Greenwich Time Signal not allow the pips to be broadcast except as a time signal. Radio plays and comedies which have fictional news programmes use various methods to avoid playing the full six pips, ranging from simply fading in the pips to a version played on "On the Hour" in which the sound was made into a small tune between the pips. "The News Quiz" also featured a special Christmas pantomime edition where the pips went missing, and the problem was avoided there by only playing individual pips and not the whole set. The 2012 project "Radio Reunited", however, did use the pips
The Signal (radio program) The Signal (radio program) The Signal is a Canadian radio program, which debuted on CBC Radio 2 on March 19, 2007 and had its final broadcast on September 2, 2017. Devoted to contemporary music and airing from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m., the program was hosted by Laurie Brown Mondays to Saturdays. The weekend version, which previously aired Friday to Sunday was hosted by Pat Carrabré until March 2009 (until this time Brown only hosted Monday to Thursday). Subsequently, Brown took over the Friday and Saturday edition of the show while the Sunday broadcast being replaced by "The Strombo Show".