Pub Date : 2007-11-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701583262
David Allan
Can less really be more? This study is designed to provide the radio and advertising industries with an objective, theoretical foundation to what is being called “Less Is More.” Specifically, this study compares the effectiveness of 30-second and 60-second radio commercials on unaided recall. The results indicate that the brand recall as well as the message and proven recall of advertising from 60-second commercials are significantly greater than from 30-second commercials. The results also indicate that the first or second commercial in the commercial set will be better recalled. Based on these results, this study suggests a possible pricing model for 30-second commercials and a premium for first or second in-pod placement. This study was sponsored by the National Association of Broadcasters 2005 Grants for Research in Broadcasting Program.
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Pub Date : 2007-11-01DOI: 10.1080/10955040701583205
Heather Polinsky
The passage of the Telecommunication Act of 1996 eliminated national radio station ownership limits and considerably relaxed local station ownership caps compared to previous ownership restrictions. Media policymakers have been concerned that increases in media ownership concentration not decrease market format diversity. However, recent format diversity research on the radio industry has not directly considered other factors beyond ownership concentration that may affect format diversity. This study replicates Rogers and Woodbury's (1996) and found the number of programming formats broadcasting in a market (format diversity) is positively related to the number of radio stations serving the market. The percentage of market population listening to radio is positively related to the number of market stations and is not statistically related to the number of formats. This study also found increases in radio ownership concentration do not affect the number of market formats; however increases in ownership concentration may negatively affect the size of a market's radio audience.
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Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301755
Thomas B. Christie
Nontraditional sources of news, such as talk radio and the Internet, complement and sometimes replace traditional mainstream news sources. Using discriminant function analysis, this study reveals the role of values in predicting listening to political talk and religious radio programs. A model using the construct of “value equivalence” explains value differences between user and media that may affect whether or not news from nontraditional sources will be sought and used. Research questions are answered using data from the 2004 Pew Research Center Biennial Consumption Survey. Using selected independent variables (including value-based variables) to predict listening to the Rush Limbaugh program, 59% of all cases in this study were correctly classified. Using the same set of value-based variables to predict listening to religious radio shows yielded nearly 74% correctly classified cases. An earlier version of this manuscript was awarded first place, debut category, broadcast and Internet radio division competition, and presented at the 49th Annual Convention of the Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, NV, April 2004.
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Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301870
Mira Moshe
This study examines an Israeli right-wing pirate radio station, Channel 7. Channel 7 was established in 1988 as a sea-based pirate radio station of the right-wing block in the religious-Zionist movement. Three questions were posed in the research: (a) What is the social representation of right-wing pirate radio station in the Knesset (Israeli parliament) discussions? (b) Did Yitzhak Rabin (Israeli Prime Minister) assassination influence the social representation of Channel 7 in the Knesset discussions? and (c) How does right-wing Knesset Members' social representation of Channel 7 differ from that of left-wing Knesset Members? An analysis of 115 parliamentary debates held in Israel between 1993 and 2003 referring to Channel 7 suggests the Knesset tended to affirm right-wing argumentation, Rabin's assassination strengthened right-wing as well as left-wing contentions, both right-wing and left-wing MKs tended to preserve the status quo and avoid changes, and right-wingers turned down left-wing demands for regulation.
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Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301706
Douglas A. Ferguson
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Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301847
E. Megwa
This study investigated the impact of using community radio stations to extend information and communication technology (ICT) benefits to poor communities in South Africa. Six community radio stations in six rural South African communities were studied, using face-to-face interviews, community conversations, and observation method. The study found these radio stations have ICT presence, but because of a lack of resources they are only able to allow their stakeholder communities' indirect access to these technologies. It concludes that for these stations to realize their full development potential of extending ICTs to poor rural communities in South Africa, collaborative innovative strategies will have to be instituted. The author thanks Andy Alali and several anonymous reviewers for their assistance and suggestions. An earlier version of this work was presented as a top research paper to the Human Information Technology Division at the 97th annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association in Philadelphia, April 2006
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Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301979
A. Clark
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Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301771
Samuel J. Sauls, Danny Greer
Although no news of the FCC task force initiative on localism came forth between 2004 and 2006, members of Congress have taken an interest in the effects of localism in radio broadcasting. This interest can be attributed to the view that radio consolidation has minimized local radio service. As well, satellite-delivered radio has begun to encroach on local radio as it now provides traffic and weather updates in selected metropolitan markets. This article investigates the status of radio and localism, an issue that affects listeners across the nation. The original version of this article was presented within the competitive paper session of the Radio & Audio Media Division at the Broadcast Education Association 2006 Annual Convention in Las Vegas, NV.
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Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301961
Bradley L. Nason
Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi is not for the faint of heart. Author Timothy C. Campbell’s interesting theory of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi’s impact on poetry, aesthetics, and writing at the turn of the 20th century can get lost in 170-plus pages of dense writing and analytical asides. This in no way is meant to slight the scholarly contribution of Campbell, an assistant professor of Italian at Cornell University, which is considerable. But if you are looking for a readable narrative along the lines of Tom Lewis’s 1991 Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, you will not find it here. In Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi, Campbell argues that current media theory employing the term radio is too general. Instead, his intent “is to outline a possible media system to which the wireless belongs” (p. 70). The term wireless “is more precise to the degree it names not only the telegraph Marconi invented in 1895 but also the series of couplings and interfaces over a thirty-year arc” (p. xiv), the period that his analysis covers. The book contains five chapters, of which the first, “Marconi, Marconistra: The Birth of Radiotelegraphy,” offers the best historical grounding of the period. In this chapter, Campbell argues that “instead of interpreting the string of dots and dashes spit out by the telegraph’s Morse machine, the wireless operator hears a string of weak signals over a headset and determines which are meaningful” (pp. 2–3), a theme to which he returns frequently. Here he looks at Marconi biographies and how they present the “cultural reception afforded the invention” (p. 13) of the telegraph. The other four chapters are devoted to close readings of major figures and works of the era, including Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio (chapter 2), F. T. Marinetti’s Futurist manifestos (chapter 3), Ezra Pound’s Cantos (chapter 4), and Pound’s Radio Rome broadcasts (chapter 5). Although these chapters are rich in textual detail, that richness can also be a diversion, leading even the author to catch himself, for instance, with “But let’s return to entropy and the wireless” (p. 88) or “For reasons that will be clear shortly” (p. 44). In places, Campbell’s analysis is both clear and compelling. For instance, in his chapter on Marinetti’s Futurist manifestos he writes about
马可尼时代的无线书写不适合胆小的人。作者Timothy C. Campbell关于意大利发明家Guglielmo Marconi在20世纪之交对诗歌,美学和写作的影响的有趣理论可以在170多页的密集写作和分析中迷失。坎贝尔是康奈尔大学意大利语专业的助理教授,他的学术贡献相当可观。但如果你想找一本像汤姆·刘易斯(Tom Lewis) 1991年的《空中帝国:造收音机的人》(Empire of the Air: the Men Who Made Radio)那样可读性强的书,你在这里找不到。在《马可尼时代的无线写作》一书中,坎贝尔认为,目前使用“无线电”一词的媒体理论过于笼统。相反,他的意图是“概述一种可能属于无线的媒体系统”(第70页)。“无线”一词“更精确的程度在于,它不仅命名了马可尼在1895年发明的电报,而且还命名了三十年来的一系列耦合和接口”(第xiv页),他的分析涵盖了这段时间。本书共分五章,其中第一章“马可尼,马可尼斯特拉:无线电报的诞生”为那段时期提供了最好的历史基础。在这一章中,坎贝尔认为,“无线操作员不是解读电报莫尔斯电报机发出的一串点和线,而是通过耳机听到一串微弱的信号,并决定哪些是有意义的”(第2-3页),这是他经常谈到的一个主题。在这里,他研究了马可尼的传记,以及它们如何呈现“发明电报的文化接受”(第13页)。另外四章是对那个时代的主要人物和作品的仔细阅读,包括意大利诗人加布里埃尔·达南齐奥(第二章)、f·t·马里内蒂的《未来主义者宣言》(第三章)、埃兹拉·庞德的《诗章》(第四章)和庞德的《罗马广播》(第五章)。尽管这些章节的文本细节丰富,但这种丰富也可能是一种转移,甚至让作者自己也迷失了方向,例如,“但让我们回到熵和无线”(第88页)或“原因很快就会清楚”(第44页)。在某些地方,坎贝尔的分析既清晰又引人注目。例如,在他关于马里内蒂未来主义宣言的章节中,他写道
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Pub Date : 2007-05-25DOI: 10.1080/10955040701301938
David E. Reese
If you teach audio production or a similar course, you might be interested in using Audio: The Movie, produced by Tracer Technologies, as supplementary material. Although the packaging states the DVD is a “college level course that will help you understand the principles of audio but bypasses most of the mathematics usually associated with such studies,” another statement on the DVD suggests it is “a course in audio theory for normal, average, every-day folks.” Finally, the www.tracertek.com Web site notes “this information is provided in easy to understand terms,” and for the most part, the viewer will find all these statements are fairly accurate. The first segment to Audio: The Movie, entitled “Getting Started,” takes a solid pedagogical approach and explains exactly what the DVD is about and what you will learn by watching it. Structured like a textbook, the DVD is divided into eight chapters of material. The introduction explains that the early chapters will present basic concepts, whereas the later chapters will offer more challenging and complex subjects, noting this is not unlike how information would be presented in a college course. The DVD comes with a 25-page “test booklet” designed to fit within the DVD package. The booklet provides a brief summary of the main points presented in each chapter, three multiple-choice test questions, and answers with an explanation of why a particular response is right or wrong. According to the booklet, “tests are designed not to determine how much you learned, but rather to help you think about the subject and learn even more.” There is some reliance on an “all of the above” approach with the questions, which probably allows for an expanded explanation section and references back to various segments of the DVD. Audio: The Movie content is presented with a narration track supplemented with ever-changing screen shots. Although the screens are mostly drawings or photos, animated screens are employed when it helps explain a concept. Some of the screens are full width, but many are various sizes that only fill a portion of the screen, and a few seem to have been resized to the point that they are distorted. Although the video is often static pictures, the pace is fast enough that there seems to be constant “action” with the result being that the viewer is not bored. Background music and sound effects are also used liberally to highlight a specific video screen or make a concept easier to grasp. For example, in a chapter 2 discussion of bandwidth, the viewer gets to both see onscreen and hear a comparison of 6 kHz bandwidth of human speech and the old 3 kHz bandwidth of telephone audio. The producers employ humor throughout the video, so the viewer might chuckle from time to time as he or she absorbs the factual content. In another chapter 2 discussion about the human range of hearing, they explain that a lack of high-frequency hearing explains why older folks hear words but find them hard to understand and
如果您教授音频制作或类似的课程,您可能会对使用Tracer Technologies制作的audio: The Movie作为补充材料感兴趣。虽然DVD的包装上写着这是一门“大学水平的课程,可以帮助你理解音频的原理,但绕开了通常与此类研究相关的大部分数学知识”,但DVD上的另一份声明表明,这是一门“为普通人、普通人、日常生活准备的音频理论课程”。最后,www.tracertek.com网站指出“这些信息是用易于理解的术语提供的”,而且在大多数情况下,浏览者会发现所有这些陈述都相当准确。音频:电影的第一部分,题为“入门”,采用了扎实的教学方法,并准确地解释了DVD的内容以及你将通过观看它学到什么。DVD的结构像教科书一样,分为八个章节。引言解释说,前几章将介绍基本概念,而后几章将提供更具挑战性和复杂的主题,并指出这与大学课程中的信息呈现方式没有什么不同。DVD附带了一个25页的“测试手册”,专为DVD包装而设计。这本小册子提供了每一章主要观点的简要总结,三个选择题,以及解释为什么一个特定的回答是正确的或错误的答案。根据这本小册子,“考试的设计不是为了确定你学了多少,而是为了帮助你思考这门学科,从而学到更多。”有一些问题依赖于“以上所有”的方法,这可能允许扩展解释部分并参考DVD的各个部分。音频:电影内容以旁白轨道呈现,辅以不断变化的屏幕截图。虽然屏幕主要是图画或照片,但当它有助于解释一个概念时,也会使用动画屏幕。有些屏幕是全宽的,但许多屏幕的大小各不相同,只占屏幕的一部分,还有一些屏幕的大小似乎被调整到了扭曲的程度。虽然视频通常是静态图片,但节奏足够快,似乎有持续的“动作”,结果是观众不会感到无聊。背景音乐和音效也被广泛用于突出特定的视频屏幕或使概念更容易理解。例如,在第二章关于带宽的讨论中,观众可以在屏幕上看到和听到6千赫带宽的人类语音和旧的3千赫带宽的电话音频的比较。制片人在整个视频中都运用了幽默,所以观众可能会在他或她吸收事实内容时不时地发笑。在另一章关于人类听力范围的讨论中,他们解释说,缺乏高频听力解释了为什么老年人听到单词但发现它们很难理解,《无线电研究杂志》/ 2007年5月
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