Broadcast Media

As soon as my dad comes home, the television is flashes on-assuming it originally wasn’t on to begin with.  

As soon as anyone goes into the car, the radio blares on.  I can lie in my bed at 11 o’clock at night trying to fall asleep after a lot day, and my neighbor across the street can blast music from the radio full volume with bass.  In case of an emergency- an earthquake, a fire, a blackout- we try to tune into the local radio station to find out what is happening.  In today’s society, broadcast media plays a major role in our everyday lives.  It alerts us, entertains us, and keeps us company. 

                My dad literally sleeps with the radio on (of course he snores, not that he can hear it), and my dad’s side of the family are used to sleeping with the television on.  In my house, my dad needs to have the TV or radio on. At all times. It doesn’t even matter if he’s in the house or not.  Now, I know my family is not the only one who depends on the television and radio.  Plenty of people’s lifeblood is broadcast media.  Why else do so many people spend so much time glued to the couch and their eyes stuck to the TV?

                That’s just one side of looking at broadcast media, but what about the impact that it has played in our society- our history?  Broadcast media has allowed an expansion of technologies to be thought up, invented, created, and essential to our everyday lives.   We can see the exact image and voice of a person broadcasting from millions of miles away! That itself was an uproar when the television became popular and available to the public.  We can communicate news and information from across the nation, and even the globe in real time.  Enterprises have been created off of broadcast media.  Broadcast media has created a bridge connecting to the whole world.

                Broadcast media has changed the world for the better.  We have become more aware of our surroundings, and events millions and billions of miles away in seconds.  We are more connected with as a world.  We are able to laugh at the same comedies and sitcoms, we can cry to the same dramas, we can be informed by the same information or news programs, and we can becomes unified as one- the earth.