Essay on The Role of the Radio Broadcast Assistant

In the short story by John Cheever called "The Enormous Radio" it begins with Jim and Irene Westcotts appearing like the perfect American family. Cheever describes them as "the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability" (Cheever 1). What is ironic about this story is the Westcotts are far from being the perfect family and the community they try to conform to is just as imperfect as the Westcotts themselves. A way the Westcotts try to live up to their society is by keeping secret the fact that they listen to the radio and attend musical events. This is because these activities were not something members of their community did. For example, Cheever says the "Westcotts differed

Module 9: Briefly describe basic procedures in using the radio: call-up, acknowledgement, length of broadcast, etc.

1.     Gregorian chant consists of a single-lined melody and is monophonic in texture. This piece also consists of these basic structures as well as not having any harmory or counterpoint. This piece performed by U of I faculty member Steven Rickards, is sung a cappella.

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.

The movie “Radio” is the tale of a young African-American man who suffers from severe mental retardness and his journey to fame from football in the small South Carolinian town of Anderson. James “Radio” Kennedy is befriended by the T. L. Hanna High School head football coach, Coach Jones, and begins to help as an “assistant coach” of some sort. Eventually, James begins to attend Hanna High as an eleventh grade student due to the persistent efforts of Coach Jones.

When you’re a TV announcer, you have to do a lot of things. You may have to read scripts or announce artists performing in a concert. You are required to record commercials for later broadcast or read news flashes for viewers (or just regular news for viewers). You have to control consoles and coordinate game shows. Besides all those responsibilities, there are many more jobs you have to do as a TV\ radio announcer besides announcing.

In chapter 8 of Blown to Bits, the authors explain the history and the regulation of radio and TV broadcasts. When the radio came out, the radio was being used simultaneously by many in the same geographic area and because of this, the signals could not be kept apart. For this reason, the radio act was installed where it limited broadcasting to only those who had a license. The authors stated that when HD was created, more radio stations could be opened because the frequencies could be placed closer and the broadcast would not be interfered.

The radio was used as a distancing agent from others as he listened to it alone, but at the same time it encouraged interaction as he regularly called in to radio stations to win prizes and talk with the hosts. Television brought him closer to his immediate family but pulled him away from the larger world around him, almost the exact opposite of radio. Also, did the fact that radio led to the creation of television impact in any way the amount of jingles and little tunes commercials and shows insisted on? Would there had been less if radio and television were created at more separate times? It is difficult to say. I do know that from the interview I performed it seemed that television had not taken every listener of radio away with its development, not quite like how it sounded when we went over it in class. Concerning what we learned in class I was left surprised that radio had survived at all in today’s television-focused environment. The fact that all three aspects of media, records, radio, and television, were able to coexist relatively easily was definitely interesting and a bit reassuring. There are some forms of media today, like current radio shows, that I would not like seeing disappear under television’s

“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.”

Radio was a very important transmission mode. The radio’s main function was to deliver citizens the necessary information in a way that was easy to understand, while at the same time making sure the news agencies earned sufficient ratings and to profit. The radio companies had to make the radio programming easy to understand to the average citizen, because “[t]he education of many Americans had ended after freshman year in high school. (Horten, p.

A quick introduction, I am Edison Lewark and I am your OCIO CFC coordinator this year. I am very excited to be the coordinator as it will give me chance to meet you as we all work together to help those who cannot help themselves. In echoing the Secretary’s statements about the Department being the third highest contributor the national capital area last year, I am sure the Team OCIO will not only meet but outperform last year efforts. We all know what CFC is about and we know what a noble cause it is but if may share a personal story of how I have seen it work and it can make a significant change in people’s lives. I am a former DC police officer and I have worked in the poorest parts of our great city and in working in those

   John Cheever’s "The Enormous Radio" represents the enormous amount of hidden truths in American society of the 1940s. The problems with society during this time were hidden behind a facade of goodness; however, this false innocence becomes visible through the radio owned by the Westcotts. The radio causes the Westcotts to evolve from an innocent, naive pair who believe that everything they see is real, into individuals who realize that appearances are deceiving.

    Many authors use the personification of inanimate objects to symbolize the feelings and expressions of their characters. One example of this is in John Cheever’s short story, "The Enormous Radio." Although critics argue that the characteristics of the radio are the opposite of those of Jim and Irene Westcott, the radio actually reflects the couple’s life.

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

Which ever way the electronic media which is the radio intends to pass the messages, it is important to know that it is through the media which is the radio that the targeted audience can be reached.