Can't turn off hourly time announcements

Here's a weird issue. Since the 10.9 upgrade I get the hourly time announcements, but the option is unchecked in Date and Time Preferences. Starting to get annoying. Curious id anyone else has this issue or has reported it to Apple.

i have the same issue.  really frustrating :/

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