James Clerk Maxwell, a mathematical physics scientist who showed that electromagnetic waves could be sent through free space. In the early 20th century radio systems transmitted messages using only continuous wave code.
Commercial radio broadcasting began in the 1920's and became important for entertainment and news.
Radio Documentary.
Marconi invented the wireless telegraph.
War is the reason radios are commonly used.
Sound travels in waves like light.
1887, A german scientist created an oscillator.
1890's the wireless transmissions were used by ships with morse code and S.O.S. was created.
A carbon microphone was used to add voice and sounds to radio waves instead of just dots.
Radio became a media business.
Radio helped save quiet a few passengers from the titanic and also used as news to tell people who survived and died.
Radio started being used for sports scores, music and talking about war.
Radios were mass-produced so people could survive the war.
First modern radio was made near the end of WWI.
Radio station first went on air for a presidential election.
Sports, music and religion were broadcasted.
1922 was when the first advert was on radio.
Radio reported a plane flying over the ocean and important football game.
1930's radio replaced theatre as the most popular entertainment media.
Creating radio scripts became a job and famous people started appearing on radio shows.
Radio shows used foley artists to make sound effects for the show and voice actors for characters.
In 1938 a radio show about aliens tricked people into thinking the earth was actually being invaded.
Radio also reported on disasters.
President Franklin Roosevelt liked using radio to communicate with the country.
World War II created propaganda on radios to help fight the war.
AM and FM became the most used radio companies.
Sherlock Holmes was made as a radio show.
Television was invented and replaced radio as the most popular entertainment and news.
Car radios became more popular because TV took over but radio became more about music.
In 1954 portable radios were created so they could carry them around and listen to them on the move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jth70_zH-Ps
Here is a link to a documentary about the history of radio.
https://transition.fcc.gov/omd/history/radio/documents/short_history.pdf
Here is a PDF file about the history of radio.
Radio Stations.
Capital FM and KISS are two radio stations, they both only play popular new music and then when the music is no longer new and popular they replace it with the newer more popular music.
They also both have different hosts. The people who play the music and talk about the music before and after the music plays. They also do other things though like competitions and having special guests on the show for things like interviews or just for fun.
They also host events or you can win prizes such as music concert tickets.
Here are the links to the radio stations websites.
Sometimes they will play older music to break up the repetition of the current music. During Christmas they play Christmas music.
http://www.capitalfm.com/
http://www.kissfmuk.com/
BBC Radio 4.
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station that only has speaking with no music being played. Here is the link to there website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4
When i listened to Radio 4 the current thing playing was All in a Chord, Where someone named Ivan Hewett was examining chords from Rite of Spring a radio show about analysing music.
BBC Radio 4 talks about news and events that are happening or have happened, They make radio shows for people to listen too which is like TV but without the visuals. They also talk about different topics or people and have guests come in to talk about things as well.
There radio shows can be any genre and they could talk about anything from a TV show to a country or even sounds. Radio 4 is the second most popular radio station and it started in 1967.
Radio 4 has the longest running radio drama, a show called The Archers which is a show about normal people set in a fictional english county.
Newsbeat.
Here is a link to Newsbeat clips.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkry/clips
https://audioboom.com/posts/536001-radio-wales-food-waste-package
Newsbeat is a news segment on radio 1 that tells you current events that have happened, It only lasts a few minutes.
One of the audio recordings they had was a poem called I Give Up it was by a 14 year old teenage girl named Izzy Dix who made a poem about being bullied before she died. The Newsbeat clip was only the audio recording and there was no interviews or reactions from other people because it was just a recording that was sent in. This recording makes you feel empathy and sadness for someone who was bullied for no good reason. For my audio project i would get interviews and opinions from other people about the topic.
The other audio was a presenter playing a new Call Of Duty game that is coming out soon with a few famous people there to play against him or on his team. He talks about the game and the few differences it has to previous entries in the series. The presenter interviewed different people about the game. One person liked the series for being fast and action packed and another revealed he learned the english language from playing the game online with others. The gameplay and interviews will make COD fans want to play the new game as soon as possible and make people who don't like the series won't care.
Radio Wales - Food Waste.
The audio clip was about food waste. They talked about how much food is wasted and how they could stop it and they talked about the charity trying to prevent this which was called This Is Rubbish. The radio clip is set in Wales. It starts with a news anchor talking about the situation before it switches to an interviewer interviewing different people down the food line, First they interview a farmer working with animals like cows for milk and then they switch to a shop keeper talking about packaging waste and finally a member of the charity but his interview is cut off half-way through. This audio clip made me worry about food waste.
Radio Presenters.
I found out about presenters on Capital FM. The first was a duo called only by there first names Dino and Pete they do weekday mornings from 6 to 10am. They usually do the usual music while talking about the usual morning stuff that happens but also mention the news and weather. They also do something called Throwback Hour where they play old songs for an entire hour.
The next Capital FM presenter i found out about was Marvin Humes. He does Monday to Thursday from 10pm to 10am where he does plays mostly dance music. He also does the top 40 chart and on Friday from 7pm to 10pm.
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