[GreenKeys] Teletype sounds in newscasts

[Bruce Gentry]

On 3/24/20 7:56 PM, Bruce Gentry wrote:
>
> One of the worst things about teletypes in the backgrounds of 
> broadcasts was there was no effort to present the real sound.  What 
> was picked up was just hum and thumps. The whir of the gears, impact 
> of the type on the paper, and "tzatt tzatt" of the selector was 
> completely ignored as far as I have ever heard.  Still the muffled 
> sound was recognized by the public and often expected.  One of the 
> best "TV studio" sightings was in the movie 'Hairspray", there were 
> three or four model 28s on the news set, obstensively reporting a teen 
> popularity contest.
>
>        Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
>
>
> On 3/24/20 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 :-)
>>
>> -- Dave VK2KFU
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