Best Time & Temp Announcement

Time & Temperature by Frost Bank

Austin is fortunate to have not one, not two, but three operating Time & Temperature dial-up phone services. While all three provide essential information in a pleasant and competent manner, we give the special wink and nod to our favorite one offered as a service by Frost Bank - one we hope they continue to sponsor for years to come. Frost's bouncy, perky announcer makes us doubletake every time. We think she sounds just like Betty White as "Happy Homemaker" Sue Ellen Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Turns out, the voice we've grown to love belongs to Florida native Jane Barbe, who has worked for over 25 years nationally as a voice-over artist and more specifically as a well-recognized "Time & Temperature Lady." Her voice is on many a Bell System recording, as well as on the National Bureau of Standards Shortwave Radio (WWV) Time Signal. Her patter on our Austin time service is the same everytime, except where the relevant data changes: She tells us that this line receives 5,000-8,000 calls daily, gives the exact time of day, and throws in the temperature for good measure. We're just waiting for the day when she slips in some lacivious Sue Ellen one-liner, like, "I know a hundred ways to turn a party into a real affair!"

Frost Bank
401 Congress, 512/473-4343
www.frostbank.com