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History of mass media

By Alex17
  • Printed press

    Printed press

    the first continuous press was started in Boston
  • Manufacturing

    Manufacturing

    machines and manufacturing made the production of newspapers faster and less expensive
  • Radio

    Radio

    the first radio station with commercial sponsors and programming went on the air in Pittsburgh
  • Movie attendance

    Movie attendance

    average weekly movie attendance was 40 million
  • Golden age

    Golden age

    Radio reached its “Golden Age” during the 1930s
  • Radios

    Radios

    by 1934 the majority of the homes in the U.S. had radios
  • Magazines

    Magazines

    mass circulation magazines were well established
  • Computers

    Computers

    magazines no longer had to hire typesetters. Writers and editors did the typesetting while they wrote and edited.
  • The internet

    The internet

    Top magazines lost 61 million readers between 1997 and 1999 which led the study to blame the decline on reader migration to the Internet
  • Internet

    Internet

    advertisers will increasingly migrate to online business–to–business sites