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Transitioning from Newspapers to Radio

 Transitioning from Newspapers to Radio

Transitioning from newspaper to radio 1


Style
A newspapers is written so that it may be edited from the bottom up. As old editors liked to say, a page form is not made of rubber. It won’t stretch. What doesn’t fit is thrown away. Historians trace the inverted pyramid, which is not the traditional style of British or other foreign newspapers, to the American Civil War, when correspondents, fearing that the telegraph would break down before they could finish transmitting their dispatches, put the most important information into the first paragraph and continued the story with facts in descending order of news value.

The radio must be consumed sequentially, that is, the listener does not hear the second song without hearing the first. The eighth song waits on the first seven, which means in practice that all seven are chosen to be interesting to a significant number of listeners and are presented at a length, which maintains that interest. In addition to the inevitable centrality of thinking which affects broadcasts, unlike the newspaper reader, the listener is unable to stop to review and reconsider the song. The eye can go back, the ear can go only forward with the voice of the newscaster.

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Evolution
In the 1830s, the major daily newspapers faced a new threat from the rise of penny papers, which were low priced broadsheets that served as a cheaper, more sensational daily source. They favored news of murder and adventure over the dry political news of the day. While newspapers catered to a wealthier, more educated audience, the penny press attempted to reach a wide swath of readers through cheap prices and entertaining, often scandalous, stories. The penny press can be seen as the forerunner to today’s gossip hungry tabloids.

Broadcast technology, including radio and television, had such a hold on the American imagination that newspapers and other print media found themselves having to adapt to the new media landscape. Print media was more durable and easily archived, and it allowed users more flexibility in terms of time, once a person had purchased a magazine, he or she could read it whenever and wherever. Broadcast media, in contrast, usually aired programs on a fixed schedule, which allowed it to both provide a sense of immediacy and fleetingness. Until the advent of digital video recorders in the late 1990s, it was impossible to pause and rewind a live television broadcast.

In Music
The emergence of rock journalism coincided with an attempt to position rock music, particularly the Beatles' work, in the American cultural landscape. The critical discourse was further heightened by the respectful coverage afforded the genre in mainstream publications such as Newsweek, Time and Life.

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Coverage
News items, stories in which a topical event is signaled and described, were the commonest form of popular music coverage in the US, France, and the Netherlands in 1955. In Germany, announcements, short information pieces of ten to thirty lines, publicizing the availability of a new product, were the commonest form of popular music article at the time. However, a substantial number of popular music reviews were published in 1955, albeit to a lesser extent in Germany, these include reports on products, typically albums or live performances, that contain evaluative elements, in addition to descriptive ones.

Due to the limited amount of space given to popular music in 1955, the actual number of reviews are small. In the US, reviews focus almost exclusively on reviews of jazz albums. The popular music reviews published in France and Dutch in 1955 concentrated primarily on live performances and to a lesser extent, jazz.


Years Companies  Station Owned Newspapers Daily Newspapers Weekly
1999 1483 7471
1998 1489 7267
1997 1509 7191
1996 1520 7655
1995 1543 9011
1994 1548 9067
1993 1556 9177
1992 8679 1570 8293
1991 1586 8546
1990 1611 8420
1989 1626 7622
1988 652 1642 7438
1987 8970 643 1645 6750
1986 729 1657 6857
1985 772 1676 6811
1984 779 1688 6798
1983 793 1701 6855
1982 8846 814 1711 6806
1981 834 1730 7238
1980 809 1745 7159
1979 801 1763 7357
1978 792 1756 7980
1977 8867 763 1766 8506
1976 769 1762 8735
1975 755 1756 8824
1974 750 1768 8711
1973 694 1774 8804
1972 8116 674 1751
1971 703 1749 8888
1970 841 1748 8903
1969 828 1758 8855
1968 755 1752 8858
1967 8094 742 1749 8915
1966 736 1754 9785
1965 735 1751 8989
1964 723 1763 9761
1963 8331 702 1754 9739
1962 1760 9774
1961 720 1761 9783
1960 1763 8979
1959 1755 9812
1958 7900 1761 9768
1957 1755 9854
1956 1761 9813
1955 1760 9126
1954 1765 9960
1953 1785 10173
1952 1786 10381
1951 1773 10514
1950 1772 9794
1949 1781 10386
1948 1780 10511
1947 8100 1769 10523
1946 1763 10424
1945 1749 10430
1944 1744 10504
1943 1754 10967
1942 1787 11474
1941 1857 11617
1940 1878 10860
1939 1888 11516
1938 1936 11421
1937 1983 11592
1936 1989 11288
1935 1950 11438
1934 1929
1933 1911 4218
1932 1913
1931 1943 6313
1930 1942
1929 1944 7075
1928 1939
1927 1949 6661
1926 2001
1925 2008 6435
1924 2014
1923 2036 5903
1922 2033
1921 2028 6059
1920 2042

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