Media and Culture an introduction to mass communication

Amos and Andy

A show about poor black folk it was so population daily lives rearranged schedules just so people would be able to listen to the show. it failed on TV due to the need of imagination for its success.

1940's TV

As soon as the war was over TV took off listeners of radio was greatly due to the war.

1921

Broadcasting first appears in government publications

Federal Radio Commission

Created under the Radio Act of 1927 this was a temporary committee that eventually grew into the FCC

1860

Existence of spectrum theorized

Wireless ship act

First regulation requires all ships to have broadcasting for safety

1933

Long Ranger used William Tell overture because no copyright and no need to pay for the music

Radio's historic roles

Mass commercial medium of entertainment and supplemental medium of music and information.

3 radio stations

NBC Red & Blue named for the wires CBS.

Radio being mass medium

Now it has shifted to supplemental medium

1940's radio

Radio goes to war and broadcast it radio become new not just entertainment. It was new people could hear the broadcasts from the war zone. Hearing bombs and gunfire.

Radio as public resource

Radio is free with a liesence they must broadcast in the publics best interest

Radio & Music

Radio needs music to survive

1950

Radio was labeled music box

Radio's golden era

Radio was most listened to the evening show it has shifted to mornings.

1910's

Radio was still point to point communications pre-broadcasting was experimental sort of long distance phone. wireless nick name for radio

1877

Radio waves discovered by Heinrich Hertz to honor his name that is where we get Mega Hertz, Giga Hertz

by 1927 coast to coast service

Stations linked net works

1907

Term radio first used in DeForest article; adopted by U.S. Navy

Broadcasting

The dissemination of radio waves intended for general use by large number of people.

1901

Wireless Morse code transmitted by Marconi; Also development of wireless telegraphy By DeForest

Broadcast licenses

are free the radio stations must broadcast in the best interests of the public.

1920's Radio

becomes commercial medium

Narrowcasting

broadcasting that is targeted to one small sector of the population

Court rules for radio

courts rule against Commerce dept ran by Herbert Hoover congress does not have the right to issue licenses issued during the Radio Conferences

Telegraph is

is point to point communication original broadcast

Poll broadcasting

leasing a stations air time 1922 first commercial

1938 War of the worlds broadcast

people believed media of reporting nothing but the truth opposite of today.

1930's radio

programming became indispensable became important part of dialog

1922 radio

radio listener has gown to about 1 million radio's nation wide.

Scarcity of air waves

the air waves are limited thats why it called best interest

Radio Act 1912

the first radio legislation passed by Congress, it addressed the problem of amateur radio operators increasingly cramming the airwaves

1920 Elections

this became the very first broadcast that was live. The broadcast of a local Pittsburg, PA election. It appealed to the elite. few had radio's only the richer.

Magic medium

this was a term used to describe radio because it was the first time news came into the home versus going to the movies to see it.

Point to point

went to narrow casting broadcasting to select few like our local stations.

Radio and TV

will get license for free and musty broacast for publics best interest.