[GreenKeys] Teletype sounds in newscasts

[Richard Knoppow]

    I was going by memory. A pretty complete history of RKO 
appears on Wikipedia at:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO_Pictures>

Some history of WRKO and its predecessors is at:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRKO>

    Lots of musical chairs with call letters.

On 3/25/2020 10:56 AM, groupsrichart at gmail.com wrote:
>
> RKO General resulted from the sale of RKO Pictures to General 
> Tire in 1955. General Tire merged all its broadcast holdings 
> into the holding company RKO General in 1959. RKO General 
> operated six TV stations and a dozen radio stations between 
> 1959 and 1991. General Tire had invested heavily in 
> broadcasting beginning in 1943, and with the advent of TV the 
> purchase of the studio was mainly for RKO's extensive library 
> which could be shown on TV. RKO Studios stopped movie 
> production in 1957 and the facilities were sold to Desilu 
> Productions.
>
> 73, Tim WS4V
>
>>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2020, Bill Horne wrote:
>>>
>>>> In 1976, I was a newly-hired engineer at WRKO in Boston. On 
>>>> my first day, during break, I wandered down to the 
>>>> (abandoned) TV studio and wen to inspect the Teletype 
>>>> machine that they showed in the background of the opening to 
>>>> their news program.
>>>
>>> Jut curious, was WRKO any relation to RKO Radio Pictures?  I 
>>> loved seeing those old B&W films on TV (hey, all B&W films 
>>> are good!), and especially the "RKO Radio Pictures V V V" 
>>> being transmitted in CW :-)
>>
>>
>> The stations was owned by RKO General, but I don't know if 
>> they were the company that made the RKO pictures
>>
>>
>
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