[GreenKeys] Teletype sounds in newscasts

[Bill Horne]

On 3/24/2020 4:20 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.

In 1976, I was a newly-hired engineer at WRKO in Boston. On my first 
day, during break, I wandered down to the (abandoned) TV studio and wen 
to inspect the Teletype machine that they showed in the background of 
the opening to their news program.

Sigh.

The "Teletypes," I found out, were just Model 15 machine covers, each 
with a piece of yellow papers taped to the top to make them appear to be 
actual machines. Since they were always out-of-focus, I was told, that 
didn't matter.

Bill W4EWH