Radio Is Becoming More Prolific

According to Covil, “Radio is the one media that has had the greatest impact on sports and the audience. There is no other form of the media that covers the different levels and varieties of athletics more than radio.” Radio has the abilities or skills that other media cannot match and the first connection is formed between the broadcasters and audience.

Jenkins talks about how the consumption of media products is a collective process, in other words, the collective intelligence is seen as an alternative source of media power. He describes how within popular culture, the collective meaning making is shaping and changing the ways religion, education, laws, politics, advertising and how the military operate (4). Jenkins discusses a process called “convergence of modes”, he explains that media and communication are becoming interconnected like the telephone and television.

Generally speaking, by analyzing Porter’s five forces of radio station industry in New Zealand, we could get the conclusion that four of those five forces have negative influences on the industry, namely the intensity of rivalry, the threat of substitutes, the bargaining power of buyers, and the bargaining power of suppliers. Only the threat of new entrants has positive influence. Fortunately, ICTs are broadly used in converting the negatives to positives among the radio station industry. And it actually does very well. The below facts are the analysis of Porter’s five forces and ICTs being implicated in radio station industry.

First I would like to identify who the film includes on its radio broadcasts. There are essentially two types of people featured on the broadcast: the radio talk show host and his co-commentator and his callers. The first use of radio in the film is that of a radio talk show, hosted by “Slam and Sammy,” that focuses primarily on the Permian Panthers’ football team. Also featured on the show are callers that are most likely from the local community surrounding the support of the Panthers. It is not made clear until halfway through the film at the start of a football game that Slam and Sammy are also the commentators for the football games and that the games are broadcast, most likely on the same radio station. We are made aware of this fact around fifty minutes into the film when we hear, “You’re back with mojo radio. It is Slam and Sammy.” In trying to detect the difference between the announcers, the voice we hear the most seems to be the main host, while the other voice (it is slightly unclear who is Slam and who is Sammy) seems to be more of a color commentator that allows the lead announcer to do most of the talking.

For my interview, I was fortunate enough to get ahold of a man who works for a major local news station known as RDI or Radio Canada. His name, Pascal Robidas, a thirty six year old television news reporter. I met him through my uncle who lives in the same triplex as him. Throughout our fascinating forty five minute long interview, I learnt so much more about his life and job than by reading a book on the subject.

In an article entitled “NPR Chief Faces Need for Repairs” by Elizabeth Jensen we are introduced to the views of the president/chief executive of NPR Gary E. Knell. Knell is described as “He always has a vision of what he thinks the company should be. And he has a dynamic personality, very dynamic. He’s a super salesman. He represented a radio broadcaster looks to expand in the digital arena...” (Jensen 4). These are the qualities that are needed for NPR to be successful in these changing times. NPR needs to expand into the digital arena. It gets a substantial chunk of its money from dues from member stations. This creates a problem that makes it slightly difficult for them to transition to the digital arena, because the more they

“The whole problem with news on television comes down to this all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on one page of a newspaper”. The average news cast is only twenty-two minutes long,and that's not nearly enough time to cover the days events.In Neil Postman’s essay “The News” Postman talks about the structure,content,and goals and results of a television news cast. The news can be compared to the theatres in terms of its structure. According to Postman, “Music takes us immediately into the realm of the symbolic, a world that is not to be taken literally.”

According to many individuals the worst part of listening to the radio are all the commercials. They feel as though commercials are just fillers and serve no real purpose. On power 106FM there is a subtle balance between commercials and music. While listening to this radio station for a full hour there were only 24 commercials. You may be thinking to yourself well I don’t want any commercials at all. Well out

Society is always rapidly changing, and there are people who can easily accept this change and others who still long for the original or traditional way. Each individual part of society shifts including: pop culture, television, art, and radio; which ultimately makes society different as a whole. In each part of society there tends to be one person who can be pointed out for starting the revolution of the change in that section of society. This person tends to gain a great deal of attention both negatively and positively, due to people rejecting and accepting this transformation. Through his controversial and blunt remarks, Howard Stern was able to change traditional radio and articulate satire within his station and book, which attracted a large amount of people and media.

“I loved radio right from the beginning. I read Quentin Reynolds’ biography and thought, ‘That’s what I want to do. I want to tell stories.’”

Although online video and music streaming services lured viewers and listeners astray, there has been a resurgence of radio and audio media. This occurrence can be credited to a variety of factors. First, radio and podcasts can be cheaper and easier productions than film or

Can you imagine a world without radios? Radios have improved over the years. For example,

Also, as mentioned previously, the competition such as radio companies have also embraced newer technology. The audio entertainment marketplace is evolving rapidly and new media platforms and portable devices emerged periodically, it was likely that new companies would enter the marketplace and begin to compete with Sirius XM’s programming and services.

First,a radio based philosophy show has a website called philosophy talk. Philosophy talk pertains more information about the events and shows that they have. It is a website that is a “show” or podcast audio with different episodes on relationships, the world, passions and their beliefs. The beliefs include ethics, justice, religion and morality. There are two host that speak every week to bring out the thought stimulation of people who listen to the station. The events shown are the host or team visiting different universities to speak. Also it provides the different radio stations that they are available on in different states and the podcast are available to purchase.As well as being able to

According to Jenkins ‘Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide’, It spectacles that the entertainment industry has taken the advantage of harnessing ‘New Media’ on traditional formats by focussing on the logistics and practices. This evidently helps to increase the popularity and the availability of audience participation through the use of updated technology. This is denoted through old technological formats via applying new interactive media to heighten the participation for numerous audiences. For instance, back in the day many industries i.e. entertainment had to depend on broadcasting and radio for the viewers to receive their audio or visual content. To do these industries had to send out signals globally through a large transmitter so that people can receive their content. Transmitting these signals