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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…

One comparison that I would like to note, is the way the radio is portrayed throughout the movie. There are several scenes throughout the entire movie where a radio was used. One specific scene is towards the end of the movie, where Red Pollard is not able to race because of his injuries. Instead, he gets to hear the entire race, in detail, while listening to his radio (Ross, 1:40). All throughout the movie, there are scenes similar to this one. Whether it was families listening to a broadcast,…

This article, Television Beyond the Networks, offers case studies on first-run scripted syndicated programs that expresses a national audience through syndication in the United States during the 1970s. Even though certain programs, Rosen’s Story Theatre and Mary Hartman for example, despised the efforts to operate outside the networks distribution circuits, these series faced challenges that a range factors in the dominance of the network era. The body of television programming created and…

History of television in the initial stages was marked by patent wars, testing plans and various demonstrations of technology but not a great deal of programming. On July 1, 1941, NBC became the first network to launch a commercially sponsored broadcast and was soon followed by CBS and others. But with the advent of World War II The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned the commercial production of TV equipment for the duration of war. People craved for TV especially after the Great…

Jean Ross is the radio personality for V-103’s radio station. Her first ever interview was with Muhammad Ali. Ms. Ross’s job background is a years worth of accomplishments and experiences. Her position and role at the radio station, career path, and experiences, is something well worth knowing. Position and Role at the Radio Station Interviewing a radio personality has its perks because you learn about the work you wouldn’t know they would have to take on in their particular job. Ms. Ross…

Today, television is an incredibly large part of basic American culture, with many people’s lives revolving completely around the little screens, or sometimes large, that dominate nearly every single living room in the modern family’s home. But, in the late 1940s, when TV was first introduced, this wasn’t the case. Television has always been on a rollercoaster between fads, and new technologies introduced throughout the decades. But one of the overall most influential decades for the television…

and movies have been controlled by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) everything we view is regulated in some way by the government. We had acts enforced, rules established and other types of regulations. The FCC is like the police for broadcasting it can fine broadcasters for violating anything that airs on television. The FCC has done this many times before for example an article from CNN.com posted in June, 2012 by Bill Mears states that the FCC had fined CBS $550,000 for airing the…

Television as almost everything in life has had an evolution. The way we think of television is very different than the way our ancestors did. Television has been around since the late 1920’s. However, back in the day it was a very expensive luxury that only the elite could afford. With the passage of years television became more accessible and as a consequence more popular. In the 1950’s television was considered to be the primary medium in which many families gathered their information.…

Could you imagine not being able to listen to your favorite songs on the radio? Had the radio not been invented in the 1920s that would be the case. “The first commercial radio station in the U.S., Pittsburgh’s KDKA, hit the airwaves in 1920... By the end of the 1920s, there were radios in more than 12 million households” (“The Roaring Twenties”). In addition to the radios there was much more going on in the 20s. During the 1920s there was several things taking place such as Prohibition,…

“Product Placement and Advergaming” by Michael Solomon describes how movies and video games are advertising companies’ products. Product placement had begun in the late eighteen hundreds. The purpose of product placement was to get better ways of doing advertisement on television shows and movies. It first started with movies and shows changing up the company name to something similar. With product placements happening many products were able to be sold, just like Coca-Cola being used on…