[Scan-DC] Off-topic, Verizon to end time and weather services

[Andrew Clegg]

Still works. Had to listen to an ad for a traffic lawyer first though. The 
time was exactly 1 hour off, too. They need to fix that.

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From: <ehoehn at earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:31 PM
To: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>; <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC]Off-topic, Verizon to end time and weather services

> What is the number here.  In St. Louis it was 314-321-2522.  Not sure if 
> that one is still there.
>
> Eric
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 12:17 am
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Off-topic, Verizon to end time and weather services
> To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>
>
> Wayll, I happened to call the Verizon weather line this morning, and the 
> forecast was preceded by a message stating that effective June 1 they will 
> be discontinuing their time and weather services.  So ends an era - "the 
> phone company" has been doing that as long as I can remember, and 
> that's... well, at least fifty years.
>
> I wonder why...
>
> For some reason I thought the list might be interested in this, I guess 
> because it's communications-related, although not radio...
>
> Sad, in a way... all of the businesses around here that many of us grew up 
> with (in this case C&P Telephone), and that I always thought of almost as 
> friends have either disappeared or have turned into faceless giant evil 
> empires.  :(
>
> I'd be happy to reminisce either privately, or on the list, if it won't P 
> people off... would also be interested in a discussion of whether the 
> breakup of the Bell System was a good thing or not...
>
> This is meteorologist Alex Bell, signing off.  Farewell to The Time Lady, 
> thank you for calling, welcome to Verizon, bend over, and have a great 
> life.  :(
>
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