Lecture XII. Mass media, economy, sport in the usa

1.2. Radio

There is no national radio station in the US, but every large city has dozens of independent stations, which range from 24 hours day news to rock and classical music.

American radio broadcasts in two bands: FM and AM. Some stations are only talk radio — featuring interviews and discussions — while music radio stations broadcast one particular type of music: Top 40, hip-hop, country, etc. Radio broadcast companies have become increasingly consolidated in recent years. National Public Radio is the nation's primary public radio network, but most radio stations are commercial and profit-oriented.

A new form of radio that is gaining popularity is satellite radio. The two biggest subscriptions based radio services are Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, which have recently both merged together to form Sirius XM Radio. Unlike terrestrial radio music channels are commercial free and other channels feature very minimal commercials

1.3. Motion Pictures

In the 20^thcentury, the motion picture industry rose to become one of the most successful and powerful industries in the U.S. Along with other intellectual property industries, its relative importance to the American economy has strengthened as the importance of manufacturing and agriculture have decreased


1.4.Newspapers
Although there are two American News services operating worldwide the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) the tremendous size of the nation the variety of time zones and the general preoccupation with mainly local issues make it difficult for national daily newspaper to exist. And attempt has been made to introduce the popular US. Today on a nationwide basis and the Wall Street Journal comes close to been a national Newspaper. The New York Times with a circulation 900000 is perhaps the most influential daily newspaper, followed by the Washington Post and the Loss Angeles Times. All large American cities have at least one newspaper and, although largely concerned with local affairs they are also read in other states. Periodicals exist for virtually every type of interest, some with just tiny circulation others like Time with a circulation world wide of more than 6000000 copies. More than 50 leading magazines produce over one million copies of each issue.

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