Broadcasting Services and Interval Signals
- BBC World Service in English: Bow Bells.
- BBC World Service in English (occasionally): Lillibullero.
- BBC World Service, non-English, non-Europe: three even notes tuned B-B-C.
- BBC World Service, non-English, to Europe: four notes tuned B-B-B-E, spaced to spell out V in morse code.
- China Radio International: chime version of 义勇军进行曲 (Yìyǒngjūn Jìnxíngqǔ, "March of the Volunteers").
- Deutsche Welle Radio: chimes from Beethoven's Fidelio.
- Radio Serbia: national anthem "Bože pravde".
- Radio Australia: chorus of Waltzing Matilda on chimes.
- Radio Berlin International: chimes version of Auferstanden aus Ruinen.
- Radio Canada International: first four notes of O Canada played on a piano.
- Radio France Internationale: electronic-disco, culminating in the last 8 measures of La Marseillaise.
- Radio Japan : 数え歌 (Kazoe-uta, "Counting song").
- Radio Habana Cuba: melody of the La Marcha del 26 de Julio ("March of the 26th of July").
- Radio Moscow (former service of the Soviet Union): chimes version of Песня о Родине ("Wide Is My Motherland") and Moscow Nights or Midnight in Moscow.
- Radio Norway International (former international shortwave service of NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation): ancient folk tune from the Hallingdal region.
- Radio Netherlands: chime version of the Eighty Years' War song Merck toch hoe sterck.
- Radio New Zealand International: the call of a New Zealand Bellbird, a distinctive sounding NZ bird species, repeated every 3 minutes.
- Radio Peking (predecessor of China Radio International): chime version of 东方红 (Dōngfāng Hóng, "The East Is Red").
- Radio Polonia: Etude for Piano No. 12 ("Revolutionary Etude") by Frederic Chopin (historic).
- Radio Prague: melody of Kupředu levá ("Forward, Left").
- Radio RAI International: bird chirping and bells sound.
- Radio Republik Indonesia: Rayuan Pulau Kelapa, composed by Ismail Marzuki.
- Radio RSA: The Voice of South Africa (former service of Apartheid-era South African Broadcasting Corporation): Afrikaner folk tune, "Ver in die Wereld, Kittie" ("Where in the world, Kitty").
- RTÉ Radio 1: O'Donnell Abú ("O'Donnell Forever").
- Radio Slovenia: the European Common Cuckoo chirping, electronically generated.
- Radio Sweden: Ut i vida världen ("Out in the Wide World"), composed by Ralph Lundsten.
- Radio Tirana: melody of With Pickaxe and Rifle.
- Vatican Radio uses the chimes of the clock in St. Peter's Square, Rome, followed by the Papal fanfare.
- Voice of America: Yankee Doodle played by a brass band.
- Voice of Korea: melody of the 김일성장군의 노래 (Kim Ilsŏng Changgunŭi Norae, "Song of General Kim Il-sung").
- Voice of Russia: chime version of "Majestic" chorus from the "Great Gate of Kiev" portion of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
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