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American magazine was first published in Colonial America, by 1825 there were established 100 magazines being published
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The first new mass media to affect magazines was film, which entered the realm of mass media in 1904 as the great train robbery drew in moviegoers
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Another aural medium, the phonograph record, began its commercial ascent in the 1910s but beginning in 1922 radio interrupted the progress of the phonograph industry and sales of both players and records drop 50% by 1924 over the previous year
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After the entrance of motion pictures as a competitive threat to magazines, the next new medium to enter the market place was radio. Unlike motion pictures this new mass media relied on consumer time and advertising sponsor revenue. Radio grew rapidly in popularity, with NBC forming the first formal network in 1926
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It was earlier in the 40s when television began its diffusion into US households, but network television did not begin until 1949
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Computers first appeared in their main frame forms in the 1940s and 1950s and government agencies and universities; eventually they migrated to the publishing industry in the 1960s and 1970s, providing in effective mean for magazines to reduce costs and improve production quality via electronic typesetting and preproduction
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In this new millennium, the centuries— Old magazine industry is faced with the World Wide Web, a mass communications medium that some consider interpersonal in nature, offering many of the benefits provided by print, radio, and television