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listened to through CDs, cassettes and the radio. My mother Raj, a woman who grew up in the 60s, recalls, “during [her] childhood much of the music that [she] was exposed to came from the radio (Tewathia, 2014).” Today, I am able to access millions of songs from thousands of artists all at the convenience of a super computer I keep in my pocket, while my mother had to tune in and listen to whatever content was being funneled through the limited radio stations she could…

Kosnick was interested in the impact of representation and what having a voice means in contemporary Berlin. In hopes of studying these in detail, she knew she had to change her etic lens and see her subject from another perspective. Striving to observe the differences between different Berlin-broadcasted radio stations, Kosnick began working as a journalist for one of them in the early 90s; the name of this station was Radio Multikulti. Her work experience here instantly brings value and…

within the areas of rivalry, barriers to entry, bargaining powers of suppliers and buyers, and the threat of substitutes. For SiriusXM to remain competitive within the radio broadcast industry, they must carefully monitor and address each of these forces. Rivalry Intensity – (Strong). Rivalry within the radio broadcast industry is a strong force, as many options are available to consumers. Whether it is online/streaming or terrestrial broadcasting, large competitors such as, iheart media,…

deserving of recognition is a story from Bell’s book entitled “I’ll Die with the Words on My Lips.” It is an incredible story about a journalist by the name of Lelenne Gilles. Lelenne begins her story by talking about how as she was a child, she would always be deeply disturbed by the fact that so many kids her age could not afford to go to school. She would always speak up about this and ask teachers in her school why things couldn’t be different. When she got older, she was offered a job at…

the invention of radio has caused the most impact for society as it provided society with easier communication and later on entertainment alongside with access to information. Guliemlo Maroni the Italian man who is credited as the inventor of radio. Marconi read a biography from Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist who proved the theory of electromagnetic waves to which Marconi used his experiment by sending transmissions from one side of the room to the other. Marconi took his idea to the Italian…

Prior to the act in 1996, the U.S. telecommunications industry was a monopoly and the act opened the doors to anybody who wanted to be a part of the communications industry. Although it opened the doors to anybody it also led to concentration of media ownership. Concentration of media ownership is essentially when few organizations or individuals own different facets of the media. Early in 2002, three of the five most recognizable conglomerates were Walt Disney, AOL/Time-Warner, and the News…

In 1970, the FCC adopted its prohibition of cross-media ownership between FM radio stations and television stations within the same market. The FCC under the Nixon Administration prohibited newspaper cross ownership of radio or television stations (Yanich, 2014). When the Commission adopted the rule, it grandfathered newspaper/broadcast combinations in many markets, forcing dispossession only in highly concentrated markets. As a result, approximately seventy grandfathered newspaper/broadcast…

interactions between people. Before the radio mass culture was essentially non-existent, the culture was defined to local communities through the daily interactions of people ("Mass Culture - Oxford Reference"). When radio was popularized it became the common source of media that brought communities of the United States of America together by providing it with a common culture. This paper will focus on the birth of radio in the 1920s, elucidating how advances in radio brought about a newer…

The radio was created through the invention of radio waves which are electromagnetic waves that have been created to transmit different forms of media across the air. Radio waves were first created in the 1800’s which lead to the radio telegraph which was used in the last 1800’s and early 1900’s primarily for military communication. The first speech over radio waves was transmitted in 1915 across the United States. The first FM radio was created in 1933 which helped improve the technology and…

Tuning Into the Radio The radio is an electronic device that has entertained millions of people since the first official broadcast in the 1920’s. The radio has affected many people in positive ways since then. It has had nine decades to advance into what we know as the radio today. People have enjoyed listening to artist, musicians, comedians, and sports entertainment for decades. The use of the radio has evolved from the 1920’s to modern day through communication, design and Technology.…