Old-time radio

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 “wardrobe malfunction” incident that involved Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake during the professional…

The telegraph is developed during the 1800s, which is the time when people still strongly raise doubt on any new technology, and they believe that the telegraph is merely a magic trick or just a figment of somebody’s imagination. In addition, when the idea of expanding the use of telegraph is introduced to the…

July 21, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on August 11, 2014 by suicide. He hung himself. He was married to Susan Schneider at the time. He had three children. I researched Major Depression Disorder, or MDD. MDD is also called clinical depression. Depression is a serious mood disorder. It can cause people to have a hard time handling life. Many people have a hard time thinking, feeling, or just doing normal, everyday activities. Some activities include sleeping, eating, or working. There are…

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,…

John Mckenna spoke of how he became interested in music. Then mentioned being in a band and doing gigs. Then that leads to playing at the 2nd Clinton augral which ended up on TV which was watched by his mom who dissaprove of his music. Needless to say his mother is not like with him. That was a very cool story to hear. The closest I have come to that is my first paid camera running gig. Eve White-Brown ‘s story was about dealing with a problem with her voice. She said that she could have…

“people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do”. In order to be successful, one must believe they can do anything they put their mind to. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an inventor in the I800’s (“Science and Its Times,” 2000). Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Morse had turned into an inventor in the 1800’s. Samuel Finley Breese Morse’s invention of the telegraph impacted the world by providing a way to communicate over long distances, without delay.…

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…

organization in charge of regulating broadcasting and telecommunications. They regulate things such as service providers and advertisements. For example, an alcohol commercial cannot show anyone actually drinking alcohol or show anyone under 25 years old holding alcohol (https://www.adstandards.com/en/clearance/alcoholicBeverages/ASCAlcoholicBeverageAdvertisingClearanceGuide.pdf). However, they do not restrict freedom of speech in media. For example, in Canada, negative reports of politicians…

Montag. The scary thing about their relationship is that they got married so early they forgot how they actually met because the two isolate themselves from one another. Guy is always off working and Mildred spends all of her time either watching television or listening to the radio. When the two actually do talk to one another, Mildred is usually asking for another t.v. or another gadget to play with. Throughout the novel Bradbury gives hints about what he thinks the future of marriages and…