WBZ should hang it's head in shame

A Joseph Ross joe@attorneyross.com
Fri Jun 1 00:20:13 EDT 2012


On 5/31/2012 6:50 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:

> I'm familiar with both WCBS and WINS in New York.  Would you want WBZ to sound like either of those?  I don't think we need a teletype bed like WINS (ask your friends if they know what that sound is and you'll probably get blank stares), although I've always liked their top-of-hour sounder.  What does WCBS do that WBZ does not?

We had a teletype at WMUA when I was there in the mid-1960s, so I know 
what one sounds like.  For that matter, I heard a teletype bed on many 
TV newscasts long before I knew what one was, and it gave a certain 
atmosphere to the program.  Kinda like Walter Winchell's telegraph key.  
Now it's a bit like all the music videos that show 1960s cars, AM 
radios, and turntables.  Nostalgia I guess.

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