1950's Radio History

By the commencement of the decade of the 1920s, Americans regarded the radio as one of the humanity’s greatest inventions and initiated a culture based on this new technology. The radio programs and advertisements created a platform upon which the American masses unified, educated and entertained their families, embraced modernization, and plunged into a cultural norm of consumerism. Such was the impact of broadcast programs and advertisements. Although early broadcasting implemented new technologies, the communicated ideas were far from fresh. In other words, the evolution of communication channels merely found different ways through which existing ideologies and traditions could reach the people. Radio comedies are a perfect case in point.

Radio changed the lives of many people. He constantly puts others’ needs in front of his own, and shows us what love really is all about. He does ever whatever he can to help coach the sports teams at T.L. Hanna, even though he is limited by his handicap. He also makes sure never to stop someone from running in the hallway without giving them a hug or a high five as well. He is constantly cheerful, and his smile can make anyone happy. He has had such an amazing impact on

The radio in the 1920s was a very big part of lives of Americans. The radio had become sort of like a ´norm´, where almost everyone had one. According to American Radioworks, more than 40% of American household owned radios, and then later in doubled to 80% a decade later. Americans soon depended on the radio for everything. The radio typically coated Americans $150 according to 1913-1928: WW1 & Prohibition.To finding out what's going on in the US and to just passing free time. Surveys found that listeners in the 1930s spent an average of more than four hours a day listening to radio broadcasts(American Radioworks). This means the radio shaped society on how they spent their time and money, and how the radio took over their lives.

The radio is one of the most influential pieces of technology ever invented. From political debates to Taylor Swift’s latest hit, with the help of the radio, society stays informed on a plethora of topics. Freddie Mercury wasn’t lying when he said, “and everything I had to know, I learned it on my radio.” In almost every country in the world, there is at least one radio station used to broadcast news to it’s people. Since the creation of the FM radio, it has been used to reach out to people over a certain area and keep them informed about the society they live in. During the 1930s and the 1940s, the radio played a very important role in history; it was a tool used during World War II by America, Great Britain, and Nazi Germany. By sending

At the beginning of television news an arrangement existed between television journalists and the public. It was look at as that in modern times promotion journalism was normal. The United States was the modern, broadminded leader of the free world. When Walter Cronkite reported on the daily count of deaths of American soldiers in Vietnam, in lead to the antiwar disapprovals of the 1960s. One man changed how the United States look at the war with his power and influence to change people opinions. (Mann)

Cathy Hughes was born on April 22, 1947, in Omaha, NE. Cathy is known by her radio listeners as “one of the most successful media moguls in the business.” With over 65 radio stations in many urban markets throughout the country Cathy states in one of her many interviews that the radio station was a financial disaster for seven years, before she turned it around, which took hard work, and plenty of patience. Cathy Hughes even found herself moving into the radio station sleeping in a sleeping bag determined not to lose her business. Cathy did whatever it took to raise her son, and make sure he received a correct education, all while staying focused one her radio station, Radio One, after a time her radio station Radio One began turning a profit.

Murrow continues his speech to elaborate on the power of broadcast journalism. Murrow explains that the television is a platform to educate and inform the public. It is a place for debating and questioning the status quo. Yet, it is being used for entertainment and mundaneness.

As I sat in my apartment and waited for my guest I opened up my laptop to skim my notes. Edward R. Murrow, radio broadcast legend and American hero. This man survived London during World War II and now he’s coming over to my house for an interview. So many thoughts circled my head while I waited. What questions will I ask? How will he answer? Will I be able to use this interview at all? I kept frantically flipping through my notes when I heard a knock at the door.

Bob Edwards’ Edward Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism is a short biography about the man that established and revolutionized broadcast journalism. Bob Edwards has ample experience in broadcast journalism as a radio news and talk show host for over 30 years (Biography.com). It is no surprise that Edwards takes a particular interest in writing about Edward Murrow since he certainly influenced Edwards’ career in radio news. While he conducted most of his research through secondary sources, he relied heavily on books by close co-workers of Murrow. With that said, Edward Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism is a great streamlined tale of Murrow’s journey from a logger, to an education advocate, to broadcast journalism.

The main character of the film is Edward R. Murrow, the elegant and severe face of CBS News See it Now. Costumed in sharp suits and stylish patterned ties with glossy slicked back hair, the noir filter exhibits him as an imposing ostentatious figure, flamboyantly smoking a cigarette between his fixed positioned fingers. His voice is a perfect imitation of the real Murrow’s hardened scowl with dry drone-like delivery, expelling gravitas, courage and confidence as he devotes himself to report the truth in the face of McCarthy’s corruption. This nostalgic view of Murrow steals the attention of viewers from his era, especially when reciting his famous monologues on air revealing McCarthy for what he is doing. McCarthy however, is only displayed through existing historic footage of him. This is accompanied by his gravelly and rather grating, monotonous voice, of which becomes repetitive and intrusive as the news team periodically look through footage of his speeches to use against him. This contrast of characterisation between Murrow and McCarthy clearly shows that they are respectively good and evil counterparts of one another.

First Edward Murrow started his career with CBS and was with them for 14 years (Biography.com, 2017). As a matter of fact, Edward Murrow career started when he lives “London, England” for two years (Biography.com, 2017, 2). In an event that happen Edward Murrow “risked his life” to report a bombing in London (Biography.com Editors, 2017, 2). As a result, Edward Murrow work from shelter covering this story so the audience would be on their toes wanting to know what happen next (Biography.com Editors, 2017). Although, Edward Murrow was a tremendous newscaster he was not known until 1951 where he star in “See it Now” (Biography.com Editors, 2017, 3). In fact, Edward Murrow did not believe in communist like Senator McCarthy (Biography.com Editors, 2017). In reality Murrow told a story about a “soldier who was removed from the military for being a security risk” (Biography.com, 2017, 3). Owing to, this Murrow showed “McCarthy for the bully that he was using McCarthy’s own words” (Biography.com Editors, 2017, 3). Edward Murrow was not going to show fear he was sticking up for what he believes in. However, Edward Murrow had a soft spot in his heart interviewing a “person to a person” (Biography.com Editors, 2017, 4). Regardless Edward Murrow did whatever it took to make is audience, entertain any if that meant jeopardizing his life for his

I found that Mr. Murrow had three utmost important topics that were very endearing and focused mostly on them with total honesty, and those were in relation to Senators, Communism and Nazis. Edward Murrow followed up on those things listed throughout his entire career in journalism and media

During World War II, a variety of US radio companies were effective in arranging special services, such as creating different radio shows and sending information. The radio was able to give everyone an update about the war, allowing people to be prepared if anything was to happen. It was the greatest type of medium at the time to provide amusement, and to broadcast propaganda.

Like many Americans television has become a way of life, from news media, sporting spectacles and even a source of live music at home. The 50’s had a booming stage of live broadcasting to television that was now available for home viewers. This cultivating production to single family homes was a monumental achievement in mass communication to local families in the states. The platform or audience base for political leaders and up a coming powerful figures in history, had a way to reach views who might have never know about them. Taken from author Anna McCarthy words on “the existence of TV’s mass audience provided the powerful people with opportunities to talk about and given form to the amorphous collectivity of the nation”. In other words broad casting was the number one audience for powerful people who wanted to be heard and seen. Mean the voice of the people was very creditable when broadcasting an average

The coincidence of the growth of television with the first military defeat for America was used by the government to explain why the war was lost: it wasn’t because of government policy or by underestimating the enemy but because television journalism and lack of censorship that undermined the whole operation “by ‘graphic and unremitting distortion’ of the facts, pessimism, and unvarnished depiction of both Americas youthful casualties and American ‘atrocities’ inflicted on the Vietnamese.” The amount of televisions in America was on the increase; ‘In 1950, only 9 percent of homes owned a television. By 1966, this figure rose to 93 percent.’ This alone shows the sheer coverage that the news had and the potential influence that it could impose upon the minds of the people. Not only did more people have television sets in their homes but more and more people were relying on television over any other medium to obtain their news. The survey conducted by the Roper organisation for the Television Information Office in 1972 shows us that 64% of people got most of their news from television, an 8% increase from the survey conducted in 1964. Another factor in the power of television was not just the fact that it reached a wide audience, it was also the fact that people were more likely to believe what the television news said over reports in the newspaper or radio, especially if the reports were conflicting in nature. This was due to two factors; the personality who