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Characteristic sound used in broadcasting
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Historical interval signal of the BBC
RAVAG interval signal, clock ticking 270/min (9 in 2 sec)

An interval signal, or tuning signal, is a characteristic sound or musical phrase used in international broadcasting, numbers stations, and by some domestic broadcasters, played before commencement or during breaks in transmission, but most commonly between programs in different languages.

It serves several purposes:

  • It helps a listener using a radio with an analog tuner to find the correct frequency.
  • It informs other stations that the frequency is in use.
  • It serves as a station identifier even if the language used in the subsequent broadcast is not one the listener understands.

The practice began in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s and was carried over into shortwave broadcasts. The use of interval signals has declined with the advent of digital tuning systems, but has not vanished. Interval signals were not required on commercial channels in the United States, where jingles were used as identification.

List of interval signals by station

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  •  China:
Interval signal for China National Radio and China Radio International
Interval signal for Voice of the Strait
Interval signal for All India Radio
  • "Kazoe-uta" (数え歌, counting-out game).
  • "Sakura Sakura" (さくらさくら, cherry blossoms).
Interval signal for Voice of Mongolia
  •  Philippines:
  • Radio Mayak: Vibraphone version of Moscow Nights.
  • Radio Sakha: Excerpt from a Yakut folk song.
  • English programme: "Bow Bells".
  • Non-English programme, non-Europe: "Lillibullero", three notes tuned B–B–C.
  • Non-English programme, to Europe: four notes tuned B–B–B–E.
  •  United States:
Interval signal for NBC

Formerly used

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  • Albania Radio Tirana: Këputa një gjethe dafine (transmission intro) and the trumpet version of With Pickaxe and Rifle.
  • Trumpet version of Kupředu levá ("Forward, Left") by Jan Seidl
[画像:{\key g \major d''8 e'' fis''4 d'' gis'' fis'' \skip2.}]
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
  •  East Germany
Interval signal for Radio NTS
Interval signal for DFS 904
  • Hungary Radio Budapest: Excerpts from the suite 1848 by T.K. Polgar played on three trumpets and two cornets.
  •  Netherlands
  •  Norway
  •  Poland
Radio Moscow

Classical radio station WQXR-FM in New York City, during its ownership by The New York Times Company, played different variations of a classical infused gong with the ID read at the same time as "The Classical Station of the New York Times, WQXR, New York (And WQXR.com 2000–2009) [citation needed ]

Numbers station interval signals

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Numbers stations are often named after their interval signals, such as The Lincolnshire Poacher or Magnetic Fields after "Magnetic Fields Part 1" by Jean-Michel Jarre.

References

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  1. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: stephensen (2009年10月19日). "Pausesignal" . Retrieved 2020年04月02日 – via YouTube.
  2. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Ο τσομπανάκος σήμα ΕΡΤ). YouTube .
  3. ^ Tuning into broadcast history. The Hindu BusinessLine, 15 October 2015.
  4. ^ "'O'Donnell Abú'". RTÉ.ie .
  5. ^ "Pausenzeichen und ihre musikalischen Quellen". 8 October 2007.
  6. ^ a b c d Frost, Jens Mathiesen (1983). World Radio TV Handbook. New York: Billboard Publications.
  7. ^ Treiber, Alfred (2007). Ö1 gehört gehört : die kommentierte Erfolgsgeschichte eines Radiosenders (in German). Vienna: Böhlau. p. 218. ISBN 978-3-205-77495-2. OCLC 127107294.
  8. ^ "Radion väliaikamerkki". yle.fi. 4 July 2008.
  9. ^ "kalter-krieg-im-radio.de". www.kalter-krieg-im-radio.de.
  10. ^ nl:Pauzeteken
  11. ^ http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Articles/The_Interval_Signal.pdf [bare URL PDF ]
  12. ^ "- YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  13. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: RADIO INTERVAL SIGNALS - "Radio Polonia". YouTube .
  14. ^ "DX Listening Digest 7-043".
  15. ^ Radio Sweden interval signal Retrieved 2011年11月24日.
  16. ^ BBC World Service (Europe) interval signal Retrieved 2013年10月09日.
  17. ^ "Top deset pjesama o Titu". vijesti.ba.

Further reading

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  • Sennitt, Andrew G. (1997). World Radio and Television Handbook 1997. Billboard Books. p. 560. ISBN 0-8230-7797-7.
  • Sennitt, Andrew G.; David Bobbitt (December 2005). World Radio and Television Handbook 2006. Billboard Books. p. 608. ISBN 0-8230-7798-5.
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