JOUR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: United Fruit Company, David Sarnoff, Analog Recording
28 Nov 2016
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Taylor swift pulling entire song catalogue from spotify. 1877 thomas edison invents the phonography, records sound on foil cylinders. 1888 emile berliner develops gramophone, plyas music on mass produced disc. 1953 hi fi is combination of technologies to create better music reproduction. Written in 1915 american marconi engineer david sarnoff. Suggested major uses for radio as mass communication tool, including news, music and sports. More receivers than transmitters-more people listening instead of producing content. Rca monopoly-following wwi, radio corporation of america created to bring together patentents, develop radio as a medium. Radio corporation of america- made up of general electri, at&t, westinghouse and united fruit. Company (fruit company had a piece of needed technology) 1920: kdka in pittsburgh first radio station launched as first commercially licensed radio stations. Drama- little orphan annie, the lone ranger, the shadow. Soap opera- guiding light started on radio in 1937 and moved to television in 1952 and on the air until.
