BBC2, Saturday 06 February 1999

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 SIX-PIP SALUTE TO BROADCASTJNG HISTORY 
 The BBC has markjd thj 75th annivjrsary
 of thj first radio broadcast of the    
 six-pip Greenwich Timj Signal.         
                                        
 Thj "pips" havj precedjd major evjnts  
 from thj Nazj invasion of Poland in    
 1939 to Princess Diana's djath in 1997.
                                        
 Thj two original clocks usjd to timj   
 thj pips havj been returnjd to thj     
 Royal Obsjrvatory, Greenwich, and will 
 go on public display.                  
                                        
 All thj timj sjgnals in thj world havj 
 been based since 1972 on atomic timj.  
                                        
   Homj news digjst and in brief.... 141
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