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Issues in radio today Fragmentation of audience Formats Concentration of station ownership Alternative platforms Performance Rights Act
Radio workplace Runs on love more than any other media People who practice it are very passionate about it, that's what keeps it going
Audio software popular music exploded in early 20th century player pianos rise of ragtime- very difficult to play
1984 Domain name system (DNS) established Network addresses identified by extensions- .com, .org, .edu The Mac is introduced First user friendly personal computer
2003 Internet users now illegally download about 2.6 billion files each month Spam now accounts for about half of all e-mails The Controlling The Assault of Non-solicited Pornography and Marketing Act is signed Will help individuals and businesses control amount of unsolicited e-mail they receive iTunes opens, allowing 99 cent song downloads
First corporate PR department Est. by Westinghouse Electric in 1889
Future Media winners telephone companies, cell phones and PDAs, social networking, programmers who adapt to Internet
The Cold War August 1957: USSR test fires an ICBM October 1957: USSR launches Sputnik ICBM- intercontinental ballistic missile
Freedom of press Net turns every user into potential mass communicator Can give voice to those typically denied expression
Tin Pan Alley one of the places in America where roots of popular music went down first early days of popular music
Lesleigh Neilsen Recent death Star of Airplane, The Naked Gun
Entry-level job Board operator/DJ
Animation in sitcoms Becomes more of a force More topical, more freedom with material The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, King of the Hill
Ry Cooder "Bop Til You Drop" First digitally recorded album Using digital equipment
Psychographics Psychological aspects of an audience Attitudes, beliefs, values, interests, motivations Not measurable Ex. Republicans, Christians
Bloggers MoveOn.org- encouraged Congress to censure President Clinton rather than impeach Online News Association- formed by bloggers to use Internet to make a difference
High Definition (HD) radio Terrestrial rather than satellite delivered No sub fee, requires special receiver CD quality sound (maybe) Text info Allows for "streaming" of multiple channels (all jazz, all Beatles, Kisspanic)
MADD Campaign created by Candy Lightner, 1980 Drunk Driving Prevention Act- offers states financial incentives to set up programs that would reduce alcohol & drug auto deaths Victim's Crime Act- federal law for drunk drivers to compensate victims & families
Great grandaddies of Internet Samuel Morse Vannever Bush
Demographics Age, gender, income, occupation, ethnicity Ex. TV channels/mags reach different demographics Pure, measurable, hard facts
Cable Very early days of television broadcasting Originally a means of delivering TV signals to rural areas that could not receive them
Early 1970's TCP/IP smooths out differences between networks Network protocol that translates different networks Crucial part of Internet
Comcast More radio subscribers than any other Multiple Systems Operator (MSO) Time Warner = 2nd largest
"The Book" Term used for ratings results Arbitron controls ratings in radio
Bill Gates Founded Microsoft Corporation, 1975
Wheeler-Lea Act 1938, granted FTC extended powers to regulate advertising
Edward R. Murrow Began with CBS on radio Moved over to TV "Hear it Now" became "See it Now" Battled with Senator McCarthy, Red Scare- courage to stand up to him Worked with Fred Friendly- headed CBS News
Monetizing How do we make money? PayWall method- charge usage or subscription fee Google Model- make it available for free, attract a user base
Warner Owned by Time Warner
"All in the Family" 1971-1983 Norman Lear, producer/creator The Jeffersons, Maude, Archie Bunker's place Family unit was as conflicted as American society was then Dealt with very contemporary issues, very popular
Performance Rights Act When radio plays song, composer is compensated; bands don't get any money Potential bill would require radio to pay artists as well
Situation comedy Reflect how we view the concept of family in America
Vannever Bush "Memex" idea (1945) Idea for a machine Published story in Atlantic Monthly Idea: desk that people would sit at, spools of different types of film User can choose story to read, would be loaded on desk Very complicated, never got made
Flack derrogatory name given to public relations professionals
Zero waste circulation Advertising is expensive Ideal: every ad run will only be read/seen by potential buyers of product Never reached, but companies constantly strive for this
Advertising/PR Uses mass communications as persuasion Pervasive through all forms of media
First radio ad WEAF, 1922
1970's TV Crime shows dominant Cops solved crimes with fists and guns Didn't trust police establishment People concerned about urban crime
Stereo sound introduced in 1930's did not become widespread until 1950's 33 1/3 RPM records (1947)
Federal Privacy Act 1974 Restricts government's ability to collect and distribute information about citizens
HMV "His Master's Voice" logo for RCA-Victor in England icon: Nipper, the dog, listening to gramophone
Early 1980's Cable moved to urban markets Cable programming influences broadcast/recording industry
Compact disc Invented in 1982 Blindingly fast Diffusion of Innovations Music sounded so much better
Business of radio: licensing firms handle money, make sure artist is paid for use of songs American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI)
Virtual democracy Internet characterized by freedom and self-governance
A Brief & True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia 1588, Published by John White to lure European settlers
Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act 1946 Those who deal with federal employees on behalf of private clients must disclose those relationships
2001 It's estimated that Internet users are illegally downloading over 1 billion music files each month Over 400 million users About 9.8 billion electronic messages are sent daily the iPod debuts Wikipedia is created
The Consumerist Monitoring and exposing companies that treat consumers unfairly
Four Major Recording Studios Sony/BMG EMI Warner Universal
Spam Unsolicited commercial e-mail
E-mail Can communicate with anyone else online, any place in the world
"The Honeymooners" Significant early sitcom
Global village New communication technologies will permit people to become increasingly involved in one another's lives
Samuel Morse Morse code Form of binary communication
Producers Oversee recording sessions Add string arrangements, etc. Create sound mix Part of creative process, artistic decisions Assisted by engineer- takes care of technical side, makes technical decisions
Blinks One-second commercials between songs on the radio
Ray Tomlinson Created first e-mail program, 1972
The Drudge Report Broke scandal during Clinton administration Forced the issue so it couldn't be ignored
2009 Government mandated transition to HDTV and analog to acquire more bandwidth
TV Careers Production work Advertising News jobs- camera work, editor, reporter
The Publicity Bureau 1906, first publicity company Opened first in Boston
Borders and B&N Possibly merging
Rise of Fox News Changed everything about TV News Example of reinforcement in media Murdoch- fosters conservative agenda, threw subjectivity out window News sources not unbiased anymore
IM Real-time version of e-mail
Digital Millenium Copyright Act 1998, goal: to bring US copyright law in compliance with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Victor Talking Machine Co. Started by Emile Berliner, 1901 merged with RCA to make RCA-Victor
PR Creative Specialist Writers, artists, etc.
1973 E-mail accounts for 75% of all ARPAnet traffic
TBS Advertiser supported
Early rock Bill Haley and the Comets Elvis Presley
Freedom of expression Internet difficult to control Freedom form control is medium's primary strength
Guest speaker, PR Dr. Jack "The Flack" Raskopf Former professor of TCU PR, advertising, Navy, professor
Top Cable Networks in subscribers TBS CNN TNT Discover Channel Weather Channel USA Network More than 100 million viewers
Public relations "Advertising in disguise"
PR- _____ times as valuable as advertising 7 Experiment, new product- 7 times more inquires from PR release than ad
Development of computer Originator- Charles Babbage, mid-1880's
Google Free to use How they make money: they advertise Most of money comes from advertising Adwords- 95% profits So large, they're starting to lose talent
Colossus First electronic digital computer Developed by British to break Germans' secret codes during WWII Reduced information to binary code- digits of 1 and 0
LAN Local Area Network
Declaration of Principles by Ivy Lee Argued that PR practitioners should be providers of info, not purveyors of publicity
Strawberry Fields Forever Song by the Beatles, 1967 Set the stage for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Produced by George Martin--nearly all of Beatles songs John Lennon composition Early example of how much Beatles changed popular music recording- tracks built in studio
Most famous PR case Bernays changed perception of it being inappropriate for women to smoke publicly Recruited women in Easter Parade to walk with lit cigarettes- "Freedom Torches"
FTC Primary federal agency to regulate ads Can impose fines Order creation and distribution of corrective advertising- new set of ad that correct original misleading efforts
Program director Determine which songs will be played DJ's almost never choose music anymore Musical decisions, determines personality of stations
Arbitron ratings Pretty much ongoing Sometimes they'll change formats based on one bad "book"
Recording Industry, Digital Age 1970's: ___________ Disco
Hosts Computers connected to Internet Often called servers
1997 The term "weblog" is coined It is later shortened to "blog" July 8, 1997- NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars 46 million hits in one day first big Web event
War in Iraq Embedded journalists- put up close and personal with soldiers at front of war
"The Clock" Programmed hour Usually a "clock" established for every hour of the day Time for ads, music, announcements, etc.
Juke boxes Invented in 1927 became popular in post WWII Era early form of "pay per view" concept selling music to public on song-by-song basis
The Weekly News First newsbook containing ads printed in England, 1625
Internet users At least 1.3 billion worldwide
Advertising agency 6,000 operating ad agencies in US employs 500,000 people
Propoganda Publicity stage
Sun Studios discovered and recorded Elvis Presley owned by Sam Phillips recorded many of early rock bands oversaw recordings of records, early music producer in rock 'n' roll
Blogs Web journals that comment on news, back up with evidence Responsible to no one
PR Executive Sets policy and serves as spokesperson for operation
Sales/marketing Best-paying job Selling air and time Really good in radio Radio sells a lot of ads
Google eBooks 3 million+ books, some free Another threat to ebook companies
Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) and Direct to Home (DTH) Dish Network (54% of subscribers) DirecTV (46% of subscribers) 30 million subscribers and rising
Promotional campaigns Most common types of PR Sales, image, lobbying
HTTP Hypertext Transport Protocol
Pornography Particular concern is shielding children
Edward Bernays PR pioneer Emphasized value of assessing public's feelings toward an organization Beginning of 2-way PR comm.
Lobbying Directly interacting to influence elected officials or government agents
Consumers Union Founded in 1936 To protect people from unprincipled manufacturers and advertisers
1972 Electronic mail starts (Ray Tomlinson) ARPAnet's "killer app"- to make it a "must buy"
2007 Over 100 million websites Between 15 and 30 billion pages iPhone debuts
Content models Original- Slate, Salon, etc.; original content unique to that site User-generated- Facebook, Flickr, etc; users generate content on site Aggregator- Huffington Post, etc; grabs stories from a lot of other sites and puts them on theirs
Media Foundation Increases public awareness of overconsumption and overcommercialization
Public relatons Publicity, research, public affairs, media relations, promotion, merchandising, etc. Should be honest and ethical
Good Night, and Good Luck Movie released in 2005 David Strathairn, George Clooney Chronicled battle between Murrow and McCarthy Draws analogy of re-living McCarthyism
Sony/BMG Bertelsmann Includes CBS and RCA music catalogs Bought out old RCA catalog
Psychographic segmentation Appealing to consumer groups with similar lifestyles, attitudes, values, and behavior patterns
Electronic Communication Privacy 1986, guarantees privacy of e-mail
Search engines Help find info on the Web Ask, Netscape, Yahoo!, Google
Demographic segmentation Appealing to audiences defined by varying personal and social characteristics (Race, gender, econ. level)
Copyright Infringement, posting other people's works on websites
First personal computer Altair 8800, released in 1975 $495 pre-built $360 as a kit "glorified calculator" Inspired Bill Gates and friend, designed basic programming- beginning of Microsoft
Beatles on iTunes 450,000 albums sold 2 million individual songs Sold worldwide in first week
"Moucy for Nothing" 1985 by Dire Straits ft. Sting British group Europeans adapted trend of music videos much more quickly MTV primarily showed videos of white poeple
Consumer culture Personal worth and identity reside in the products which we surround ourselves
Ambient advertising Ads appearing in non-traditional venues
Columbia Records part of the beginnings of CBS owned by Paley family major part of CBS
Digital radio Satellite radio HD radio
Community Antenna Television (CATV) The whole town sharing one big antenna Coming from single source, spread through hardwired network
Foreign Agents Registration Act 1938 Anyone who engages in political activities in US on behalf of foreign power must register as agent of that power
1914 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Duty: monitor and regulate advertising
Rating the Web Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) Asks site about presence of content
Walter Cronkite Anchor of CBS News broadcast, 1962-1981 Known as most trusted man in America, everyone believed anything Cronkite told them Kennedy assassination, Vietnam War, man on the moon, the Beatles
HDTV Digital TV, 16 x 9 aspect ratio Resolution: 1080i or 1080p
Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison, 1877 First recording and playback device Meant for business, adopted as entertainment
Committee on Public Information (CPI) 1917, headed by George Creel Sold Liberty bonds, increased membership in Red Cross Used movies, public speakers, articles, posters
Rate of memory decay After 4 days, less than 25% of people can remember
TV "Superstation" TBS, founded by Ted Turner
HBO Subscriber supported
Edward Bernays Father of PR
60 Minutes Longets-running primetime TV show in history, 1968 to present Sunday night news documentary program
PR Media Specialist Find right media for clients' messages
Era of analog recording until the 1980's
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
FTC Online privacy Do Not Track law- proposed, websites can't track your history
Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) First successful commercial computer Census Bureau, 1951
Gramophone Invented by Emile Berliner, 1888 replaced the phonograph Played flat discs
ARPA Set up by Eisenhower in 1958 Central developer for strategic technologies "Single manager" for defense research
1941 War Advertising Council Joined group of national advertising and media associations Promoted numerous government programs
ABC's Nightline Created to provide more coverage of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, 1979 Went on more than a year, stuck with this story Still on schedule today
Internet advertising Extremely narrow categories Users can be targeted based on pages browsed Goes beyond demographics and psychographics to specific terms
Ted Turner WTBS, 1976 One of the first to use satellites Station in Atlanta, put up on satellite and offered to cable systems First superstation Basic service- covered in monthly bill
Browsers Software programs loaded onto the user's computer and used to download and view Web files Netscape, Internet Explorer
1980's:____________ Digital Era Synthesizers dominated the sound
Universal Owned by NBC-Universal
PR (publicity) Release of information to news outlets or media that an organization believes to be newsworthy Prepared in an ostensibly objective style The more objective a release looks, the more readily it will be accepted Much more difficult than advertising
Hypertext transfer protocols (HTTP) Used by WWW to transfer files from one place to another Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
Industrialization and Civil War Brought expansion of advertising
Four basics to have a good advertising program: 1) Image is everything 2) Perception is reality 3) Advertising only works through repetition, repetition, repetition... 4) What's in it for me?
Other current sitcom trends Forensic cop shows- scientifically based, solve crimes with science Reality shows- economically motivated, not as much a societal trend
Future Media losers CD's/recorded music, HD radio, magazines, Bluray DVD's, 3D Television, local broadcast TV, network television news
ARPAnet Shared network between universities Prime goal: decentralized communication Reroute communication automatically
Satellite radio Subscriber supported XM- 170 channels (including Oprah) Sirius- 130 channels (including Howard Stern) Have now merged into single company 19.5 million subscribers together
1994 White House launches www.whitehouse.gov e-Commerce: selling things on Internet, controversial at first SPAM begins Big spammers- lawyers, spammed about people being able to get green cards 45 million Internet useres
Edward Bernays The "father of PR" Relation of Sigmund Freud Understood psychology behind it
"Spin" Carefully crafted half-truth Negative, implies they're not telling the complete truth
1999 College student Shawn Fanning invents Napster Number of Internet users worldwide reaches 150 million (more than 50% from US) "e-Commerce" becomes new buzzword as Internet shopping rapidly spreads Myspace.com is launched Almost 5 million websites
TV Advertising TV soon became primary national ad medium
The Beatles and recording industry Top selling band of all time Group that has sold the most albums ever Finally on iTunes, using software to profit hardware More expensive
Board operator Button pusher In charge of tech board that routes signals, controls mics, etc. Vital, but very simple work
1980's Joe Camel campaign Attempt to attract young smokers Most recognizable logo in the country
Ted Turner Launched CNN in 1980 People thought there was no way this could work; 24 hour news channel, devoted only to news programming
HD's Impact on TV Smaller text TiVo, DVR, On Demand and Online Viewing Changing the way we view TV Undermining traditional advertising
McLuhan Ahead of his time Internet has returned him to forefront of cultural discussion on mass media Global village, media as extension of our bodies
Origins of the Internet: command and control version Internet is a product of the Cold War
Advertising Controlled, identifiable persuasion through the mass media (including Internet) "It ain't creative if it don't sell"
ARPAnet efficiency More efficient use of network bandwidth Voice vs. computers Multiple computers can send/receive at the same time Only use line when sending information
Blogs Frequently mess up news stories News organizations resort it as a fact Make stuff up, not legit
MTV 1981 Causes switch from singles-based promotion to video-based promo Music industry was driven by music videos
WAN Wide Area Network
DJ (disc jockey) On air
1962 "Galactic Network" concept, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT Government had universities doing research for them Computers were big, very expensive Idea- have one or two computers for people to share, first idea of network
Origins of the Internet: decentralization version 1956- Joseph Licklider foresaw linked computers and "home computer consoles"
ISPs Internet service providers Companies that offer Internet connections at monthly rates
Copyright Intellectual property ownership Designed to ensure people who create content are financially compensated for work
Flash Animation software, Adobe owns
F. Wayland Ayer Owns oldest advertising firm in United States Began full-service agency in 1869- N.W. Ayers & Sons
Most popular format News/talk
1989 Internet access opens to public, just under 1 million users Tim Berners-Lee- develops World Wide Web Originally a way for physicists to share research papers Users hyperlinks- links related stories WWW uses GUI (Graphic User Interface) Web is part of Internet, not entire thing
News becomes big business in ___________ 1970's
Current sitcoms Workplace families (The Office) "Friends" model (How I Met Your Mother) Multi-cultural family (Modern Family) American family goes to hell (Family Guy)
Advertising is... Intrusive, deceptive, exploits children, demeans and corrupts culture
Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniack 1977 Invented Apple II- low-cost microcomputer designed for personal use
Pseudo-event An event staged specifically to attract public attention
Death of compact disc and album US CD sales have dropped: 48.9% since 2000 worldwide, total music sales: dropped 17% in 2007
Home pages Entryway to site itself Provides hyperlinks to other material in that site
Prosumers Proactive consumers, use multiple sources to research product and negotiate price
Network news broadcasts Begin in 1948 Did not go to 30 minutes until 1963
Media as extension of our bodies Permit us to experience world with a scope and depth otherwise impossible Alter relationship between people and world
Ad Council "Effecting positive social change" Primary focus today is kids' issues
2006 Over 92 million websites Youtube sold to Google for 1.65 billion Twitter launched, no income plan at first
Magazine advertising by 1900's magazines were financially supported primarily by advertisers
Strategic communications Advertising, PR, promotion
WANs Wide area networks Connecting LANs in different locations
2005 Youtube.com is launched Simple way to share videos
National Advertising Review Board (NARB) 1971 Monitored potentially deceptive advertising Investigates consumer complaints
PR Account Exec Provides advice to client, defines problems and situations, assesses needs and demands of client's publics, etc.
Blanket license can play any music by any artist who has agreement with ASCAP and BMI
Sputnik, 1957 Launched by Soviet Union First human-constructed satellite
Facebook Social advertising technology Private avengers- revolt against Facebook on Facebook
Public Relations Society of America Founded in 1947
Internet news sources The Drudge Report Blogs
World Wide Web Released in 1992 More than 1.1 million hosts
Facebook Starting to drain talent from Google Privacy concerns, has been a big issue for Mark Zuckerberg Paying for it with your information
1969 ARPAnet goes online Beginning of the Internet Connected UCLA, Stanford, Univ. California Santa Barbara, Univ. Utah
Promotion Combination of Ad and PR Usually a physical event ex. NASCAR- advertising on cars
Home Box Office 1975 First premium service Pay extra subscriber fee
"I Love Lucy" 1951-1957 Three-camera technique Beginning of sitcom on TV Usual structure of sitcom: take "clowns" and put them in certain situations, usually conflict with situation
1980's TV Cable fragments the audience Programming diversified rapidly Couldn't readily say which type of programming was dominant
LANs Local area networks Connect 2 or more computers (usually within same building)
EMI British company behind The Beatles
Internet A global network of interconnected computers that communicate freely and share and exchange information
Informational campaigns Non-profits Breast cancer awareness- immense PR campaign, designed to raise money/get people to think about it
1973 ARPA offers to give ARPAnet to AT&T for free, tried to make it a privately owned business AT&T DECLINES
Advertising Mediated messages paid for by and identified with a business or institution seeking to increase likelihood that those who consume will act as they wish
Geostationary communications satellite Invented by Arthur C. Clarke Wrote article, "Extra Terrestrial Relays" (1945) 22,300 miles above earth- certain place to put satellite, move at same rate as rotation of Earth Launched in mid-1970's