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The impact of radio on sound recordings

At the time of radio’s introduction, the idea of transmitting entertainment and news through the airwaves was revolutionary. New institutions and new business models were developed to take advantage of this technological breakthrough, including the idea of using advertising to support the market, which has largely continued to this day.

Radio grew into a major industry, with a profound influence on the culture and social mores. Although it was later to be eclipsed by television, it continues to this day to be one of the major forms of entertainment, with the average American listening to approximately three hours of radio per day.

Radio stations generate positive values to listeners, as evidenced by the willingness of listeners to spend several hours each day listening to radio even though they have to put up with advertising. Advertisers pay for the right to place their advertisements in radio programming, generating the revenues upon which private radio stations depend for their existence.

We have already discussed the two possible impacts that radio might have substitution and exposure. It is likely that both effects are at work at any one time. The relative strength of each, however, determines the overall impact of radio on record sales.

The prevailing view is that radio play enhances the market for prerecorded music. Much of this view can be traced to the fact that firms in the recording industry carefully cultivate their relationship with radio broadcasters to make sure that radio stations play their recordings. Often, this cultivation crosses over into what is known as “payola”, a pejorative term indicating that record companies are paying radio stations, station programmers, or disc-jockeys to pay particular recordings.

As we shall see, the recording industry underwent a devastating decline shortly after the advent of radio. Even some commentators who assign the cause of the recording industry’s decline to radio’s emergence believe that the major impact of radio on record sales changed from substitution to exposure, and that radio now enhances the sales of recordings. For example, according to the BBC website, The record industry had spent the first twenty years of the century convincing the public that they needed a source of music in the home but they didn’t foresee the possibility that it may be free. Unfortunately, The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) had by the early 1920s started mass-producing commercial radios which, while acoustically inferior, offered a far wider range of news, drama and music. The record companies retaliated by drawing up contracts for their major artists, forbidding them to work for this rival medium. This move to limit radio’s output was doomed to failure as new vacuum tube amplification rapidly improved reception and sound quality. Record sales plummeted.

In recording we should compare musical instruments to get what is best, but in industry we need more actions than just comparing.

Urban’s entertainment’s trends

Urbanites are very much into TV with 69% liking or loving watching TV and 40% of Urbanites having 3 or more TVs in their household.

Urbanites say they watch 16 hours 40 minutes of TV per week on average which is less than the average TV viewer. This comes as no surprise bearing in mind Urbanites are highly likely to spend more time out-of-home fulflling their busy working and social lives.

Nearly all Urbanites have a multi-channel TV service at home with only 5% living in a terrestrial-only household (versus an 8% UK average). Urbanites’ most common TV provider for the main TV in their household is Freeview (35%), Sky (34%) and Virgin Media (21%). available at DIRECT TV services

4 in 10 Urbanites with a TV at home have a high defnition TV set. Although only 1 in 10 of these Urbanites currently has a subscription to an HD TV service such like DIRECTTV.

6 in 10 Urbanites with a TV have a personal video recorder (PVR) at home, giving them the ability to pause live TV and fast forward through ad breaks when watching a programme on playback.

BBC1 and Channel 4 are Urbanites’ most-watched TV channels. E4 is the most-watched digital channel for both male and female Urbanites, but they differ on their next digital channel favourites.  Dave and Sky Sports 1 rank second and third most-watched digital channels amongst male Urbanites with BBC3 and ITV2 taking those places for female Urbanites. Watch them on DIRECTV.

Urbanites primarily want to be entertained by the TV but also like to be informed; comedy and flm are Urbanites’ favourite types of TV programme (80% liking/loving them) followed by documentaries and the news.

29% of Urbanites say they always/very often browse the internet whilst watching TV, which is the top other type of media consumed whilst watching TV, above reading a second and third. Urbanites are also guilty of watching TV whilst eating a meal, with 50% of Urbanites always/very often doing so.

Just under half of Urbanites (48%) have used an online TV catch-up service, like the BBC’s iPlayer. 3 in 10 Urbanites say they are likely to watch more TV online in the next 6 months.

DIV Overlay Tutorial (Part 2)

Music and radios seem to go hand in hand. Even though technology has provided us with many ways of listening to music we usually like to stick to a few types. There are new alternatives to the traditional radio. These are walkman radios, portable headphone radios, mobile phone radios, the computer’s music channel and even internet radio stations. The many different online free radio stations will provide you with a great way to listen to radio online in a variety of languages from all around the world.

The traditional radio can now found in a variety of situations. You can for instance now find your favorite radio station now playing over the internet. The many different stations that are available will let you choose to listen to online free radio stations too.

These will be entertainment providers like AOL Radio and Yahoo radio to name a few. To find other sources for free music you will of course need to do some searching. This will not take you a long time. During the course of your investigation you will find out that some of these internet radio stations have some interesting offers. These offers that you can get with these online free radio stations will be the ability to see the newest music releases.

By accessing these different online free radio channels you can hear music and other interesting programs right throughout the day. You are also able to watch music videos on the online free radio stations. This is something that you are not able to experience with your conventional radio. Read the rest of this entry »

Entropy

Radio has proved to be a boon in the arena of information and entertainment. It was very difficult to imagine in the past an instrument like this, through which a person can listen the voice of the people sitting in the remote areas. The popularity of this device can be imagined with the matter of the fact that now you can see this instrument with all the sections of people. With the advancements of technologies, a new form of radio is available to us and it is online radio which is often termed as live radio also. This form of radio is a result of the progress made in the telecommunication technologies. Moreover, you need not required to buy any separate device in order to listen online radio. It can be listened on the speakers of your home or office PC.

Several websites on the World Wide Web provide the facility of live online radio. These can be listened better if you have a fast Int Read the rest of this entry »

Tune Into Live Radio on Internet

Radio has always been a source of entertainment, a source of information and a source which keeps a person connected with his locality, country and world. Radio is one of the oldest Communication medium. It was invented before Television come into play and hence it was widely used by people across the world and its significance can never be neglected.

Since Internet was devised, Internet became very popular because of its wide range of use Read the rest of this entry »

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