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HISTORY OF RADIO

HISTORY OF RADIO. Adam Lundquist. What we will go over today. What is radio? Decade by decade look at radio Each decade will have one show or person who exemplifies it. What is radio. Transmission of signals by modulating electrical waves. From Latin word to radiate (from a singular place)

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HISTORY OF RADIO

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  1. HISTORY OF RADIO Adam Lundquist

  2. What we will go over today • What is radio? • Decade by decade look at radio • Each decade will have one show or person who exemplifies it

  3. What is radio • Transmission of signals by modulating electrical waves. • From Latin word to radiate (from a singular place) • A lot of science you are not going to need to know unless you are an engineer • There is also satellite radio

  4. Waves

  5. Broadcasting • American Heritage Dictionary defines as • “To transmit (a radio or television program) for public or general use.” • From the farming term meaning to To place seeds over a wide area of land

  6. Broadcasting

  7. History of radio • Gugliemo Marconi was first to be given a patent. Considered father of modern radio • British Marconi

  8. Gugliemlmo Marconi • 1874-1937 • Assembled and created and basically made radio possible • 1897 obtained a patent and established the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company • Opened up the first radio factory in Chelmsford England • Started with wireless morse code

  9. Radio begins1909-1919 • San Jose Calling, Charles Herrold (1875-1948) • Radio pioneer • Stanford • Founded college • First regularly scheduled broadcasts

  10. 1920’s

  11. Commercial radio started on a bet!

  12. The beginning of the Golden Age1920-1929 • KDKA Pittsburg first US licensed commercial station in Oct. of 1920 • First Broadcast Nov. 2 1920 • By 1922 600 commercial radio stations • Loads of overlapping • 1923 WEAF-First station to have a radio advertisement. Out of New York

  13. KDKA • Frank Conrad had a 5.00 bet on a 12.00 watch • Loved new hobby • Boss saw advertisement • Boss had idea for money • First advertiser

  14. Profile • Amos and Andy Freeman Gosden 1899-1982 Charles Correll 1890-1972

  15. 1930’s

  16. 1930-1939 • Big stars were Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and George Burns • Sponsored musical was most popular form of broadcast • Broadcasting comic strip characters like Dick Tracy and Little orphan Annie

  17. 1930’s radio • The actual radios themselves were Huge

  18. Profile • Orson Welles and the “War of the Worlds” fiasco • Oct. 30, 1938 • Grovers Mill New Jersey • Mercury Theater • 23 years old

  19. 1940’s

  20. 1940-1949 • War • Radio broadcasts were used to instantly broadcast war reports because film could not do this • Broadcast FDR’s addresses to explain what was going on in the world • Provided certainty

  21. Profile • Edward R. Murrow • Gained fame when Hitler invaded Europe in March of 1938 • Broadcast live from different locations and this was considered revolutionary

  22. 1950’s

  23. 1950-1959 • Radio learns that listeners no longer want shows in the new automobile way of life. • What they do is began to be cutting edge and introduce audiences to rock n’ roll

  24. Alan Freed • Pretty much introduced rock to white people • Cleveland to New York • GIANT Payola scandal

  25. 1960’s

  26. 1960’s radio • Radio got rid of its vacuum tubes and became mobile! • Radios became ubiquitous at baseball games as well as on the beaches • People no longer had to sit around listening to radio via rooms or cars

  27. Profile: Wolfman Jack • Popular in the 1960’s and 1970’s • Was in the movie American Graffiti • Produced many of his broadcasts from Mexico where the FCC had no claim

  28. 1970’s

  29. 1970’s radio • FM became huge and DJ’s began to pick what they played. • A common format emerged where the DJ would speak between songs and there banter with the audience was very important • Top 40

  30. Casey Kasem • Casey Kasem hosted American top 40 from 1970-1988 • Was an extremely popular radio show at the time

  31. 1980’s

  32. 1980’s radio • The rise of the shock jock -Howard Stern, Don Imus, and Rush Limbaugh • Clear channel begins to buy up the country • Top 40 still huge • Rap station began emerging

  33. Profile: Howard Stern • The King of All media • One of the most important radio personalities ever • Took radio out of the professional deep voiced serious radio • Fined more than any broadcaster by the FCC

  34. 1990’s

  35. 1990’s radio • Continued rise of Shock Jocks • Conservative radio had a field day with president Clinton and his sexual appetite • Rise of extremely partisan radio

  36. Profile: Opie and Anthony • Two radio personalities originally from New York • Banned from Boston for an April Fools Prank where they said the mayor was dead • Banned (for a little while) for sex in a church but hired back to XM and eventually CBS

  37. 2000’s

  38. Radio until 2009 • Big challengers include XM, Sirius and the Ipod • Sales are gloomy • Clear channel has begun selling off stations • Xm and Sirius not doing so well • Lots of oppurtunity

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