Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The Radio Back in the Day 6

A great invention came in the early 1910's called radio. Radio is a media device in which you can listen to other people talk. This came way before television and was better also. In some ways you say its better than radio. You don't have to be one area to know what's going on (or listen). If you have a TV you have to be near the TV to know what's going on in it. Radio is also very good for you brain. It helps you with your acoustics with the recognition of different  voices on it.  Radio became popular because it was relatively cheap and everyone could listen at once no matter where you were in the house (if and only if the sound is loud enough). People all around the country started listening to radio programs being on late at night. Night time radio programs became very popular at this time like the Atwater Kent Hour or the Capital Hour. Most of these shows were either comedy shows or music shows. Radio programs like the  Lots of  journalism programs came after this like NBC, CBS or ABC started at this time. These journalism programs eventually grew into broadcasting companies which they are now.  From journalism companies to popularity Radio became a very popular form of entertainment in America and possibly all around the world.

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