[GreenKeys] [External] Re: Hal ST-6 using it in modern times

Tue Mar 24 12:16:48 EDT 2020

    I am glad to hear the KYW call is still active. KYW was one 
of the first stations licensed by the Department of Commerce and 
was owned by Westinghouse. It went on the air in Chicago but, 
sometime in the 1930s. the Federal Radio Commission, predecessor 
of the FCC, decided it had authorized too many stations in Chi so 
the call was moved to Philadelphia. Westinghouse later sold it to 
NBC. In the more recent past NBC traded it to CBS for WCAU to 
stifle union action at both stations. However, for decades KYW 
was the NBC affilliate in Philly. However, I think for a time the 
call was also moved to Cleveland where it replaced WTAM, another 
NBC o&o. Obviously got moved back.
    Westinghouse used an all news format for most of its stations 
until the merger with CBS. They owned KFWB here. The CE of KFWB 
was a friend and told me he thought they had a better Teletype 
sound effect than the rival KNX, a CBS O&O, also all-news. For a 
time KNX had a couple of actual Teletype machines in cases near 
the on air announcer. I don't know when they stopped using the 
sound effect but I think many people these days would not know 
what the sound was. Times change and memories are short.
    Please keep safe.

On 3/24/2020 6:29 AM, Jeff G wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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.ï¿½
>     Many were Hollywood quality in every way,ï¿½ and are
>     remembered decades later, even the ones promoting stinking
>     deadly poison. I doubt the onesï¿½ of todayï¿½ 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 satirizedï¿½ decades ago.ï¿½ Does anyone
>     knowï¿½ of any commercials, in print or on television,ï¿½
>     showing a teletype operator so harried or tired they
>     "needed" the product,ï¿½ or a scene with the equipment in
>     the background?ï¿½
>
>     ï¿½ï¿½ Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
>
>
>     On 3/23/20 9:35 AM, Jones, Douglas W wrote:
>>     From: Richard Knoppow [1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com  <mailto: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
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