from "The Sting" at 0945, fading by 0948; poor [JF].
	www.dobe.com /wts/funk/Nfdx96.txt (23676 words)

	Lords Hansard text for 11 Jun 1997 (170611-10)
		The BBC "pips" on the radio, or the speaking clock service provided by BT, do not transmit GMT, but co-ordinated universal time, or, as it is more generally known, UTC.
		Noble Lords should remember that there were no BBC pips in those days; indeed, one had to go out to one's sundial and calculate whether the sun was fast or slow and then check one's clock accordingly.
		This time signal is then used in turn to set the BBC "pips", British Telecom's speaking clock, the digital clocks on railway platforms and, indeed, the Great Clock at Westminster.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199798/ldhansrd/vo970611/text/70611-10.htm (5918 words)

	Signal
		Greenwich Time Signal The Greenwich Time Signal or BBC pips is a World Service.
		There are six pips (short beeps) in tota...
		International maritime signal flags The system of international maritime signal flags is a way of representing individua...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/signal.html (1107 words)

	Foreign Correspondents' Club Hong Kong - The Correspondent - Aug-Sep 02
		I have this enduring picture of my saintly dad warming his rear-end at the roaring log fire and consulting a turnip-sized pocket watch every time the BBC time signal was broadcast, and snorting invariably: “Damn pips late again!”
		The RTHK pips were a good two seconds ahead of the BBC’s signal.
		Yes I know that the BBC pips have to travel further, but on a radio frequency that would take a lot less than two seconds.
	www.fcchk.org /correspondent/corro-aug02/prisoner.htm (581 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Arts Report
		Our reporter Andrew Hosken has been tracing the history of the pips from documents in the BBC archives.
		The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites
		You will receive 3 text messages (which is how you will be billed) along with your ringtone through a WAP push.
	bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/reports/arts/rednose_ringtones_20050307.shtml (282 words)

	BBC SPORT \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Duffus pips Archibald for big prize
		With the top men all having dropped out earlier in the six-lap race, it was left to local men Richard Britton and Archibald to fight it out with the Scotsman.
		Britton had started the final lap ahead, but at the end was relegated to third place on the podium as Duffus pipped Archibald by a wheel.
		With the weather drying out following very wet conditions at the start of the day, slicks were finally engaged and the race proved to be the quickest of the day by far.
	newssearch.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/northern_ireland/1995872.stm (325 words)

	RASNZ Occultation Section - Timebase Information
		One has to be careful with time pip source ;-) I confess to writing all the software for the BBC World Service audio equipment in Auckland.
		I take the BBC off a satellite dish (already delayed by 2 or 3 geostationary satellite hops) digitise the audio and save into memory.
		However there was no doubt that the minute pip was about 2s early compared with the GPS clock.
	occsec.wellington.net.nz /videotime/timebase.htm (2533 words)

	Media UK - The Knowledge - BBC Radio 2
		See the Media UK directory entry for BBC Radio 2
		The station started at 7.00am on 30th September 1967, and succeeded the Light Programme, with some of the Light's music shows transferring to the newly-launched Radio 1.
		There is usually a mix of music and discussion of topical issues in the weekday lunchtime show.
	www.mediauk.com /the_knowledge/i.muk/BBC_Radio_2 (608 words)

	NEWFOUNDLAND DXPEDITION IX
		This is a garbage log to say that frequent monitoring of this frequency failed to unearth any hint of Gambia [JB].
		BBC World Service ID and time pips at 0800, BBC news; best on Brazilian wire; fair [JF].
		BBC de Londres desde Buenos Aires, Argentina", easy-listening instrumental piano music, another ID at 0157 then into more music through the top of the hour; fair with QRM from WRMC [JF].
	www.geocities.com /MarkWA1ION/nfdx2000.htm (19015 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| Skelton pips O'Connor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Skelton on Arko III pipped Ireland's Olympic gold medallist Cian O'Connor by just under a second in the jump-off.
		O'Connor had raced into the lead on his seven-year-old mare Echo Beach with a time of 25.61 seconds but Skelton took the honours in a time of 24.94.
		The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites
	newswm.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/other_sports/4068319.stm (138 words)

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