Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 29 May 91 20:39:00 GMT From: Dan_Jacobson@att.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Free Teletypes Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 412, Message 3 of 14 Lines: 37 I have painstakingly put together a summary of e-mail replies to article wherein I wrote: > By the way, is it true that some "Newsradio" stations nowadays just > pipe in teletype clicking to make their newsroom more newsy sounding? > E.g., WBBM-AM in Chicago has this sound. >>>>> On Wed, 29 May 91 08:24:28 EDT, Scott Dorsey >>>>> said: Scott> Yup. In the Tidewater area, WZCL has a tape cartridge with Scott> the teletype sounds, while WCCO uses a synthesizer called the Scott> "Eventide Harmonizer" to generate the background noise. The Scott> Harmonizer is a much nicer device, because it can also simulate Scott> a bandlimited channel with static and helicopter noises for the Scott> traffic report. Scott> God, how I hate commercial radio. >>>>> On Wed, 29 May 91 06:06 CDT, jtl%ddsw1@uunet.UU.NET (Joe Lynn) said: Joe> WBBM-AM's "teletype" sound is a tape. They've been using Joe> that effect for years. >>>>> On Wed, 29 May 91 09:00:25 CDT, ho@csrd.uiuc.edu (Samuel W. Ho) said: Samuel> Hey, WUFI Newsradio here in Champaign-Urbana pipes in - Samuel> dot matrix printer chatter. A Technological Advance. >>>>> On 29 May 91 10:11:22 EDT (Wed), johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us >>>>> (John R. Levine) said: John> Sure is. These days only the teensiest of radio stations would John> have anything as klunky as a real Teletype. More typically the John> newswire goes straight into the word-processing computer.