[GreenKeys] Can anyone ID these markings on an old TTY Print?

[E.]

May be right on the R — not sure.

The UPI had two wires — the A and B.  The A Wire was for newspapers — very fast and very messy on-the-fly type-outs, in order to get info immediately to papers for print (as a heads up), before it showed on the B Wire.  The B Wire was for TV/Radio, etc… finely edited and timed for short news breaks, longer news breaks, stories, etc.  These were updated multiple times throughout the day, including local splits for local press agencies to print out their local stories regionally on the wire… I think 15 minutes past and possibly 15 before the hour is when the short splits happened.  Things got messier on the B Wire when there were flashes and the flash hadn’t been properly edited, etc.

The funny thing is that the AP had a A and B wire as well… but to distinguish themselves from their main competitor - the UP, they renamed their wires A and P.

Funny stuff on that 😂 ~


> On Aug 29, 2023, at 7:01 AM, Sheldon Daitch <sheldondaitch at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I am going to make a guess that in the UPR96 at the top, the R suggests that the 
> feed was from the radio wire service, typically subscribed to by the radio and
> TV station customers to UPI.
> 
> It has been over 45 years since I worked at a radio station which had UPI service.
> 
> 73
> Sheldon
> 
> On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 01:34:54 AM EDT, E. <hanyou at xsmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
> 
> I’m a little rusty, but this was from the United Press Wire and if I remember right, 96 is United Press' 96th release for the day (at the top).  At the bottom, I think the S would have (possibly) been the news bureau initial code, the 317 the time 3:17, the P for PM and CS for Central Standard Time (the UP’s HQ was in Chicago, thus central time).  11/24 was the date November 24th.
> 
> 
> > On Aug 28, 2023, at 8:45 PM, B Degnan via GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > I was contacted by someone who asked if I could help ID markings on alledgedly TTY printouts here:
> > 
> > https://vintagecomputer.net/temp/TTY_prints/
> > 
> > If anyone has ideas what the circled text means, please advise so I can let the woman know.  I hypothesize that they're the markings of a news agency, reporter, or something like that.  The prints are the raw feeds from the field before the editor can clean them up?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Bill Degnan
> > vintagecomputer.net / kennettclassic.com
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