Some on this forum may be too young to even know what the word teletype means. At least what the original machine was. So, my question is did 1010 ever use the sound from real teletype machines or was it always a recording? I have been in radio stations where the teletype machines were actually in The Newsroom so sometimes they would go silent with nothing was coming down the wire.
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1010 WINS Teletype Sound
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KQV in Pittsburgh used the same WINS tag line (Give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world) along with the teletype sounds. They continued to use it MANY years after teletypes had ceased to exist (into the early 21st. century!). Obviously a recording.
They were matched in obsolescence by WPIT, which until a couple of years ago was running a promo for their
website which featured the sound of an AOL dial-up modem logging-on circa 1997!
KQV in Pittsburgh used the same WINS tag line (Give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world) along with the teletype sounds. They continued to use it MANY years after teletypes had ceased to exist (into the early 21st. century!). Obviously a recording.
They were matched in obsolescence by WPIT, which until a couple of years ago was running a promo for their
website which featured the sound of an AOL dial-up modem logging-on circa 1997!
Yes. The real-time WINS teletype sound became a bit too real, however, the day someone uttered an expletive in the newsroom. Thereafter, 1010 switched to the recording.
The "hip" radio stations in the early 80s used compact dot-matrix printers instead of the more iconic and much more bulky teletype printers. Both used the same leisurely baud rate IIRC, but the dot-matrix printer just never sounded right on-air, in my mind.
If a station switched from the WWII teletype machine to the dot matrix, but kept the phone line, then the baud rate was the same. When the station switched to satellite, then the baud rate went up.
Also, I agree. The dot matrix just never sounded right. Also, the paper had to be changed a lot more often!
Hmmm... My grammer sucks in this post. Teacher, I promise to do better on my next test.
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