WBZ should hang it's head in shame

[Paul Hopfgarten]

One you don’t hear anymore....

The phone "ping" when taking a call on a news story...

-Paul Hopfgarten
Epping NH

-----Original Message----- 
From: A Joseph Ross
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 12:20 AM
To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Subject: Re: WBZ should hang it's head in shame

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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