Before there was a "wire room" adjacent to the newsroom, the teletype machines were just lined up along the west wall. Note all the Western Union clocks above the machines. On the hour, all the little red lights would light up as the clocks re-set themselves.

The light-colored machine just behind the AP machine in the foreground was a Reuters printer, obtained at great cost to the station. I seem to recall it was sacrificed when we got that high-speed local wire, the one on which Rudy and I faked the bulletin about an ape being spotted on the Empire State Building. Jim Gash was almost out the door on that one, a rare "gotcha" for which he never forgave Rudy OR me [Andy Fisher].

Mike Eisgrau (center) sets 1968 as the year this photo was taken. He's with financial reporter Rudy Ruderman and Desk Editor, Carolyn Tanton, with Ray Rice in the background.

An ad that appeared in the Herald Tribune and the Journal American in August of 1965 promoting WNEW coverage of the Gemini V space mission of astronauts Pete Conrad and Gordon Cooper.

This picture was taken in 1973 by WNEW DJ Bill Hickok on Madison Avenue near the WNEW studios at 46th and Fifth. When we finished, half the people around us were looking up at the Roosevelt Hotel to find out what Andy Fisher had been looking at.

This gives an idea of how much smaller the newsroom in the "new" studios at 42nd and Third was. Newscaster Bob Hagen is at the typewriter; John Kennelly and Andy Fisher are consulting the atlas. Andy dates the picture to some time in 1981.