Witness testimony of Fergus O’Kelly. read by Brian Greene for The Media Show Background. In 1964, Marshal McLuhan, Canadian philosopher of communication theory, wrote of the incident, The Irish Rebels used a ship’s radio to make, not a point-to-point message, but a diffused broadcast in hope of getting word to any ship that would relay…
Category: history
Child! that’s no way to treat your father!
From “OUR MASTER’S VOICE ADVERTISING” by JAMES RORTY About two years ago, Dr. Lee De Forest, one of the pionieers of electronic science, and by general concession one of trie begetters of radio, encountered the lost child in his travels and was inexpressibly shocked: “Why should any one want to buy a radio or new…
Sooty 1995 – 2007
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conor pope blogs over on the Irish Times ‘cassette death’ & I comment long live the compact cassette (CC). while curry’s may not stock it. the glut of journalist interviews recorded via CC over the decades are still on those treasured tapes in bank vaults. think of the student (Jim Duffy) that taped Brian Lenihan…
we need new commentators
Nearly 80 years ago, from a wooden hut that largely resembled a garden shed, the first ever commentary of a league football match was broadcast. 22/1/1927 20 years prior to that, radio got its first voice. Reginald Fessenden broadcast voice messages and a sound recording of ‘o holy night’ on violin to ships in the…