[GreenKeys] Teletype sounds in newscasts

Bill Horne w4ewh at outlook.com
Tue Mar 24 23:54:37 EDT 2020


On 3/24/2020 6:26 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2020, Bill Horne wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Jut curious, was WRKO any relation to RKO Radio Pictures?  I loved 
> seeing those old B&W films on TV (hey, all B&W films are good!), and 
> especially the "RKO Radio Pictures V V V" being transmitted in CW :-)


The stations was owned by RKO General, but I don't know if they were the 
company that made the RKO pictures.


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