[GreenKeys] KYW Teletype - an updated story from KYW

[Richard Knoppow]

    Should be "tip of the hat", no matter. KYW was one of the 
first dozen or so calls issued by the Department of Commerce in 
1920. Westinghouse got five of them, the famous KDKA in 
Pittsburgh, WBZ Boston, WJZ New York (now WABC) and KYW, 
originally issued to Chicago. A few years later (I have forgotten 
the date) the Federal Radio Commission, predecessor to the FCC, 
decided they had issued too many licenses to Chicago and decided 
to eliminate KYW. Westinghouse moved it to Philadelphia. For 
years KYW was the NBC affiliate in Philly. For a time RCA moved 
the call to Cleveland in place of their O&O there WTAM but before 
long moved it back. Some time ago NBC and CBS decided to trade 
stations in Philadelphia as an anti-union ploy so WCAU and KYW 
were traded.  Now Westinghouse and CBS have merged so KYW is back 
in the Westinghouse fold. CBS has changed all their O&O stations 
to all news. But, this was also the Westinghouse format. In Los 
Angeles both owned radio stations and both were all news but the 
CBS station, KNX, is a fifty thousand watt unlimited while the 
Westinghouse station, KFWB was five KW so guess which one 
survived? KFWB was sold and, after some musical chairs, is now 
Spanish language. KFWB used pretty much the same TTY sound effect 
on the web site. KNX had actual machines in a counter under the 
announcer's console. The TT sound effect disappeared years ago. I 
suspect that even during its lifetime many younger listeners had 
no idea what it was.
    A million years ago, when I was a kid, I had a friend at KFI. 
I used to visit every so often and remember the actual news room 
in back with several Teletype machines going. Noisy and hot. I 
loved watching the news come in on the wire service machines.

On 8/13/2020 6:22 AM, Russ Miller wrote:
> The previous article was in the newspaper "Philadelphia Inquirer".
>
> Now, I see that KYW has posted a story that tells a slightly 
> different (and more accurate) story:
>
> https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/news/a-tip-of-the-cap-to-the-ticker 
> <https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/news/a-tip-of-the-cap-to-the-ticker> 
>
>
>
> I hope that you enjoy this new information in spite of the fact 
> that the sounds of a Teletype is no longer present on air.
>
> 73
>
> Russ
> WA3FRP
>
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