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1. The media I use the most is television, while print is my least used form of media. This is what I had expected, since I rarely feel the desire to sit down and just read during the school year, I’d rather watch several television episodes. Relaxing on my bed or couch watching TV or Netflix sounds like a more enjoyable evening, instead of sitting at my desk reading boring textbooks for physics. Plus, I traveled home this weekend and all of my recorded shows were ready to be watched, since…

Once early radio legislation, such as the Radio Act of 1912, determined that radio would be a commercial system, the primary question facing the industry was: how will radio be funded? This was resolved by the introduction of advertising to the airwaves, which set a number of precedents upon which modern media, principally, television and the internet, receive funding create their programming. As expressed by Michele Hilmes in her work Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the…

Most of the people in the United States are inform by too many sources. One can get inform by the television, listening to the radio, and by reading the news press. The United States public needs to be more responsive of the news because too much enlightening news can cover up other important news. Therefore, websites, popular entertainment, and the media play a role in our society. First of all, kidnapping in the United States remains one of the most common crimes in the country. About 2,300…

Rogers Description Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) is a diversified public Canadian telecommunication and media company (#1). The company operates in three principal segments: Rogers Wireless, Rogers Cable and Rogers Media (#2). The Wireless segment remains as Canada’s largest voice and data telecommunications services provider and only national carrier operating on combined world stand GSM/HSPA+/LTE technology platforms (1). Its network provides customers with advanced high-speed wireless…

How Cool Were Your Grandparents? Back in the 50’s was quiet different to now a days, here are some facts just to kick start the brain.  The average house in 1950 sold for $14,000  The average annual income in the ‘50s was just under $3,000  Kitchen debuts – Tupperware at home party sales, electric frying pans, nonstick cookware  In 1950 fewer than 1 in 10 American homes owned a TV set. By the end of the decade, 9 out of 10 American homes were tuned in  Gunsmoke first aired on television in…

When people envision what television is today it is quite simple: a large screen with HD quality and hundreds of channels which are easy to access. Unbelievably there was a time where television was not like that, where quality was not all that mattered, where viewers only had a certain amount of channels to access. Welcome to Maria Paulercio’s television era, the 1950s. Television has transformed dramatically since the 1950’s from the look to what was produced and put on the air. It had an…

Andrew Parker had finally received his dream job as a sports journalist. Ever since he was a kid, he dreamed of being able to travel the world and being the first to report stories on America’s favorite athletes. Ever since he was a child, Andrew loved sports, and his mother always said that if he was not going to be in the game, he definitely was going to be reporting on it. After he graduated college, Andrew flew out to Los Angeles for a job offer working in an office, primarily getting coffee…

How Did The Mechanical TV Work The 1920’s were rocked when both John Logie Baird and Charles Francis Jenkins created the early model of todays TV. Baird’s television, as previously mentioned, used a rotating disk with spiralled holes. This disk had 30 holes and rotated 12.5 times in a single second. The theory behind this invention was that you could view an image on the other side of the disk, the downfall was you needed a magnifying glass to do so. His mechanical television depended on the…

“On military radios, there’s a frequency way near the top of the band that’s left unassigned at all times. It was regularly used, however, as an open conference line among enlisted men, and anybody with a spare radio and a little time to kill…” (Bradley and Werner 65). Many of us can say music is one of the greatest ways to way to block everything out. In the sixties and seventies many people in the states were going to these amazing historical rock and roll concerts, meanwhile troops were out…

perfect sphere that it could be without it. Television has made America dependent on it by having round-the-clock news, creating a new way to view politics, and a false sense of reality. Before television, our news was based off of newspapers and the radio. Now with the click of a couple of buttons, America is granted access to round-the-clock news that is not always as accurate as it might…