Broadcast Radio

The term I decided to choose for the modern information society is broadcast radio.  In The New York Times, I was able to find an article from July 29, 1919 about how the secretary of the Navy wanted the government to own and run a monopoly on the costal radio broadcast stations that are Transocean.  It stated that it’s important for the government to be in charge of the radio, but didn’t go into extreme detail on the reasons why.  The earliest article I was able to find in The Chicago Tribune was from March 16, 1924.  This article didn’t actually have anything to do with Chicago receiving broadcast radio, and instead it was about New York receiving a brand new 1,000-watt radio broadcasting plant, which was a great feat at the time.  To put a 1,000-watt radio station in perspective, now radio stations can have over 10,000-watt stations.  Searching through The Los Angeles Times, I was able to find an article from April 23, 1922.  The article was about how a pastor from Trinity Methodist Church was going to air on the radio about how his faith is his cure and how communicating over broadcast radio was one of the most important changes to how people reached a mass audience during this time.  After looking up articles on ProQuest, Project Muse, and JStor, the biggest change that I have found from early broadcast radio and today’s broadcast radio is caused by an external variable.  The television dramatically changed broadcast radio due to it being a visual medium of communication. Also, broadcast radio has expanded from a its old way of transmission into today’s digital radio, meaning you can use the Internet or different types of digital radio to access it instead of only receiving it through radio waves.