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years ago, RadioShack was known as a multibillion dollar company and one of the nation’s largest retailers of electronics. The business was started by two young brothers Theodore and Milton Deutschmann from London, England in 1921. The brothers opened the initial store in downtown Boston to provide the public with radio equipment, sales and services. In addition, the company was a leading provider of “ham” radio and ship radio equipment to consumers. RadioShack would grow slightly as a very…

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…

media has risen, the United States has seen a decline in the harshness of religiosity. Religion was once a pathway of life for many individuals but today, religion seems to have become just another channel on your television. The Evangelistic church is one that shows a very apparent use of media to spread their religion. The media is best suited for a church much like the evangelical movement in Houston Texas because it can play a very important role in spreading the word and beliefs of the…

Alexander Graham Bell: The Man behind the Telephone We live in the 21st Century, the age of scientific and technological advancements. One aspect of life that humans take for granted is communication. When the word, “Phone” is said, the phone companies like “Apple”, or “Samsung” automatically come to mind. Companies have attempted to innovate the phone for a great length of years, and that is why modern-day telephones and cellular devices are cosmetically sleek, futuristic, and more sufficient…

not being productive, the thought processes one has. Watching TV is bad for one’s health. So many Americans have been turned into couch potatoes. Figure one is what so many Americans turn into every evening, all day on the weekends. Who can blame them? TV is something that draws one in whether one likes it or not. Even if people try not to watch TV; when it is on in the room, even if it is just audible, then…

Armstrong, a brilliant innovator of radio technology, spent more than twenty years fighting the legal battle between himself and de Forest as to who was the rightful patent-holder of the Audion circuit system that Armstrong had created using de Forest’s Audion. As Armstrong began to move on and discovered FM radio, Sarnoff did everything and anything in his power to prevent Armstrong’s FM frequency radio from being mass-produced. He didn’t do this in the name of radio technology, but because it…

personally agree with that statement I can see where people would come to that conclusion from. Personal electronic devices are more addicted to people in today’s society than any other addiction in human history. No other time in history has there been one sole thing that near every human has and uses constantly with little regard for what they are actually using. In addition to Personal electronic devices something that people have to look out for is the development of artificial inelegance.…

War was a war over intimidation and superiority one thing that both the United States and the Soviet Union depended on is propaganda. One type of propaganda that was used frequently was radio propaganda. Both the United States and the Soviet Union depended on Radio Propaganda to convey certain ideals to many individuals. Radio propaganda was used frequently during the early stages of the Cold War since many people owned radios. The United States…

anyone globally. Due to many cell phone users globally, it is important to understand, investigate and know any potential health impact it may cause to the public (World Health Organization, 2014). Cell Phones allow communication by transmitting radio…

I am a sports analyst for a radio station in Ghana called Gaskiya Fm transmitting on the frequency 105.5 mhz and on tunein as Gaskiya Fm. Recently, there was a conflict encountered at Gaskiya Fm and I will like to share it and analyse it with the critical thinking tools studied at UoPeople. A standard radio sports show in Ghana should last for a duration of two hours. 30 minutes dedicated to foreign news, 30 minutes for local news, 40 minutes for analysis of the news and 20 minutes for…