Funny, my original radio beeped like that, but I thought it was one of the functions of the radio that I was too lazy to read about (what is TP anyway?). But now that I think about it, my new radio (swapped out the washed out display for the new one) doesn't beep like that anymore. But I also didn't play with all the buttons on the new one...just tuned it to my fave station and mostly play CDs.