RTF 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ceelo Green, Transatlantic Telegraph Cable, David Sarnoff
8 May 2016
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Why and how we study history of media: focus on the history of different media. The patterns of key turning points tend to repeat. Regulatory intervention: history helps us anticipate future changes. Tech disruptive, somewhat unpredictable, enables new kinds of media. But patterns of industry application also repeat. Telstar, first communication satellite enabled telephones and satellite tv to reach further, also eventually enabled unforeseen internet. Genres often repeat across technologies, new media. Ex: cee lo green video, text on screen. Radio, part 1: historical overview of broadcasting in the us. Speed of communication=speed of travel and distance of senses. Example: town crier, pony express, smoke signals, semaphore: the telegraph. Speed/distance of communication=instant/infinite: consequences of electrical communication. On the grid: prehistory of radio. Develops wireless telegraph to use for transatlantic shipping/business communication. In 1901, marconi"s company made the first transatlantic radio. Period of radio amateurs and government control: 1910-1922. Amateur radio: unrestricted use of airwaves for broadcasting .
