Chapter 4

The telegraph is what pretty much gace birth to the radio.  With improvements upon the telegraph, radio was finally made.  When radio first came out, it wasn't intended to play music.  The music industry actually didn't even like it and wanted to get rid of it.  They didn't see the potential of radio to be used as it is today but when they did, it became a huge hit.  I just found it interesting that something as simple as sending a few beeps in morse code via telegraph could lead into something as huge as radio, which can broadcasting any series of noises to virtually the entire world.

Early radio, at least in the 1920's and such, featured a lot of stories and shows.  This was before television came out, so this was people's main source of entertainment.  Today, there aren't any shows besides talkshows.  People listen to it mainly on the way to work or whenever they're in the car.  Radio is also mainly used to listen to music.  In my opinion, the actual radio hasn't changed much, but rather the music has.  It's still a good source of entertainment on the way to work or during a long roadtrip or something.

All in all, the radio is still a great medium for music.  Instead of having to go through all the trouble of buying an iPod and some expensive car that plays iPods and stuff, you can just get a normal car and turn the radio on for music.  You can even buy satellite radio and get that installed for even better music without as many commercials, or without any commercials at all, I wouldn't know because I just use normal radio.  As someone that listens to a very specific genre of music, classic rock, I can just tune to a specific station.