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this. Closing, television has changed for the betterment of re-runs, to audience and viewers and of course, money and advertisement. The audience intentions and interests changes overtime, which makes producers air re-runs or start production on a new program. Works…

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…

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 is an Operations Manager, News Director, and Program Manager at V-103, one of the most listened radio stations in Atlanta. She has been in the radio industry for more than 25 years. One of her roles at the radio station is hiring people. Ms. Ross advised me when hiring people…

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 the evolution of the entertainment aired for the people through it. In the early part of the 1960’s, the first nationally…

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…

Sacrifices Every day, people are bombarded with thousands of advertisements. For example; billboards, magazines, social media and clothing are just some of the few ways companies advertise their products. According to Naomi Klein, an author in The Persuaders, “Consumers are like roaches. You spray them and spray them and after a while it doesn’t work anymore. We develop immunities.” People have become accustomed to the constant interruption of advertising. Ads are perceived as a nuisance and…

Summary: Echols’ article begins by discussing how the medium of radio was effectively used for storytelling, particularly in telling horror stories. She does not immediately offer her thesis in this introduction, but rather gradually builds up to it by introducing key elements of her argument throughout the introduction. One important element she mentions is that radio was about “focusing on the individual listener” (43), particularly by making the audience identify with the characters and…

buy out from Fox News, owned by Murdoch, “If you had a merger with another global network, which will remain nameless, they could change it to a network with a political agenda.” (9th April 2014). It is important that a business does not try to influence political decisions of its consumers, when its sole purpose is to entertain. If Fox News was to overtake the network they which could easily influence the decisions of consumers, as they do in the United States, and create news and programming…