[GreenKeys] Teletype sounds in newscasts

[Richard Knoppow]

    There should be enough dated pictures of news rooms to show 
if machines were identified. Also look at newspaper news rooms. I 
think maybe they were identified. Maybe because there were 
several services and maybe as a brag. Once upon a time there was 
AP, UP, INS. Newspapers but not radio stations might have 
Reuters. In Los Angeles there was also City News Service, a wire 
with local news on it. I think CNS operated in several large 
cities. There might also be a Weather Bureau machine. In a 
newspaper office there was often more than one wire service 
machine, a national and an regional one.
    Until the 1940s wire services were reluctant to provide wire 
service to radio stations because they were thought to compete 
with newspapers.

On 3/24/2020 1:20 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> Related to the sound of the Model 15 banging away on a radio 
> broadcast...
> now we've all seen the placards like Associated Press on the 
> front of 15s.
> In my youth I never saw these.  My speculation is that they 
> began when
> TV stations began showing images of their news rooms full of 
> Teletypes
> to impress the public that they were getting news from all 
> sources.  And
> the TV stations wanted the sourced identified, and the wire 
> services
> wanted their machines identified.
    I associate Cream of Wheat with a childrens radio show the 
name of which has suddenly blanked out of my memory. A friend was 
one of the children who sung the theme "Cream of wheat is so good 
to eat and we eat it every day...." she can still sing it.  I 
thought the stuff had the flavor and texture of library paste. Vile.

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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL