Public broadcasting

words, in the post-broadcast era, narrowcasting is an effective communication method by which the President can gain leverage. Today’s political context largely consists of polarized parties and fragmented media, which deems broadcasting messages ineffective in rallying the public to pressure members of the Congress to support the President. When employing narrowcasting the President primarily targets three subsets: their party base, interest groups, and localities in order for these groups to…

Ten Network Holdings owned Network Ten, one of the various five free-to-air channels in Australia, is an Australian commercial broadcasting network. The headquarters are located in Pyrmont, New South Wales, however stations can be found in all capital cities of Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane, airing to televisions all around the country. The channel, part of a slowly disintegrating form of media consumption has encountered a large loss, however, has attempted to stay up to date…

Frequently, in public places, such as stores, restaurants and shopping malls, I witness adolescents with their heads turned downward staring at a small blue screen, texting or scrolling through social media. Clearly, there is little to no interpersonal interaction occurring…

One company that I previously interned for and would be interested in pursuing a career at is WGBH, a radio and television facility located in the Brighton suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. The first thing I wanted to know is what the call letters WGBH stand for. After some research I discovered that the “W” – indicates that the station is located east of the Mississippi River (a “K” is used for stations to the west) and “GBH” - stands for Great Blue Hill (named for the blue hue of the granite…

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…

an authoritative tone as he writes: “Shouldn't the weight of thousands of such studies be sufficient to persuade broadcasters, required by law since the 1930s to serve the public interest, to change the content of television programming?” While writing in this manner, he conveys his frustration over the workings of the public that he deems redundant, all the while steering the readers into believing his argument, implying the alternative as foolishness. Moreover, the writer frequently uses…

as the golden age of television due to the high popularity the shows held and some even hold still today. Some examples of those shows Toast of the Town and Gunsmoke. The 1960s brought television journalism and an evolved for of noncommercial broadcasting. Cable television also started to grow in the 1960s.…

While we see media every day in our own lives, media has been there since the first colonies of America but a lot has changed since then. Media can generally be defined as a means of communication that reaches or influences a large or wide audience. Although media is something that we experience every day and most likely something we do ourselves, it has been around for a much longer time than people think. One of the first forms of media in America was the Publik Occurrence newspaper in 1690.…

Despite that the first television station in Chile was established in Valparaiso, a port city two hours distant from Santiago, the capital, broadcasting is a highly centralized industry and this feature has been consolidating since the early 1990s. “The transition initiated a period of major transformation, with the introduction of privately owned commercial broadcasting and cable television. The advent of these new outlets consolidated a U.S.-style commercial model, stimulated cross-media…

Television In Canada there is only one national television network which is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It is a crown corporation which means that it is affiliated with the government, however today crown corporations see minimal interference from the government. Other networks across Canada appeal to a wide variety of interests. An important factor for television is that a small amount of content is actually made in Canada, while a considerable amount of channels show…