Scanners On TV
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scannersnstuff
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On Chicago Fire,there seem's to be what look's like a cheaper Whistler scanner on the desk in the house watch area. No closeup's.
No scanners on "The Munsters" - an amateur radio, yes.
Eng74
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I have seen that also on Chicago Fire and probably the same radio (Whistler 1065 or Radio Shack Pro 652/197) in an office on 911 Lonestar.
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I know but the first post was a transceiver even though the title states Scanners on TV. I've seen scanners on many shows during the 70's & 80's. Some used scanners like they were transceivers. I always look for transceivers and scanners in the background of the old shows. The Highway Patrol series from the 50's showed the power of two-way radio in law enforcement. They were using the 43-50 MHz range back then. Dragnet from the 60's was a good show that emphasized the police radio too. Rockford always had a scanner running in the background. I got my first scanner in 1970 and then started seeing them on television shows during the 70's.
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I can still hear Broderick Crawford saying, "2150 to headquarters." In one of the CHiPs shows, Broderick Crawford was pulled over to be given a ticket and the officers went mad when they saw who it was.
No photo, but when the local news (Ch 3 Phoenix) does segments from the “news room” the PHX fire dispatch tone from scanner audio is recognizable in the background. I remember a segment a while ago where they actually showed and discussed the scanners they used, and I recall seeing a BCD996P2 or similar.
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Whistler WS1065 is shown in two different scenes in Better Call Saul - once in the car and once in an apartment. Season 5 episode 1. It's a bit hard to see, but they even used an accurate frequency for Nemaha County Nebraska public safety frequency. Saul is hiding out in Nebraska in this episode 
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In the TV series The Americans, they used a Realistic Pro 2020 scanner to monitor the FBI.
Lethal Weapon 3 Leo has a Scanner, believe it was a realistic 16 channel handheld i had one
My uncle freelanced with Weegee and when Weegee got married and stopped working nights chasing murders he gave my uncle his police radio and permit to operate a mobile police receiver. They were roommates at Center Market Place, opposite the driveway where the crime scene cars left NYPD HQ and Weegee followed them.
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If you are speaking of the PRO-30, I still have one. It has a direct entry keypad and covers 30-54, 108-136, 138-174, and 380-512. It is very large and heavy and requires 6 AA batteries.
Very cool! Weegee was considered one of the first (if not the first) street photographer to use a mobile police radio.
It was not uncommon in that time for photographers to be issued police-like press badges by law enforcement. Some of my predecessors here in LA still kept theirs as souvenirs after they were recalled by LAPD. I still have my California press photographer ("PP") plates hanging on my garage wall.
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In the movie Nightcrawler the creepy guy who film accidents first listen to something that looks like a crystal scanner but as he gets more advanced he gets more modern scanners and several of them, looks like 2 Uniden 996 and 2 Whistlers?
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