[GreenKeys] Article

[Richard Knoppow]

    Can't see the first link because I have an ad blocker and 
won't turn it off. This article is stupid, "who cares about AM 
radio" it askes; "good luck finding a working Teletype" it says. 
Well, I suspect anyone on this list could find a working 
Teletype. Someone got assigned the task of writing the article, 
maybe a very young intern. I stopped reading when I saw the 
above. Maybe different later but I haven't the patience. Lots of 
AM radio, nothing wrong with it that fixing the near monopoly of 
three station owners wouldn't change. Also would help if there 
was anything on worth listening too. Too much hate radio, 
evangelists, just junk. FM is really not much better.
    We had two "all news" stations in L.A. KFWB (Westinghouse) 
and KNX (CBS). The CE of KFWB was a friend to took some pride 
that they had a better TT sound effect. Of course, when CBS and 
Westinghouse merged the weaker station, KFWB was sold and is now 
Spanish language. KNX holds forth as all news (except for 
football sometimes). TT sound has been gone for years and I 
wonder how many people now would recognize what it is. \
    FWIW, L.A.'s first all news was a Mexican border station 
bought by a Texas radio entrepreneur. 50KW border blaster. A 
strictly rip and read operation. Also had a TT going in the 
background, I think maybe an actual machine. When Westinghouse 
bought KFWB and converted it to all news the other station 
dropped the format pretty quickly. They couldn't compete with the 
far superior presentation.
     BTW KYW was one of the fist dozen licenses issued by the 
Department of Commerce late in 1920, Westinghouse got about five 
of them: KDKA, WBZ (now WABC), WBZ and KYW, originally in 
Chicago. The Radio Commission decided there were too many 
stations in Chicago so Westinghouse moved the station to Philly. 
Was also assigned for a time to Cleveland (WTAM) and then back to 
Philadelphia.
On 8/7/2020 9:06 AM, John Foust wrote:

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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL