College Radio Struggles to be Heard “Ten watts of fury,” screams current WBCN nighttime deejay Deek, as he sits in his Boylston street studio. Ten watts, which is low by today’s radio standards, certainly doesn’t describe the Infinity-owned rock station that hands him his bi-weekly paycheck. However, it does describe the place where he, along with so many other deejays, got their start on the road to a professional radio career -- college radio. Less than two miles away from WBCN stands the
Non-Profit College Radio “Radio is the salvation of the world…” Non-profit college radio is, by its nature, a medium dedicated to the local community and the public interest. The media landscape in the new millennium has brought about a homogenized world of radio. Large conglomerates like Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting own thousands of radio stations. Clear Channel designates one programming director for a particular format in an area, giving sometimes a hundred radio stations the
completion within the music industry since the media policy wars in the early 2000s. Since then, the radio industry arguably has lost a significant amount of the authenticity it once had. The only exception is college radio: the last safe haven for musical integrity. The only facet of radio not owned and controlled by a major monopoly. Recently, however, Clear Channel has gone to bed with college radio stations across the country. Although the corporate monopoly has shut out authenticity and artistic
listeners a genius. He grew up in a suburb of Manhattan in the early sixties. His father, Ben Stern, worked at radio station WHOM where the was the engineer. His father commuted every day about 40 miles to and from work. Howard would spend little time with his father but on occasion he would get to go to work with him. This is what interested Howard to being on the radio. At the time, the area Howard lived in was going through a racist change. His mother told his friends who were
Has anyone ever wondered how radio communications changed society during the 1930’s? According to the research done by the Education Foundation, many people believe that the most important development in the radio at that time was entertainment; this is entirely false. In fact, radio communications not only made an impact in the way people received their news, but also brought together a nation that got out of a brutal depression. Together, the nations as one made radio communications the commanding
HUM 110: Technology and Society Exam Essay #1 Question: Is technology inevitable or unpredictable? Technology is inevitable in that man has always sought to improve life and/or make certain tasks simpler or less labor intensive. It (technology) is also unpredictable, while we may be able to look and see what is on the horizon is respect to current developments, we cannot say for sure what direction they will take or how new high-tech items will be used, or what will come after that. Looking back
Lee De Forest Lee De Forest was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father's efforts to educate blacks, Lee and his brother and sister made friends from among the black children of the town and spent a happy although sternly disciplined childhood in this
Wolverines, has been a prominent name in college sports for many decades, in many areas of college athletics. From their gridiron glory to their up and coming prowess in basketball, the University of Michigan is steep in tradition and continues to get some of the best talent to come to their university to compete in college athletics. U of M has also been at the fore front of media and technology. Michigan was one of the first schools to start using radio and television to broadcast their games and
Why is talk radio dominated by largely conservative transmission of political ideology? To discover possible reasons for a conservitive bias in public radio prgramming, it is helpful to begin by analyzing the demographics of both individuals whom identify as conservitives, as well as, the demographics of public radio listeners. Once information regarding radio listeners and conservatives is obtained, certain commonalities between the groups illuminate why there is a cooralation with radio and conservitivness
INTRODUCTION Radio has evolved greatly since its birth in the late 1800’s. Although it was growing and evolving since birth, the greatest period of change occurred after World War II to present day. From privatized AM broadcasting, to commercial FM radio to the current crop of internet & satellite radio stations, technological advancements have changed the way we use radio in our daily lives. The commercialization of radio significantly changed the entire radio/broadcast medium. In the early days
During the 1950s, the United States experienced a period of prosperity. Many inventions eased Americans workload and some just made life more enjoyable. One such invention was the color television. Television, in general, allowed people to catch glimpses of the world from their living room sofas. Now, sports fans on one coast to watch sporting events which were occurring across on the other coast in their own home. The sporting world of the 1950s gave viewers a lot to talk about and many great
Radio History The radio has evolved over time. The radio we listen to today has a different format, purpose, viewer reach, and clarity than it did before the 1950s. The radio has survived the threat of the television industry by changing with the times. It has been dealt with in the law through acts and the creation of the government regulating agency (FCC). Today the radio is the cheapest and most affective way to communicate with everyone around the world. It began with the invention of the
press. The penny press made creating the paper affordable. At the same time, there was the construction of railways which lowered the transportation costs hence also lowering the distribution costs. However, then came the introduction of the radio which included radio in its. This impacted newspapers because this medium of consuming news was free. As a result, people started opting
the game scored.” This is just a small example of life of a radio sports broadcaster. However, some people are not in to sports that are ok because this is just one branch of broadcasting, and there are many different jobs you can have such as: a disc jockey, announcer, programmer, producer and many more. Even with the invention and use of iPods, music players, satellite radio, TVs and other ways to get news or music. The need for radio broadcasters is growing every day. Picture it, when you get
pattern. Millie strongly believes that the missing part of Susan's calculation is due to the data that she is working with. Since what they both need complete data and information from a valid source, then Millie suggest getting help from their other colleges at Bletchley Park, Lucy (Sophie Rundle) and Jean (Julie Graham). They need Jean’s good relationship and connection with important people to get all of the data about the missing girl included the one that not shared to public and Lucy’s eidetic memory
Samuel was an unsteady student that was always getting in trouble for drawing and not paying attention. In 1805 he entered Yale College and graduated in 1810. Soon after, he convinced his parents to send him to London to study painting. He lived in England from 1811 to 1815 getting into Royal Academy in 1813. Samuel first began working after he graduated from Yale College as a clerk for Boston book publisher. Another job he had was painting which he studied in the U.S. and in Europe. He opened a studio
Some of the common forms of entertainment are television shows and movies, but there is also another form of entertainment that manages to bring family, friends, and just people in general together. Sports manages to do that, and it doesn’t even matter if you know the person or not, what matters is that you happen to share a common interest. I’ll admit I’m not the biggest fan of sports, but one sport that I am a huge fan of is soccer. Players don’t score many points in an average game of soccer,
A pie aimed at a face, six buckets nailed to a board, calling it a “grand prize game”, now that was children’s television. It is hard to believe that something as simple as that already satisfied a child’s need and thirst for entertainment, a simpler time and way of life. In today’s day and age of over 500-channel cables and satellite television, HDTV, and not to mention the Internet and Netflix, it could be challenging to envision a period when home entertainment consisted mainly of a half-dozen
ever. Also I will talk about Wired communication which is one of the older technologies but now we have several different types of media forms on wired communications and they all do a different job. Wireless Technologies could be satellite links or Radio communication. They all have good and bad points to discuss. Wired Technology could include twisted pair, Fibre optic or broadband over power lines. Wireless communication has transformed the way we communicate to each other.
Click. On goes the television, off goes your mind. Click. Boring. Click. Seen it. Click. It will do. Barbara Ehrenreich’s argument that television is corrupting social society is valid for the once great mode of communication has become a couch potato breeding machine. The remote one holds in their hand not only controls the telly, but also their mind and actions. Barbara Ehrenreich characterized people in the 1980s in her book, entitled The Worst Years of Our Lives, as “couch potatoes”(28) that