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Re: [IRCA] Celsius - was - CFRB-1010
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] Celsius - was - CFRB-1010
- From: Michael Hawkins <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:42:15 -0800 (PST)
I'm waiting to see the clock and calendar converted to metric. That would be very entertaining!
btaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: When I worked at CFNB from 1980 to 1985, the legendary Jack Fenety, station manager, insisted that all of the on-air staff use BOTH F and C for temperature readings. We had a chart to use, but my memorization of the conversions remains to this day, and I can do -40 to +40 C, or -40 to +105 F, from memory.
Now I just need a good way to remember my wedding anniversary.
Brent Taylor
ex-CFNB
Doaktown, NB
>
> From: Scott Fybush
> Date: 2007/02/02 Fri AM 12:39:59 EST
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Celsius - was - CFRB-1010
> Not that I've heard in a very long time. A handful of stations that
> serve the border areas will still do double temperature announcements
> ("Minus 4 in Toronto, that's 24 Fahrenheit"), but for the most part,
> Canada's fully converted over to Celsius, and most of the Canadians I
> know have a hard time even thinking in Fahrenheit these days.
>
> Minus 4 would indeed be about 24 F, which is about right where we were
> last night here in Rochester, too.
>
> s
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