Last year was one of both celebration and uncertainty for WWV, the station adjacent to Fort Collins, Colo., that transmits automated time broadcasts on the shortwave bands. On the plus side, it marked ...

Of all the rabbit holes we technical types tend to fall down, perhaps the one with the most twists and turns is: time. Some of this is due to the curiously mysterious nature of time itself, but more ...

The world’s oldest licensed radio station, which operates from a location just north of Fort Collins, will turn 100 years old on Oct. 1. That may sound like a long time for a radio station, but WWV ...

WWV building. Read about the service by clicking the image. Here is my response to the letter to the editor “WWV Is Nice But Not All That Critical.” The letter raised an eyebrow with me. The notion of ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, an exclusive group of 100 people will be in attendance in Fort Collins, Colo., to celebrate the centennial of a radio station many individuals have never heard of. It offers no ...

Radio station WWV has stood the test of time. The federally owned and operated station, which sits amid an array of radio towers on an open, 380-acre site between Fort Collins and Wellington, is ...

President Donald Trump’s administration wants to shut down U.S. government radio stations that announce official time, a service in operation since World War II. WWV and WWVB in the state of Colorado ...

Time might be running out for America’s timekeeper. Proposed budget cuts could silence radio stations operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, north of Fort Collins ...

Many clocks sync with a government radio station that's been proposed to be closed. Scott Simon talks with Thomas Witherspoon of the website The SWLing Post. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: National Institute of ...

Every night, while millions of Americans are fast asleep, clocks and wristwatches across the country wake up and lock on to a radio signal beamed from the base of the Rocky Mountains. The signal ...

During the historic April 8 total solar eclipse, a government radio station in Colorado started sending out slightly shifted "time signals" to millions of people across the globe as the moon's shadow ...