In Britain‚ radio broadcasting was dominated entirely by the BBC‚ which since the early 1920s had been developing a broad spectrum of programming including different genres of music and speech‚ including documentaries‚ drama‚ comedy‚ news‚ religious broadcasts‚ children’s programmes‚ schools broadcasts and sports coverage). BBC output was a unifying force within British culture‚ and has been written about extensively elsewhere. In the 1950s‚ a small but growing cohort of Rock and pop music fans
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Great Depression. But for radio it was the Golden Age. The radio was a great diversion from the terrible economy. Not only was radio a great source of entertainment‚ but it also provided relief from the depression and connected the home front with the war. There were many different “shows” broadcasted on the radio‚ there was a vast category of genres‚ such as drama (soap operas)‚ action/adventure‚ and comedies. It wasn’t just entertainment‚ it was also educational. The radio was a great way to unite
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Radio‚ Film analysis The dramatic and uplifting movie “Radio” starring Cuba Gooding JR. and Ed Harris‚ is based on the true life story of James Robert Kennedy‚ a k a Radio; a mentally retarded young African-American who spends his days pushing a shopping cart around the streets of Anderson‚ a small South Carolina town‚ collecting junk and old radios. The movie starts with the heartbreaking scene of Radio pushing his cart around the town‚ in his own little world; people are ignoring him‚ and a
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In the mid-1960’s British teenagers had little to listen to on the radio; the UK government felt radio was such a powerful mass communication medium that it should be placed under state control (2)‚ so the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed and was the only radio allowed to be broadcast. BBC radio would air very little pop music due to so-called ‘needletime restrictions’‚ which were put in place to ease fears that if recorded music became popular then live music would disappear (1)
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Summary Radio is a film based on the life of James Robert “Radio” Kennedy and a football coach‚ Harold Jones. The film‚ released in 2003‚ was based in the 1960s in South Carolina. Radio is a man with an unspecified intellectual disability who shows and interest in the high school football team. The coach befriends Radio who begins to help out the football and the basketball team. The plot of the movie follows the development of the coach and Radio’s friendship and the town’s journey to eventually
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47 Cellular radio systems PART 1 (47.1 – 47.3.5) 47.1 Introduction Cellular radio systems are by far the most common of all public mobile telephone networks‚ the earlier (pre-cellular) networks now all being in decline. The basic principles of cellular systems were established by Bell Laboratories in 1949‚ but it was not until the early 1980s that technology allowed real commercial networks to be built and service offered to the public. Systems were developed at different times
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How to Write Radio News Scripts Introduction Learning how to write news for radio broadcasting can be a challenge because it is a format that has its own rules. First and foremost‚ radio news scripts are written for listeners‚ not readers or viewers. Follow these basic guidelines for writing a radio news script: Instructions Difficulty: Moderate Steps Step One Know that radio news writing is aimed toward the listener‚ so the writing should be clear and simple. No words that are difficult to
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The history of radio in Malaysia started in the year 1921. A.L. Birch‚ an electrical engineer from the Johor Government brought the original radio set into the country. (Radio Television Malaysia‚ 2010) Johor Wireless Association was set up and broadcasting through 300 meter waves began. (Radio Television Malaysia‚ 2010) This was then followed by the establishment of the same association in Penang and the Malayan Wireless Association in Kuala Lumpur. Studio of Broadcasting Corporation of Malaya was
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place‚ one could infer that they take place in the sixties due to the way things are described. In “The Enormous Radio”‚ the radio was large and difficult to move; “…with the assistance of her maid and the handyman Irene uncrated it and brought it into the living room.” The time period of the stories is paramount to why they are so interesting. John Cheever’s stories‚ “The Enormous Radio” and “The Season of Divorce” both break the mold of a typical nineteen-sixties family. Most people learn about
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in a sound room all day‚ talking calls from listeners and playing the music of one’s choice. Imagine interviewing your favorite musicians‚ and afterwards attending their concerts‚ including a tour backstage. The job being described is the one of a radio disc jockey. As a disc jockey‚ one communicates through music to an audience from around the surrounding areas‚ therefore must know what they are doing‚ and what the people want to hear. In this paper‚ one will see what it takes to become a disc jockey
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