Broadcasting

Information Box or Idiot Box How television was used, and its purpose for the world? Having probably surpassed the hopes and dreams of its creators, the television has made a huge impact on the lives of billions of people. The “boob tube” or “idiot box” was initially used to help advertisers sell their products; however, it has become a means of rapidly informing the world of current events and other forms of entertainment. Widespread panic that took place in 2009 as the June 12th switch from…

(1948-1960) In the tracing of the social and historical connections of the genre many authors consider “Candid Camera” as the first reality show. Emerging as a Radio show , in 1948 this show gets its TV version followed by great popularity. The show illustrates situations in which ordinary people are found in unordinary situations with comic outcomes (E.g. Woman asks help for her car, when passersby learns that the car has no engine). The hidden cameras from many angles follow the actions, and…

Many people listen to the radio that is at least half of the population listens to the entertainment, to get music, to hear to news and get information concerning travels. This company generates lots of millions of cash to the government in the form of revenues starting from the year 2004 up to date. This industry is seen to have contributed lots of employment to the residents and hence providing lots of money through the direct and indirect means. Since the amounts of revenues have reduced the…

Prior to the invention of Television, studios depended on big stars, studio owned theaters and an contracted assembly line of movie production. Dark rooms with big screens drew crowds in the millions at the height of Hollywood. With Television’s inception, millions of viewers began tuning into these 12x12 inch boxes for an average five hours daily. Box office sales were hit hard by less movie attendees. Within a decade of the introduction of Television, box office sales are fractionalized.…

Advertisers make no mistakes or coincidences when designing their ads to sell their products or get viewers attentions and interest . They get paid a lot of money to target an audience, draw them in, and get them to make the switch to their product or service. In today’s day and age, ads are everywhere and for everything, including shoes, clothes, beer, perfumes, cars, and politicians, just to name a few. They cover the majority of magazine pages, a good portion of television time, freeways and…

In the 21st Century, we are continuously bombarded with countless advertisement. These modern ads, however, differ from our grandparents’ ads that were crystal and to the point. In this extreme capitalist era, advertisers have grown more cunning in the way they influence our emotions and understanding of the world. These modern ads have their explicit meaning for everyone to see and understand: to buy such products for such reasons. However, a much deeper implicit meaning is engraved in in our…

In “The Language of Advertising” by Charles A. O’Neill he states, “At heart, advertising is nothing more than the delivery system for salesmanship, something that is woven into the fabric of our society.” (371) Businesses are always trying to make more money. O’Neill does this by having a deal to go with the product that is usually too good to be true, or upselling your already purchased item. The idea is to make the customer feel good about what they are buying. O’Neill would use marketing…

When people envision what television is today it is quite simple: a large screen with HD quality and hundreds of channels which are easy to access. Unbelievably there was a time where television was not like that, where quality was not all that mattered, where viewers only had a certain amount of channels to access. Welcome to Maria Paulercio’s television era, the 1950s. Television has transformed dramatically since the 1950’s from the look to what was produced and put on the air. It had an…

The first television broadcast has led the way for many accomplishments over the years since 1936. Americans went through a life changing sequence of events that has shaped the way we live today in the twenty-first century. Though the television has given us great opportunities to shape the world to what it is today, it has not shaped the world into the perfect 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…

I am writing to applaud you regarding your article “Words Triumph Over Images”. So many people today go straight to the tv to get their news and current events. We live in a world where we believe everything we see on tv, even though the stories are often not true and provide a shock factor. Tv can be much more entertaining than reading it in the newspaper or hearing it on the radio, however many tv stations and journalists just want people to watch so they will say things that get the attention…