Its a classic.Their trademark.I like it.I hope they never stop using it.
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Why does WINS 1010 AM still use "The Typewriter background Sounds" ?
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If WINS goes to FM, the teletype will go away and the overall sound will get a refresh. But that's a big "if".
Yes I do agree .it's outdated.Hum .On FM they got get a stereo mix of the teletype machine.
Think about it. You are a passenger riding in a car and the radio is tuned to WINS with their teletype noise running in the backround.
You hear a headline of the lastest rumour of the Yankees and whip out your "dumfone" (orig.) and read the story.
Two things have happened:
1.) you have more information in your hand hurting the reporter's leverage of information
AND
2.) the subconscience is reinforcing your decision of using your device by the sounds of outdated technology.
WINS is hurting themselves by continuing to use it.
Younger generation will not relate any more than they will to 8-track.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
You hear a headline of the lastest rumour of the Yankees and whip out your "dumfone" (orig.) and read the story.
Two things have happened:
1.) you have more information in your hand hurting the reporter's leverage of information
AND
2.) the subconscience is reinforcing your decision of using your device by the sounds of outdated technology.
WINS is hurting themselves by continuing to use it.
Younger generation will not relate any more than they will to 8-track.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
And clock ticks every second.cd637299 said:
As for WINS's Teletype sound, the IBOS hiss drowns it out on many radios anyway. And if you actually do listen to them in "HD", such as through WWFS-HD3, then the Teletype comes out sounding like an unintelligible mush of noise, since the low-bitrate digital stream cannot reproduce the "tack-tack-tack..." noise correctly.
cd637299 said:
Actually it's .-. .-. (RR)
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Kevin Sealy yes I remember the WNEW sound effects at the begining of their newscast, legendary.
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@RFBurns---yes I admitted my boo-boo in post #20.
As to the teletype, and how some still want it and some don't, it kinda reminds me of the Grocery Game on "The Price is Right".....They still use a classic NCR cash register to total up the purchases in the game. In 2011, if they really want the game to be modernized, there'd be a mock "scanner" (beeping the amount of the items purchased). However, for posterity, I think they wanna keep the NCR deal. I think I read on www.golden-road.net that the thing is very expensive to repair, or certainly hard to get parts....but the charm is in the ol' fashioned NCR thingy.
I'm sure both the NCR *and* the WINS teletype will be phased out eventually.
cd
As to the teletype, and how some still want it and some don't, it kinda reminds me of the Grocery Game on "The Price is Right".....They still use a classic NCR cash register to total up the purchases in the game. In 2011, if they really want the game to be modernized, there'd be a mock "scanner" (beeping the amount of the items purchased). However, for posterity, I think they wanna keep the NCR deal. I think I read on www.golden-road.net that the thing is very expensive to repair, or certainly hard to get parts....but the charm is in the ol' fashioned NCR thingy.
I'm sure both the NCR *and* the WINS teletype will be phased out eventually.
cd
cd637299 said:
The mechanical cash register "ka-ching!" sound effect is still very popular in commercials, especially for car dealers. Same thing with the sound of a turntable needle being abruptly ripped off a record.
And even today, many TV news themes still feature a prominent staccato rhythm, designed to mimic the Morse code that was featured in news intros in the '40s and '50s -- which even by then was merely a sound effect.
One thing that has gone by the wayside, however, is the top-of-hour beep on radio stations. Aside from the CBS News "bong", which I believe gets sent down the network, nobody in NYC does it anymore, as far as I know. I believe WOR was the last holdout, but once they began transmitting IBOC, the beep became 8.5 seconds late due to the delay, so they eventually eliminated it.
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satech said:
<Mutual> Bee-doop! </Mutual>
cd
satech said:
10-10 WINS does a top and bottom of hour time tone.
Back in the 80s and 90s I remember WADO, WEVD and WOR doing top-of-hour tones. WOR did away with it shortly after IBOC, WADO hasn't done it in over 15 years, and WEVD's time tone died the day the station switched to ESPN/WEPN.
satech said:
The CBS "Net Alert chirp," which preceded the "BONG" on the TOH newscasts, was phased out in July 2009.
For all intents and purposes, the Mutual "Be-Doop," which carried over onto Westwood One product, was also phased out at the same time. The last two shows I know of that used it were Jim Bohannon and Glenn Haege (both former Mutual hosts; Haege self-syndicates his show).
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satech said:
wibc indianapolis had an top- of- hour beep not that long ago .but does no more.even if the programing wasnt precisely on the hour it was.but it is no more.
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