Not really a Christmas story, and not exactly part15 related either, but an interesting radio related story nonetheless:
Not really a Christmas story, and not exactly part15 related either, but an interesting radio related story nonetheless:
Back in the 1930’s a kind of war erupted between radio stations and newspapers.
So in December of 1933 in an effort to try to make peace “…William S. Paley of CBS and David Sarnoff of RCA met at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City with representatives from all the three wire services, ANPA (American Newspaper Publishers Association) and NAB (the National Association of Broadcasters)…
At this meeting they compiled a list of specific rules (described in the link below) for the radio networks and the newspapers in an attempt to keep them from stepping on each others toes and make peace..
Agreements were made and the meeting was concluded, and the radio stations and newspapers went along their merry way..
But it didn’t work, and nasty competitive feuding continued.
In the end the newspapers found an easy solution.. They bought the radio stations!
Problem solved.
I thought this story was a hoot!
Read the more detailed account at the Arcane Tadio Trivia website: http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2011/12/biltmore-agreement.html
Being Tried Again
Recently the Media Minutes News Program disclosed that many large market TV news bureaus are now producing news for other stations in the market so that the stations can fire whole bunches of their news staff.
Newspapers are already down to just enough paper to actually exist, with little clues and hints about a few news rumors that are either wrong or incomplete.
If we were better organized we could have better news than large stations simply because they are trying not to have real news, and I can tell you that thinning the news so it doesn’t give much information does not require a college education.
Example of an audience building news story:
“According to witnesses who quickly departed the scene, some very significant uproar took place around that corner, only minutes ago. Our KDX Truck arrived only seconds after it all went down. And now, back to the station”
Recently the Media Minutes
Recently the Media Minutes News Program disclosed that many large market TV news bureaus are now producing news for other stations in the market so that the stations can fire whole bunches of their news staff.
That reminds me an interesting presentation I recenctly watched talking about how we get our news, and as to how accurate some of it really is… parts of it revealed real world examples of how diverse stations across the nation are actually presenting identical content and giving the impression that the report is accurate information, when in reality it has no genuine factual backing..
— I’m not explaining this correctly at all..
Anyway the following is from “Broadcast in a Box” which is a part of The High School Broadcast Journalism Project (HSBJ).. It’s a pretty interesting presentation if you wan’t to watch it: http://rtdna.na4.acrobat.com/p20421528/
There’s a lot of other good stuff there to at http://www.hsbj.org
Bill over at hobbybroadcaster found this link a few days ago, and I’ve been browsing around it for a few days now.. Very cool stuff.
Great Link
That first link was so great I sat through most of it and it felt like being in a good journalism class.
The other link will be interesting too, for later tonight.
Thank you Rich Powers.
There’s a lot of cool and
There’s a lot of cool and useful stuff at the website.
Checkout the course “Broadcast in a Box”
http://hsbj.org/learning/broadcastinabox.php
It used to cost, but now is provided for free.
There’s also an extensive group of pdf “lesson plans” concerning Radio at http://www.hsbj.org/learning/plans.php – I’m just now starting to browse that area.
It seems that website has categories hidden inside of categories…. so there’s a even more stuff there than you initially see.. not sure how deep it goes.