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# The [[technology]] that allows for the [[transmission]] of [[sound]]. # The [[technology]] that allows for the [[transmission]] of [[sound]].
# A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as [[sound]]. # A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as [[sound]].
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 +Radio is a [[broadcasting]] [[mass medium]] which enjoyed its greates popularity from the [[1920s]] until the [[1950s]], when it was diplaced by television.
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 +Radio which had enjoyed mainstream popularity since the 1920s spawned some important musical tastemakers. In no particular order: [[Electrifying Mojo]], [[Frankie Crocker]], [[Gilles Peterson]], The [[Disco Sucks]] DJs, The [[Hot Mix 5]] and [[Alan Freed]]
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 +== Mass medium (1920s - 1950s) ==
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 +The 1920s saw the rise of broadcast radio as an entertainment medium. In the 1950s television replaces radio as the dominant mass medium in industrialized countries.
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 +Old-Time Radio (OTR) and the Golden Age of Radio are phrases used to refer to American radio programs mainly broadcast during the 1920s through the late 1950s when music radio started to supplant it.
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 +Before the expansion of television in the early 1950s, radio was the most popular home entertainment avenue throughout the United States. With the rise of the movie industry, America's appetite for mass entertainment grew. As with films, early radio shows reflected vaudeville origins with cornpone gags and ethnic humor interspersed between song numbers. As the medium matured, sophistication increased. During the 1930s radio featured genres and formats popular in other forms of American entertainment -- adventure, comedy, drama, horror, mystery, musical variety, romance, thrillers -- along with classical music concerts, dance band remotes, farm reports, news and commentary, panel discussions, quiz shows, sidewalk interviews, sports broadcasts, talent shows and weather forecasts.
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 +*[[Radio Nova]]
 +*[[Radio Centraal]]
 +*[[Resonance FM]]
 +Resonance104.4fm is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective. It started broadcasting on May 1st 2002. Its brief? To provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting. It features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London's arts scenes, with regular contributions from Billy Jenkins, Savage Pencil, John Bisset, Mike Barnes, Matthew Glammore, Peter Cusack, Caroline Kraabel, Clive Graham, Viv Corringham, Chris Cutler, David Quantick, Art Terry, Dave Mandl, Magz Hall, Harmon E. Phraisyar, Paul Hood, These Records, Dave Draper, Reg Hall, and the Kosmische Club; special guests including Faust, John Sinclair, Santiago Sierra, Throbbing Gristle, Gavin Turk, Iroqim Theatre Co., Stanley Chapman, Shirley Collins and The Magic Band; plus numerous unique broadcasts by artists on the weekday "Clear Spot".
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  1. The technology that allows for the transmission of sound.
  2. A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.

Radio is a broadcasting mass medium which enjoyed its greates popularity from the 1920s until the 1950s, when it was diplaced by television.


Radio which had enjoyed mainstream popularity since the 1920s spawned some important musical tastemakers. In no particular order: Electrifying Mojo, Frankie Crocker, Gilles Peterson, The Disco Sucks DJs, The Hot Mix 5 and Alan Freed

Mass medium (1920s - 1950s)

The 1920s saw the rise of broadcast radio as an entertainment medium. In the 1950s television replaces radio as the dominant mass medium in industrialized countries.

Old-Time Radio (OTR) and the Golden Age of Radio are phrases used to refer to American radio programs mainly broadcast during the 1920s through the late 1950s when music radio started to supplant it.

Before the expansion of television in the early 1950s, radio was the most popular home entertainment avenue throughout the United States. With the rise of the movie industry, America's appetite for mass entertainment grew. As with films, early radio shows reflected vaudeville origins with cornpone gags and ethnic humor interspersed between song numbers. As the medium matured, sophistication increased. During the 1930s radio featured genres and formats popular in other forms of American entertainment -- adventure, comedy, drama, horror, mystery, musical variety, romance, thrillers -- along with classical music concerts, dance band remotes, farm reports, news and commentary, panel discussions, quiz shows, sidewalk interviews, sports broadcasts, talent shows and weather forecasts.

Resonance104.4fm is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective. It started broadcasting on May 1st 2002. Its brief? To provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting. It features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London's arts scenes, with regular contributions from Billy Jenkins, Savage Pencil, John Bisset, Mike Barnes, Matthew Glammore, Peter Cusack, Caroline Kraabel, Clive Graham, Viv Corringham, Chris Cutler, David Quantick, Art Terry, Dave Mandl, Magz Hall, Harmon E. Phraisyar, Paul Hood, These Records, Dave Draper, Reg Hall, and the Kosmische Club; special guests including Faust, John Sinclair, Santiago Sierra, Throbbing Gristle, Gavin Turk, Iroqim Theatre Co., Stanley Chapman, Shirley Collins and The Magic Band; plus numerous unique broadcasts by artists on the weekday "Clear Spot".


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