Radio Lecture Response

      I liked how this lecture provided radio broadcasts that helped us create images in our head. We listened to the live broadcast of the Hindenburg incident, where a giant blimp crashed and exploded. I could not imagine how terrifying it must have been for the listeners because people were still stunned with the idea of radio. Another broadcast we listened to was "World of the Worlds," where the listeners thought Martians were attacking the world. However, at the beginning of the broadcast it says that its an episode of the Mercury Theatre of the Air series. This example reminded me how gullible we can be when facing new technology. At the time of these broadcasts, it was the golden age of radio. The number of radios had increased rapidly up to 40 million radios, which is insane because not many people listen to radio anymore. The decline of the usage of radios was due to television. This makes me wonder what the next big invention will be and how will it affect our lives.
     The technology that threatened radio was television. A couple of years after the first TVs were sold, all of radio's talent were gone. Like every mass medium, radio demassified and due to this demassification, rock and roll was saved. The outputs of radio were targeted towards the youth (teenagers), whom were interested in this new music. I thought that this was very interesting because not many other mass mediums had demassifyed this way.