identify this sound effect please

[ID please]

Anyone who has worked in broadcast radio should know this one (as well as
some others I would guess). Please go here:

http://www.radiotower.com/index.php?s_key=kyw

Click on either one of the two radio feeds for KYW and listen for a few
minutes. While the main news DJ is speaking, you'll hear a clicking in the
background. What device makes this noise and where can I find a recording
of it?

Thanks,
ID man

[dwgriffi]

On Sep 11, 1:43*pm, "ID please" > wrote:
>*What device makes this noise and where can I find a recording
> of it?


That's just an old newsroom teletype sound. Was that was a trick to
get me to click on it? : )

[Richard Crowley]

"ID please" wrote ...
> Anyone who has worked in broadcast radio should know this one (as well
> as some others I would guess). Please go here:
>
> http://www.radiotower.com/index.php?s_key=kyw
>
> Click on either one of the two radio feeds for KYW and listen for a few
> minutes. While the main news DJ is speaking, you'll hear a clicking in
> the background. What device makes this noise and where can I find a
> recording of it?

Without even listening, most of us boomers would know that
it is a news-feed teletype, AP (Associated Press) or UPI
(United Press Internetional). Here are photos...
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/silence/ap-teletype.jpg
http://www.freewebs.com/whus/TeletypeUPI.jpg

www.sounddogs.com lists 38 different SFX for "teletype"

Of course, since nobody uses these anymore, one must question
why KYW would continue the practice of running a SFX loop
in the background? As you have demonstrated, likely most
people hearing it these days don't even know what it is.

[ID please]

"Richard Crowley" > wrote in message
...
> "ID please" wrote ...
>> Anyone who has worked in broadcast radio should know this one (as well
>> as some others I would guess). Please go here:
>>
>> http://www.radiotower.com/index.php?s_key=kyw
>>
>> Click on either one of the two radio feeds for KYW and listen for a few
>> minutes. While the main news DJ is speaking, you'll hear a clicking in
>> the background. What device makes this noise and where can I find a
>> recording of it?
>
> Without even listening, most of us boomers would know that
> it is a news-feed teletype, AP (Associated Press) or UPI
> (United Press Internetional). Here are photos...
> http://blogs.knoxnews.com/silence/ap-teletype.jpg
> http://www.freewebs.com/whus/TeletypeUPI.jpg
>
> www.sounddogs.com lists 38 different SFX for "teletype"
>
> Of course, since nobody uses these anymore, one must question
> why KYW would continue the practice of running a SFX loop
> in the background? As you have demonstrated, likely most
> people hearing it these days don't even know what it is.
>


I'm pretty young, but I had a feeling it was teletype or something similar.
As to stations, if you find the websites featuring news radio feeds, there
are at least several stations around the US at least with this sound still
in the background. Keeping with tradition I guess.

[GregS[_3_]]

In article >, dwgriffi > wrote:
>On Sep 11, 1:43=A0pm, "ID please" > wrote:
>>=A0What device makes this noise and where can I find a recording
>> of it?
>
>
>That's just an old newsroom teletype sound. Was that was a trick to
>get me to click on it? : )

Sounds to me like the slower type.

On the other hand I clicked on Pittsburgh radio stations.
I wanted to know who owns the BOB FM in Pittsburgh.
I didn't find it there, but lists all the owners I think.
I was looking into that, seems there are various owners of BOB FM statons.

There is no BOB.
Bob does not have a record collection.
Bob does not play anything.
Bob has more advertisements than anybody advertising itself.
Bob's an ass.

greg

[William Sommerwerck]

Actually, it's Jack Benny's door...

[Scott Dorsey]

In article >,
ID please > wrote:
>Anyone who has worked in broadcast radio should know this one (as well as
>some others I would guess). Please go here:
>
>http://www.radiotower.com/index.php?s_key=kyw
>
>Click on either one of the two radio feeds for KYW and listen for a few
>minutes. While the main news DJ is speaking, you'll hear a clicking in the
>background. What device makes this noise and where can I find a recording
>of it?

It's a teletype.
I find it VERY sad that kids associate this sound with the news, but
have no idea what it is or why.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Richard Crowley]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> It's a teletype.
> I find it VERY sad that kids associate this sound with the news, but
> have no idea what it is or why.

As a method of receiving "broadcast" text data, they were useful in
their day. But you can't deny that there are ways of doing that today
that beat the old mechanical monstrosities by orders of magnitude.

[William Sommerwerck]

> It's a teletype.
> I find it VERY sad that kids associate this sound
> with the news, but have no idea what it is or why.

It always has been. Radio stations got breaking news over a Teletype.

My late friend Bill Hamlin was a radio announcer. In the decades before
computers and the Internet, he would tear the latest news off the Teletype,
then circle what he thought would be of greatest interest to make a mini
newscast.

[Mike Rivers]

Richard Crowley wrote:

> As a method of receiving "broadcast" text data, they were useful in
> their day. But you can't deny that there are ways of doing that today
> that beat the old mechanical monstrosities by orders of magnitude.

Yeah, but all computers do is beep. What's intersting about that?

[Paul Winkler]

On Sep 12, 9:26*pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> In article >,
>
> ID please > wrote:
> >Anyone who has worked in broadcast radio should know this one (as well as
> >some others I would guess). *Please go here:
>
> >http://www.radiotower.com/index.php?s_key=kyw
>
> >Click on either one of the two radio feeds for KYW and listen for a few
> >minutes. *While the main news DJ is speaking, you'll hear a clicking in the
> >background. *What device makes this noise and where can I find a recording
> >of it?
>
> It's a teletype.
> I find it VERY sad that kids associate this sound with the news, but
> have no idea what it is or why.

There are probably a lot of sounds like that. There was a story on NPR
some time ago (last year?) in which a bunch of teens were asked to
identify the record-scratch sound effect used in a lot of commercials
and comedies to signify a massive faux pas. All the kids knew (from
context?) what the sound meant - but none of them knew what it was.

- PW

[Richard Crowley]

William Sommerwerck wrote:
>> It's a teletype.
>> I find it VERY sad that kids associate this sound
>> with the news, but have no idea what it is or why.
>
> It always has been. Radio stations got breaking news over a Teletype.
>
> My late friend Bill Hamlin was a radio announcer. In the decades
> before computers and the Internet, he would tear the latest news off
> the Teletype, then circle what he thought would be of greatest
> interest to make a mini newscast.

Ah, yes. The time-honored tradition of "Rip-n-read" :-)

These days they probably get away with reading it right off the
comptuer screen, but most of us have heard what happens
when the computer goes down and the on-air "talent" has to
wing it.

[Scott Dorsey]

William Sommerwerck > wrote:
>
>My late friend Bill Hamlin was a radio announcer. In the decades before
>computers and the Internet, he would tear the latest news off the Teletype,
>then circle what he thought would be of greatest interest to make a mini
>newscast.

The rip and read news on my local AM station still does this, although
the news comes off an impact printer connected to the AP wire over the
internet.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Scott Dorsey]

Mike Rivers > wrote:
>Richard Crowley wrote:
>
>> As a method of receiving "broadcast" text data, they were useful in
>> their day. But you can't deny that there are ways of doing that today
>> that beat the old mechanical monstrosities by orders of magnitude.
>
>Yeah, but all computers do is beep. What's intersting about that?

It doesn't matter as long as they can figure out how to charge money
for it.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Scott Dorsey]

Richard Crowley > wrote:
>Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> It's a teletype.
>> I find it VERY sad that kids associate this sound with the news, but
>> have no idea what it is or why.
>
>As a method of receiving "broadcast" text data, they were useful in
>their day. But you can't deny that there are ways of doing that today
>that beat the old mechanical monstrosities by orders of magnitude.

Absolutely, so we should be backing the news report with something
like dot matrix printer sounds or a soft background of muted police
calls....
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[vdubreeze]

On Sep 11, 2:03*pm, "Richard Crowley" > wrote:

> Of course, since nobody uses these anymore, one must question
> why KYW would continue the practice of running a SFX loop
> in the background? *As you have demonstrated, likely most
> people hearing it these days don't even know what it is.

Even in NYC it's still used under radio news. (CBS? WINS? I still
hear it on the alarm clock radio)

I think even though they don't expect everyone to know what it is it
still creates a strong "newsroom" association.

[Richard Crowley]

"vdubreeze" wrote ...
> "Richard Crowley" wrote:
>> Of course, since nobody uses these anymore, one must question
>> why KYW would continue the practice of running a SFX loop
>> in the background? As you have demonstrated, likely most
>> people hearing it these days don't even know what it is.
>
> Even in NYC it's still used under radio news. (CBS? WINS? I still
> hear it on the alarm clock radio)
>
> I think even though they don't expect everyone to know what it is it
> still creates a strong "newsroom" association.

Now the sound of a good old gas-fired Mergenthaler Linotype casting
slugs from paper-tape. THAT's the sound of news. Or a 6-foot roll
of newsprint being spliced at full-speed by the flying paster on a big
Goss web press. :-)