Celebrations of WWV's centennial include a five-day event featuring amateur radio operators communicating with others around the world.

Even today, WWV and WWVH’s standard time broadcasts and frequencies are a great help for engineers calibrating equipment.

SIMON: WWV is the oldest continuously operating radio station in the United States. It's been on the air since 1920. It's signal provides a frequency standard for receivers.

In 1919, on that date, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) radio station WWV signed on the air doing pretty much what it does today. It’s time was almost up. Now, it’s still ...

Radio station WWV to celebrate 100 years Station north of Fort Collins broadcasts the national time standard and sets radio frequency standards ...

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.

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.

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.