Music Videos and Radio

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Compare and contrast between: Radio, and Music Videos. Listening to the radio, and watching music videos, is ways of entertainment. Although the radio is a much older form, it is still used widely around the world today. Both are used by audience of all ages, and have different forms. From listening to the radio on your phone, to listening to it in your car, the radio has evolved throughout the years. It was invented in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi who demonstrated application of radio in commercial, military and marine communications and started a company for the development and propagation of radio communication services and equipment. The invention of amplitude-modulated (AM) radio, so that more than one station can send signals (as opposed to spark-gap radio, where one transmitter covers the entire bandwidth of the spectrum) is attributed to Reginald Fessenden and Lee de Forest. On Christmas Eve 1906, Reginald Fessenden used an Alexanderson alternator and rotary spark-gap transmitter to make the first radio audio broadcast, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible. In 1926, with the arrival of "talkies" many musical short films were produced. There are a lot of things about Music Videos, from clips from “The Beatles “ songs, to MTV creating VH1 or Video Hits one, music videos have truly changed during the years. A music video in 2005 had bad quality compared to the ones in 2013; these are because of better filming cameras, and improved editing software. 2005 saw the launch of the website YouTube, which made the viewing of online video much faster and easier; Google Videos, Yahoo! Video, Facebook and MySpace's video functionality, use similar technology. Such websites had a profound effect on the viewing of music videos; some artists began
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