Old-time radio

It’s around 5 pm in the evening when I usually sit down on the couch and watch the news on TV with my parents. My parents speak little English so we stick with a Spanish news program called Al Rojo Vivo on Telemundo. I sometimes look at some news articles that show up on Yahoo while I go through my emails, but besides that I don’t really pay too much attention to it even though I know I should. The news program I watch has deal with how police have mistreated the people in the community and…

I was sitting with my wife watching the tele, a rarity in that most of my leisure time is spent reading, my wife is not a big tele fan but it was on, and we were sitting, and such was my experience. The segment that appeared was of a US senator describing what he called his mission to encourage people to be more American, better patriots. This in fact was old news in that the exploits of this particular politician was becoming more and more famous. He was known to actually weep during what I can…

Australian culture and identity during that decade. History/Intro – TV began in 195X Advertising – coke, sunglasses TV Shows – sesame street, moon landing 1969 Personalities – elvis, beatles, catch phrases? Conclusion INTRODUCTION The 1960s was period of time that saw great changes in Australian society due to the evolution of popular culture. During the 1960s, technological advances allowed American and British cultural influences to rapidly filter into Australia - through music, cinema,…

be a total thief, he rehashed monologs from his vaudeville days. (Wertheim 64) Despite his reputation of stealing and rehashing old material, Milton Berle’s entertainment value made the jokes and antics fresh for the audience. Along with vaudeville humor and recycling material, he also developed a personality that was acceptable to the television audience at the time. (Wertheim 68) This personality was developed due to his work in the New York nightclub…

material, and gets the best rating, gets to stay on the show. This means that the writers can change throughout the series, or even part way through a season: “They have to please advertisers who want to see good ratings on the programs on which they buy time for their commercials” (Berman…

During the “Golden Age of Television,” which lasted from 1950-1970, America underwent a number of ideological and social changes, many of which can be found both on the television screen and in real life. Two sitcoms in particular exemplify these changes. Beulah, which was one of the first television shows to feature a black protagonist, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show which highlighted a career driven single women living in the city. Between the twenty year intermission between the makings of…

the party. With television the viewer is able to take image and base their vote of that instead of the candidate's actions. Television has made elections more accessible but has made the voter vote image over issues. Presidential elections through radio allows the voter to listen to the issues and actions that the candidate is addressing. With television the voter is…

watched because the viewing public trusts the anchor’s credibility. Williams falls into this category due to his coherent progression in describing the event exactly how it happened. He does not rush to judgment, but rather to let facts emerge over time. Fabricating events to sell a story that may very well be more entertaining than the original is not Williams’s style of news anchoring. He is honest, open, and unbiased presenting the news. On an NBC broadcast network, Nightly News with Brian…

The increase in commitments that people have in their lives make it harder and harder to make it to church for a few hours one day. With the convenience of watching it in your own home, it is easier to be able to practice the religion on your own time. I watched the sermon online at 9PM in my bed in New York as it…

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…