Journalism Response: Radio Lecture

This radio lecture taught me a lot about the history of radios and how they developed to become such an important part of our world. I learned about how radios boomed all around the world, until of course TV’s were invented. I had no idea before this lecture that television caused radio to demassify because all the radio talent moved to TV. It was interesting to learn about how radio changed after television. 

It was interesting for me to also learn about how when radio first came out it was not a mass medium. I was surprised that radio used to just be messages between individuals instead of widespread broadcasts for masses of people.

I had no idea that radio was the first live medium ever so I found that cool and useful to know. I just thought that it must’ve been cool for the people who were used to getting news later than everyone else to actually get to listen to LIVE broadcasts and news at the same time as the rest of the country. Being able to listen to live, spontaneous, breaking news at that time was such a huge breakthrough in technology and change in our lifestyle and I find that very fascinating.

Overall, I think that this may have been one of my favorite lectures because I learned so much new information and I found it incredibly interesting.