[GreenKeys] [External] Re: Hal ST-6 using it in modern times
Jeff G
jeffg at junknet.net
Tue Mar 24 09:29:30 EDT 2020
For what it's worth, we have an AM news station here in Philadelphia, "KYW
1060" that still artificially inserts teletype noise into the background on
their broadcasts. They've been doing it for years, and a few years ago they
stopped doing it and people complained, so they added it back in again.
Jeff KC3GJX
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 9:16 AM Bruce Gentry via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> Simple as these commercials and jingles were, they were very well written
> and did what they were intended to.� Many were Hollywood quality in every
> way,� and are remembered decades later, even the ones promoting stinking
> deadly poison. I doubt the ones� of today� will be regarded with
> anything but scorn. I can't think of even one "earworm" jingle of today,
> unlike the ones we constantly hummed, sang, and satirized� decades
> ago.� Does anyone know� of any commercials, in print or on
> television,� showing a teletype operator so harried or tired they
> "needed" the product,� or a scene with the equipment in the
> background?�
>
> �� Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
>
> On 3/23/20 9:35 AM, Jones, Douglas W wrote:
>
> From: Richard Knoppow [1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com]-- Sunday, March 22, 2020 10:01 PM
>
>
> I also remember TV ads for toothpaste asking "Tired of yellow stained teeth?"
>
> The jingle "You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent" is one I will never forget. It is as firmly planted in my memory as all those cigarette jingles.
>
> Doug Jones
> jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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