TNT Mini-Mag Entertainment | October 2016 | Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT

your train of thought. Radio had existed
decades before TV came onto the scene. It
is a major mass medium, which has
historically relied on commercial ads or is
chiefly funded by listeners. Radio also has
federal government programs for overseas
audiences.
Another reason as to why radio is
deeply important is that there exists the
“Broadcasting Board of Governors,” whose job it is to supervise the external broadcasting
network, Voice of America.
Here we go, when XM Satellite Radio came to surface, the woman with the golden
touch, Oprah Winfrey, got her own channel. Jane Pratt soon followed; Tyra Banks, Jesse
Jackson, and conservative talk show host Glenn Beck all had airtime.
Now radio can be downloaded online. There are free radio online streaming apps
for your favorite music such as instantradioplay.com, which enables you to choose your
own stations and playlists for free! RadioAnytime.com and the official site of iHeartRadio
(iheart.com) allows you to have all of your music and all your stations all for free. You
can create custom stations from millions of artists. And… again…“free” is the magic
word!
Let’s not forget that the Latinos play their part and carry serious weight from Miami,
Orlando, and across Florida with Spanish music.
I gave you some good, so the only bad is not listening, and the ugly, is having
“nothing to say.”
While radio can evolve and expand with the changing times using technology to reach
the masses, radio will never die!
“I say, the future of radio lies entirely in the hands of public demand, unlike the newspaper,
radio will never be out of print.”

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