It blows the iPod off the map in music discovery and downloading.
Novelty Stage
1. Samuel morse
Telegraph (wires) Morse Code
Video of telegraph
Novelty Stage
what about wireless? How do you transmit a signal through the AIR?
Novelty Stage
2. James Maxwell
His equations theorized that electricity, magnetism and even light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon: the electromagnetic field.
Novelty Stage
3. Heinrich Hertz
Proved Maxwells theories Identified Electromagnetic waves
Novelty Stage
Hertz (Hz) can be used to measure any periodic event; the most common use for hertz is to describe frequency of rotation, in which case a speed of 1 Hz is equal to one cycle per second.
4. THREE GUYS
Novelty Stage
WHO INVENTED THE DEVICE TO TRANSMIT A SIGNAL THROUGH THE AIR (1894)
Novelty Stage
MARCONI
Tesla
POPOV
Novelty Stage
POPOV
(Dramatization)
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH
Novelty Stage
5. Reginald Fessenden
Wireless telephony: transmitted voice and sound
Novelty Stage
6. Lee
De Forest
Wireless telephony:
amplified sound (monkey face)
Novelty Stage
Entrepreneurial Stage
Entrepreneurial Stage
Ship-to-shore communication
Entrepreneurial Stage
David Sarnoff and the Titanic
Entrepreneurial Stage
Wireless became a huge hobby
Entrepreneurial Stage
"I remember it was 10 or 11 o'clock at night and all at once, this voice appears. And I remember letting out a yelp or a shout of some sort and my dad, who had just gotten out of the bath, came in wrapped in a towel to make sure... that something hadn't happened to me. I said, 'Dad, look, I hear this fellow talking.'"
WWI
Education
2 KEY NETWORKS
1. AT&T creates network of stations, linking
NETWORKS
2. RCA creates a network as subsidiary, linked with (INFERIOR) Western Union lines
= Radio Group (w/ GE and Westinghouse)
NETWORKS
BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF AMERICA (AT&T/BCA) superior VS. RADIO GROUP (RCA) inferior
Government cracks down on AT&T FOR MONOPOLIZING RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, forces it to sell network (DATE) RCA organizes two networks as
Radio Rules
Radio Act of 1912: required a license
Radio Act of 1927: Establishes FRC and standard of operating in the public interest, convenience, or necessity (PICON) Communications Act of 1934:
Establishes FCC, keeps PICON standard. Congress endorses commercial radio.
(video)
Clear Channels
WSM 650 (Nashville) WFAN660 (New York) WMAQ 670 (Chicago) WLW 700 (Cincinnati) WOR 710 (New York) WGN 720 (Chicago) WSB 750 (Atlanta) WJR 760 (Detroit) WABC 770 (New York) WBBM 780 (Chicago) WBAP 820 (Fort Worth)
Clear Channels
WCCO 830 (Minneapolis) WHAS 840 (Louisville) WWL 870 (New Orleans) WCBS 880 (New York) WLS 890 (Chicago) WBZ1030 (Boston) WHO 1040 (Des Moines) WWWE 1100 (Cleveland) WHAM 1180 (Rochester) WOAI 1200 (San Antonio) WGMP 1210 (Philadelphia) KIRO 710 (Seattle)
Clear Channels
KFI 640 (Los Angeles) KDKA 1020 (Pittsburgh) KMOX 1120 (St. Louis) KSL 1160 (Salt Lake City)
Radio Culture
Radio OWNERSHIP
FCC OWNERSHIP CONSTRAINTS
1950-80: 7 AM, 7 FM, 7 TV Stations Late 1980s: 20 AM, 20 FM, 12 TV Stations 1996 Telecommunication Act: You cant reach 35% of national audience 2003: You cant reach 45%
FCC used to enforce BROADCAST DIVERSITY (NOT ANYMORE)
Radio ownership
Clear Channel owns:
Over 1,190 stations Premiere Radio network (syndicates programs to 6,500 other stations 240 international stations 40 TV stations Largest Billboard/outdoor sign business Largest live event promoter SFX (talent and sports star agency) Broadway, Cable, network, films
Radio ownership
Empire of the air/video (7:40)
Radio Culture
Pirate Radio/Low Power FM National Public Radio
PBS: 1968 NPR: 1970
BBC Satellite Radio: XM and Sirius (merge is on the cusp of approval) Zune, etc.
Radio Culture
Internet radio services PANDORA Last.fm Launchcast (yahoo) Rhapsody (Realnetwork) Guideposts Pitchfork Emusic
If Pandora and other customizable services take off (and so far thats a big if), they could shift the balance of power not just in how music is consumed, but in how it is made. You now have music fans that are completely enabled as editorial voices, said Michael Nash, senior vice president for digital strategy and business development at Warner Music Group, one of the four major music conglomerates. You cant fool those people. You cant put out an album with one good single on it. Those days are over.
But if fans become their own gatekeepers, the emerging question is what sort they will be. Will they use services like Pandora to refine their choices so narrowly that they close themselves off to new surprises? Or will they use the services to seek out mass shared experiences in an increasingly atomized music world?