With Television being the dominate medium, and Computers taking second position, where does that leave Radio? 95 years ago radio was the second language of mass media and it has been around since, making it a great survivor medium. Radio has changed the way we communicate. The first broadcast was in 1916 out of the garage of Frank Conrad who moved his station to Westinghouse factory where he relaunched the station as KDKA on November 2, 19201. Radio has since branched out with each branch growing a new form of media to create a world of new Radio sub-categories. Radio has become a medium of entertainment, education and information giving listeners a form of imagination, relaxation and escape from our daily lives.
The 1927 radio options for the American listener showcased the talents of stars such as Ed Wynn, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Bergen, and Kate Smith. Stars like these gave the average listener entertainment with news, comedy, drama, music and more. Performer where exposure to more fame. This era is known as Radio’s Golden Ages2. Those legendary stars are still remembered even today and are spoken about by people saying “I remember before we had TV, our form of entertainment was radio. We would hear Bob Hope, among others and visualized his performance. We saw through our imagination.” Radio has not stopped, and has evolved new types of radio, such as satellite radio and internet radio. These forms attract listeners of all ages by giving them more options of forms of entertainment, drama, information, and imagination.
So, how much time does the average listener still listen to the radio? According to the Council for Research Excellence (CRE), the average American is exposed...
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American film and radio changed dramatically because of the 1940s and everything that came with the time. Theatre got darker after the war, also bringing propaganda into radio and film. The radio was the way Americans connected to the world because it offered on the spot information. Everyone was tuned into the radio for news, entertainment and music.... ... middle of paper ...
-In the 1930s there were basically three types of radio stations: the large networks, the network afilliates,and the idependent stations.
middle of paper ... ... It is no wonder why movies were and still are a popular form of entertainment, as well as why during the 1920’s and even during the depression, people continued to flock to the movies. Works Cited Carringer, Robert, L. Jazz Singer. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
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An artistic achievement that can demonstrate that the United States is in its Golden Age is its very influential fast growing entertainment business, a business very important to the U.S. economic activity. The U.S. entertainment has been popular around the world globalizing U.S. pop culture and the U.S. entrainment business economy. This globalization is a result of new innovations, that the U.S. itself developed, that allows film, music, and television, to spread worldwide. Because the U.S. is generally first to have such innovations the entertainment is commonly considered better quality thus appealing to the masses of people. Other factors that lead to the huge success of its entertainment business include their methods of distribution, which is through large and powerful foreign companies, and their large English-speaking market potential. High market ability and general international appeal of the U.S. entertainment business has put the U.S. in a “Golden ...
Most radio historians assert that radio broadcasting began in 1920 with the historic broadcast of KDKA. During the 1920s radio benefited Americans because it was a source of their entertainment, the music industry of jazz, and advertisements.
Wireless communication across the country was something no one ever imagined. The creating of the commercial radio in 1920, created a feeling of belonging to many citizens of the United States. Starting off as a hobby for amateurs, radio quickly expanded. With the creation of NBC, and emerging radio stars like Ernie Hare and Billy Jones radio, families tuned in on a daily basis. Music was brought to lower income families who couldn’t afford to buy a piano. As well as streaming music, radio provided advertising outlets. Promotions regarding cigarettes, automobiles, and soap
In “Wires and Lights in a Box,” the author, Edward R. Murrow, is delivering a speech on October 15, 1958, to attendees of the Radio-Television News Directors Association. In his speech, Murrow addresses how it is his desire and duty to tell his audience what is happening to radio and television. Murrow talks about how television insulates people from the realities in the world, how the television industry is focused on profits rather than delivering the news to the public, and how television and radio can teach, illuminate, and inspire.
“Radio’s America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture,” accessed February 3, 2014, http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/471921.html.
The power of television is strong and inevitable. Television has the ability to draw people in and view the world through a perspective one would think unimaginable. After the second world war ended in 1945, electronic sales boomed and more families started to gather around the tv at night to view widely famous television shows. Specifically, The Ed Sullivan Show was known for its plethora of celebrities and up and coming entertainers. The shows popularity was able to take a small town artist and make he or she into an enormous success, specifically, Elvis Presley who was, “something new under the Sun” (Altschuler 30). Teenagers, however, viewed the television as an escape and a look into the unknown and intriguing world of African American culture. Through the extreme recognition of The Ed Sullivan Show, the power of mass media and the fascination with African American culture, Elvis Presley’s success skyrocketed and made him one of the most famous performers of all time whose fame became an inspiration for many.
Watching a movie in the 1920s was a cheap and easy way to be transported into a world of glitz and glamour, a world of crime, or a world of magic and mystery. Some of these worlds included aspects of current events, like war, crime, and advances in technology; while others were completely fictional mysteries, romances, and comedies. Heartbreakers, heartthrobs, comedians and beautiful women dominated movie screens across the country in theaters, called Nickelodeons. Nickelodeons were very basic and small theaters which later transformed into opulent and monumental palaces. When sound was introduced into film by Warner Bros. Pictures, “talkies” took top rank over silent films. “Movies were an art form that had universal appeal. Their essence was entertainment; their success, financial and otherwise, was huge” (1920-30, 3/19/11). Films offered an escape from the troubles of everyday life in the 20s, and moviegoers across the country all shared a universal language: watching movies.
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The top 40 charts help establish a standard of what would be played on the radio and after ASCAP and the Orion hearings ended the Payola period of rock and roll. ASCAP, “mounted an attack on rock n roll” (Brackett, 131). With all the lawsuits and early rock and roll artist like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry not performing their music lead to a decline in the late 1950’s of rock and roll. The youth of America was highly influenced by what was played on the radio and how the artist were perceived and viewed by others in society helped bring the advancement as well as the later decline of rock and
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American life was much different with radios starting to become popular and the creations of “talkies”. Radios started to become popular “13,750,000 American households had radios a figure that more than doubled in 1939” (1930s). Most people used it as entertainment and a way to get news in the house without news papers...