On This Day in Telephone History April 8TH 1939 WEather 6-1212, the New York weather forecast service, was inaugurated. This was the first such service in United States. The service was provided by AT&T’s NYC West Side Telephone Information Office at 435 West Fiftieth Street. Each hour, one of thirty women made a record containing the latest report. There was quite a lot of competition to see who could highlight and emphasize their words best. At the time, the service had an average of twenty to thirty thousand listeners a day. Because there was “no good reason” to continue the weather telephone number service, Verizon discontinued it on June 1ST, 2011.

On This Day in Telephone History April 8TH 1939

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On This Day in Telephone History April 8TH 1939, WEather 6-1212, the New York weather forecast service, was inaugurated.

This was the first such service in United States. The service was provided by AT&T’s NYC West Side Telephone Information Office at 435 West Fiftieth Street. Each hour, one of thirty women made a record containing the latest report. There was quite a lot of competition to see who could highlight and emphasize their words best. At the time, the service had an average of twenty to thirty thousand listeners a day. Because there was “no good reason” to continue the weather telephone number service, Verizon discontinued it on June 1ST, 2011.