that horrible BEEP

[Roger Kolakowski]

"the telegraph sounder that ran under the news... even though nobody had
used telegraph in years"

Teletype? The origin of "Rip and Read"

Roger
WA1KAT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Paul Anderson" <paulranderson@charter.net>;
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: that horrible BEEP


>
> >Paul wrote--
> >
> >ABC radio always had a tone at five seconds before a newscast started.
>
> Yes, and I do remember those tones (like the NBC chimes, or the
> telegraph sounder that ran under the news... even though nobody had
> used telegraph in years).  But what started my original query was
> that I'm trying to figure out was why some of the pioneering radio
> talkers like Joe Pyne and KDKA's Ed & Wendy King at first paraphrased
> the caller instead of putting him or her on the air.  I thought it
> was technological-- but then I found clippings of callers put on the
> air in 1929.  SO now I am thinking maybe it was the annoying beep on
> the phone line?
>
>