Broadcasting

When we turn on the TV to watch the news, how is that image being projected through our TV? When we call a family member on the other side of the world, what technology is making it possible? The main device being used to send those signals is a satellite. The creation of satellites was a huge breakthrough for technology; it gave the populace a chance to communicate with anyone on the planet. This technology has needed to change and evolve to meet the increasing demand of the world population.…

if only briefly, that the United States was being laid waste by alien invaders,” narrator Oliver Platt informs us in the new PBS documentary celebrating the program. It was staged as a Halloween episode on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Broadcasting System radio network. It was said to have caused wide ranged panic, but did not last long. Some panicked when they heard the Martians'…

The television as we know it is one of the greatest inventions to this very day. Its purpose was to transmit information in the form of constant moving images. Although the television is now used for entertainment, and taking in the vast amounts of information it also has negative effects on our society. It is apparent that we as a society have limited ourselves and started giving the T.V. the control. For example, we placed the T.V. in places where they shouldn’t be such as churches, hospitals,…

advertising to the airwaves, which set a number of precedents upon which modern media, principally, television and the internet, receive funding create their programming. As expressed by Michele Hilmes in her work Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States and radio programs of the day, one major precedent set by radio was the goals and quality standards of advertising which resulted in indirect advertisements that maintained radio’s entertainment value. However,…

networks to keep up with the metropolitan networks. Earlier this year in February, the ABC quoted “Media companies have generally welcomed the Turnbull Government’s sweeping changes to Australia’s ownership laws, which would scrap rules that restrict broadcasting and allow more freedom in cross-platform ownership.” The Government had decided that they would revoke two of the media…

From the beginning of time, human civilization has fed upon the circulating world of obtaining, assembling, and broadcasting information upon a wide-spread scale. With sources ranging from the earliest form of publicized word to the current reality of active pictures and dramatic screenplay, society has been infused with an environment of news broadcast. Unfortunately, since the creation of television journalism, the overall goal has shifted from knowledgeable reports to pure entertainment. A…

pretenses or lack of variety. Medoff and Kaye indicate, only a few voices are heard and the range of information, viewpoints, and opinion is limited through vertical integration (2011, p.69). The federal government has sought to maintain diversity in broadcasting keeping as many voices and viewpoints on the air as possible, yet more difficult to maintain as more cable and online content competes with newspapers and broadcast stations (Business and Ownership, 2011, p.189). The federal government…

Broadcasting presidential elections on television has been influential in the United States since the 1960’s. Some think it has heavily influenced who is elected, made elections fairer and more accessible, and even moved candidates from pursuing issues to pursuing image. Holding a presidential election today without a television debate would seem almost undemocratic, that’s not what many people thought at the time of the first debates. First of all, the advent of television in the late 1940’s…

My dad names these “three S’s” as the most common factors of distraction for mankind, and says that they tend to make people forget about the more significant things in life. Most specifically, today’s pop culture has made screen or television broadcasting so popular that most people cannot imagine living in a world where such things do not exist. As a matter of fact, media has not only become an accessible tool, but a habit and ritual in most peoples’ lives. In the midst of screen influence,…

Whether it’s to know your weekly weather, to stay up to date on citywide information, or to be the source of any and all information when disaster strikes, the news is where people go. The Columbia Broadcasting System, or CBS, began in 1927 and continues today as an active news television network. For years CBS has been keeping their viewers up to date on all of the information they need to know to help them get through the day. The end of every day became special because the CBS Evening News…