Radio programming

He was performing on Broadway in the musical “Roberta” when he first set eyes on nightclub singer Dolores Reade. It was true love and they got married in 1934. She was his wife till the very end. In 1938 Hope was able to start his own radio program called “The Bob Hope Show” and it lasted for 18 years. He had great success in the movies due to seven movies he made with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. These were the popular “Road” series movies such as “Road to Singapore”, “Road to Morocco”, “Road to Utopia” and Road to Rio”. Bob Hope jumped on the bandwagon of entertainers who performed for American servicemen in WWII. By the time 1953 rolled in he had performed before over a million American servicemen in countries all around the world. During the Vietnam War in 1966 around 65 million people watched Hope perform for U.S. troops on Christmas Eve. He was also legendary for his TV specials and hosted the Academy Awards 18 times. Along the way he got some nicknames such as “Mr…

The Golden Age of Radio lasted roughly around 1930 through 1940. That time was when the medium of commercial broadcast radio grew into the fabric of daily life in the United States. One time they provided news and entertainment to a country struggling with economic depression and war and much of the programming heard by listeners was controlled by advertising agencies which included the shows hired the talent and staff. Sometimes they draw performers directly from the old vaudeville theatre…

Commercial Media is fueled simultaneously by the demands of the audience, but also by the advertisers and what they want the audience to consume. In a world where success is evaluated numerically, Radio is no exception this. Radio Stations are driven by ratings, a system that gives broadcasters an indication on the popularity of variables such as content, broadcasters and programming. How ratings and results are collected has changed numerous times to reach the few systems currently used…

interactions between people. Before the radio mass culture was essentially non-existent, the culture was defined to local communities through the daily interactions of people ("Mass Culture - Oxford Reference"). When radio was popularized it became the common source of media that brought communities of the United States of America together by providing it with a common culture. This paper will focus on the birth of radio in the 1920s, elucidating how advances in radio brought about a newer…

They also met with people who worked with ESPN and made sure that the live coverage of sports events would not put us out of compliance with any contracts. The department also brainstormed possible places that Falcon Radio could be housed and met with people in charge of facilities at NDC. The Programming team brainstormed about what types of music and radio programming would be attractive for students to listen to, how we could incorporate live shows with current events, sports, and campus…

Prior to the act in 1996, the U.S. telecommunications industry was a monopoly and the act opened the doors to anybody who wanted to be a part of the communications industry. Although it opened the doors to anybody it also led to concentration of media ownership. Concentration of media ownership is essentially when few organizations or individuals own different facets of the media. Early in 2002, three of the five most recognizable conglomerates were Walt Disney, AOL/Time-Warner, and the News…

different time. People living in these areas were exposed to broadcast media far less than the people from the urban areas, and people from rural areas did not really take part in the shared culture. But due to the radio the situation completely changed. The Radio connected rural America to urban America in this culture…

Once early radio legislation, such as the Radio Act of 1912, determined that radio would be a commercial system, the primary question facing the industry was: how will radio be funded? This was resolved by the introduction of 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…

RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, was formed in October 1919 by major radio interests, General Electric, Westinghouse, the United Fruit Company (UFC), and AT&T, to pool patents and research, and to coordinate radio development. Its formation received congressional support due to its ability to keep radio control in US hands in the face of foreign competitors like Marconi and after Congress denied the Navy of control of radio in the 1918 Congressional Radio Hearings which also excluded…

sphere that it could be without it. Television has made America dependent on it by having round-the-clock news, creating a new way to view politics, and a false sense of reality. Before television, our news was based off of newspapers and the radio. Now with the click of a couple of buttons, America is granted access to round-the-clock news that is not always as accurate as it might…