[GreenKeys] Teletype sounds in newscasts

[Jim Haynes]

Related to the sound of the Model 15 banging away on a radio broadcast...
now we've all seen the placards like Associated Press on the front of 15s.
In my youth I never saw these.  My speculation is that they began when
TV stations began showing images of their news rooms full of Teletypes
to impress the public that they were getting news from all sources.  And
the TV stations wanted the sourced identified, and the wire services
wanted their machines identified.

One more singing commercial anecdote.  The big companies that commissioned
such things maybe didn't consider whether their message was appropriate
to all localities where it might be broadcast.  I was driving in Los
Angeles in January in the early 1960s, listening to the news on the car
radio.  The announcer concluded his broadcast with "...and the temperature
is 78 degrees.  That's Cream of Wheat weather."  and the singing jingle
came on "That's Cream of Wheat weather, we repeat, so guard your family
with hot Cream of Wheat."

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