One company that I previously interned for and would be interested in pursuing a career at is WGBH, a radio and television facility located in the Brighton suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. The first thing I wanted to know is what the call letters WGBH stand for. After some research I discovered that the “W” – indicates that the station is located east of the Mississippi River (a “K” is used for stations to the west) and “GBH” - stands for Great Blue Hill (named for the blue hue of the granite…
political context; in other words, in the post-broadcast era, narrowcasting is an effective communication method by which the President can gain leverage. Today’s political context largely consists of polarized parties and fragmented media, which deems broadcasting messages ineffective in rallying the public to pressure members of the Congress to support the President. When employing narrowcasting the President primarily targets three subsets: their party base, interest groups, and localities…
While we see media every day in our own lives, media has been there since the first colonies of America but a lot has changed since then. Media can generally be defined as a means of communication that reaches or influences a large or wide audience. Although media is something that we experience every day and most likely something we do ourselves, it has been around for a much longer time than people think. One of the first forms of media in America was the Publik Occurrence newspaper in 1690.…
of the masses to control the subconscious of all society, in order to create a society where people obey the dominant forces that shape policy, norms, and knowledge. A prominent example would be the “Fox News Effect,” which exemplifies how the broadcasting of Fox News on cable network is a key factor in the voting for republican candidates (Bartlett 8). This a problem, considering some republicans believe global warming was invented by the Chinese, thus allows the viewers to avoid the urgency…
as the golden age of television due to the high popularity the shows held and some even hold still today. Some examples of those shows Toast of the Town and Gunsmoke. The 1960s brought television journalism and an evolved for of noncommercial broadcasting. Cable television also started to grow in the 1960s.…
22. There used to be an old phrase in this country, employed when someone talked too much. I am grateful to all of you for not having employed it earlier. The phrase was: "Go hire a hall." Under this proposal, the sponsor would have hired the hall; he has bought the time. The local station operator, no matter how indifferent, is going to carry the program--he has to--he's getting paid for it. Then it's up to the networks to fill the hall. I am not here talking about editorializing but about…
Despite that the first television station in Chile was established in Valparaiso, a port city two hours distant from Santiago, the capital, broadcasting is a highly centralized industry and this feature has been consolidating since the early 1990s. “The transition initiated a period of major transformation, with the introduction of privately owned commercial broadcasting and cable television. The advent of these new outlets consolidated a U.S.-style commercial model, stimulated cross-media…
Television In Canada there is only one national television network which is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It is a crown corporation which means that it is affiliated with the government, however today crown corporations see minimal interference from the government. Other networks across Canada appeal to a wide variety of interests. An important factor for television is that a small amount of content is actually made in Canada, while a considerable amount of channels show…
fear-inspiring words, such as ‘hurt’ and ‘agitation’, are also used to convince the reader of the harmful effects of television programs by the use of their negative connotations. With regards to his use of personification, Stossel writes: “The broadcasting industry slips quietly away, barely chastened.” Here as he demonstrates the cyclic disaffection to change, he exhibits the actions of the government and industry to the reader on an easy to understand level. While in conjunction with these…
other wars like the Korean war or the Vietnam war many citizens were tuning in on the latest update on the wars that occurred. Also, the radio broadcasted began broadcasting presidential elections. In 1920, KDKA broadcast the results of the Jarding-Cox Presidential election. By 1922 local stations across the United States were broadcasting sermons, political speeches, and much other information that people wanted to share ("The Golden Age"). Also, the radio can be informative with general things…