Broadcasting

Radio’s dad died a while back Coach Jones had found out from Radio’s mother. The coach also finds out that Radio’s real name is James Robert Kennedy. Radio ends up not being allowed to get on the bus with the football team to travel to the game. The last football game for the season, Radio gets to keep the game ball. Frank (coach’s “friend”) calls Radio a distraction on the sidelines during a football game and it offends the coach. The school board assumes Radio is a distraction in a classroom…

It's like a smoke in the mirror or a string that pulls us closer, and closer every time our minds tries to escape the magnitude of advertisements placed upon us. Therefore, I sat in the dark corners of my room and asked myself, are our minds ever going to find peace and tranquility to think on its own as long as these ads are embedded within us? From the very instant we open our eyes in the morning, these advertisement’s start to find their ways in our brains, “at the rate of about three…

Advertisements are everywhere. Whether they are on television, a magazine, or on the radio, there is no way that you can avoid them. They all have their audience that they aim for, who they have clearly designed the ad for, and of course they are making money off the product. This multi billion dollar business and the advertiser's study all the ways that they can attract a person’s attention. The best advertisements get people talking. In reality TV, online networking, music, and even politics,…

My media diary test shows me that my media time spending is very diverse. I classified my media usage into three categories, news & social networking, entertainment, and study. For all three type of usages, I calculated the time-use for each type and found out that I am in favor of social media most. During the testing time, I spent 115 minutes media time in day one and 160 minutes in day two. My average time spending for social media is about 135 minutes/day. It shows that I should have enough…

War of The Worlds created by Orson Wells was a radio drama that caused panic on halloween eve because of its realistic sounds.The radio drama was broadcasted on halloween eve and caused panic. The radio show war of the worlds created panic on halloween eve to listeners who did not hear the first public announcement and by the time the second public service announcement came by the listeners were already fleeing the country. The professional sound actors made it easy to belive , they acted as…

Just like how Lessig argues the internet’s cyberspace is regulated by its code. This same argument can be also be said about a certain pre-1980’s system of communication, the radio. The internet and the radio share many similarities to each other. One is that they were both created to benefit the military, both were used by nearly most of the American population, and lastly, both gave the U.S. government a new way to create a new set of “code” to control and regulate American society. During…

If you have ever taken a road trip or been stuck at the office during a long day chances are there is music playing. Music and news reporting can keep the mind awake and alert. What most people hate are commercials and ads, they just want to listen to music and other variety of talk shows through radio, computer, and even smartphones and tablets. Sirius Satellite Radio has the services to provide consumers with what they want and so much more. Sirius Satellite Radio is one of the largest radio…

Commercials are created as a means of advertising products through a thirty second video that is intended to evoke a certain emotion in the viewer. This emotion is used as a persuasion mechanism that persuades individuals to buy the product being advertised. Commercials and advertisements are often created to cater to a specific audience whether it be individuals of a certain race, weight, sex, or age, advertisers carefully choose specific colors, words, tones, and music to evoke an emotion and…

Everyday people see hundreds of advertisements from the moment they wake up, go into town and come home. Advertisements are in our magazines, on our televisions, and in the streets and the purpose that they bring is to persuade us to purchase a product and to believe a certain idea. What the advertiser wants to tell to us depends on whom the targeted audience is and the product or lifestyle choice they want to persuade us about. Another purpose of advertising, is for the messages in these ads to…

“Extra! Extra! Read all about it”. Read? Nobody reads the newspaper anymore. Today, the world gets their news from television news programs and social media. News channels are also delivering news information very differently now. For many critics, television news is as much about entertainment as it is about communicating information. According to Robert Stam’s article “Television News and Its Spectator,” and Jeffrey Jones’s article “Fox and Friends: Political Talk”, television news offers many…