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

[David Jones]

Time is: TI4-2525 or 844-2525.  The area code can be 202, 301, 410, or 703.

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