Classic CBS Radio News Sounder As A Cellphone Ringtone

[Joseph_Gallant]

CBS News has done something interesting on it's website.

You can go to http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/06/broadcasts/main20038288.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea , and download both the current (2000-present) or the classic 1983-2000 CBS News sounder used at the beginning of the network's hourly radio newscasts.

Fans of classic radio might be interested in downloading the 1980's/1990's sounder as a ringtone.

I wonder if CBS might also make available the 1968-83 hourly radio news sounder (the first to use the five notes at the beginning) as a downloadable ringtone.

I don't work for CBS or any of it's subsidiaries, but I thought this was interesting and worth sharing.

[Corky Marlowe]

The 20/20 News sounder and the Westinghouse news boom would be cool ringtones, too.

[Darth_vader]

A WAV of the "old" sounder with the "ping" is the startup sound on one of my BSD/KDE3 boxen. That brief Moog passage and the teletype/Morse effects reminds me of childhood. ;o)

What I meant was, there was a station in the Vancouver/Portland area (forget which one; might have been KXL) which used the "old" sounder up until the early 2000s. I'd also heard it after they had switched to the new "dramatic"-sounding one and it just wasn't the same.