The Importance Of Radio Broadcasting

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Radio broadcasting is one of the most effective technologies that effected the world, it is conveying a voice message by means of electromagnetic radiation intended for a general audience. The main inventor is Guglielmo Marconi, beginning in the mid-1890s in Northern Italy and building on the work of others. For much of the twentieth century, the radio broadcasting was becoming dominant, because it is providing entertainment such as music, drama, and comedy also the news to millions of people all over the world primarily through the broadcasting voice and supply educational materials so use of radio as an educational tool further led to augment its informational function. In addition, it considered one of the most comfortable and flexible ways …show more content…

For many years ago, nations used radio to transfer the messages around the world; World War I has seen some of these activities “as U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (to bring an end to the war) and Vladimir Lenin’s messages to Czarist Russian soldiers on the front lines encouraging them to desert and return home were sent out across Europe” (Browne,2003). However, the vast majority of Europeans did not receive those messages because the standard radio receivers of those days were not for sale to the public (Browne,2003). Then the governments allowed for the public to use the radio which was the dominant form of broadcasting globally. Thus, the main reason for this broadcasting was serving the public interest also the broadcasters were free from commercial and political pressure and strived to inform and educate the audience via quality programs such as the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) (Tracey2015). However, radio one of the most weapons used in cold war, referring to (Rene,2010) they used radio to transfer the reportage of major war-crimes trials of the time for instance in Germany of the 1960s. Finally, the world's governments could use the space in a new way to enhance

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