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Directions (Qs. 46 to 50) : Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it. Radio's development over the years has been very much a function of its potential social usage as a medium. The arrival of phonograph, film and the 'wireless' all offered the reporter a tool for presentation that challenged existing communication of time and space, but this was not immediately obvious at the time. In fact, their ultimate application differed from their intended purpose. Early pioneers such as Marconi saw radio not as a mass medium but as a means of one-to-one communication. Broadcast journalism emerged only after a systematic struggle for acceptance within the media—not just by inventors and pioneers of equipment, but by reporters and broadcasters. The techniques that are used for reporting today are not automatic or set in stone. They took time to develop. Often there was opposition to many of the now accepted tasks that broadcast journalists presently undertake on a routine, daily basis. Technical breakthroughs throughout the twentieth century relentlessly increased the potential for immediacy and hence dramas through recording and reporting that have always aimed to appear as 'live' as possible. However, the arrival of a new means of disseminating information and entertainment tends to destabilize the existing media system, thus radio posed a challenge to the historic relationship between wire services and newspapers. The press in both Britain and the United States lobbied heavily for statutory restrictions on broadcasting, for they wanted to ensure that it was they who carried breaking news first–despite the fact that radio was, in retrospect, a more flexible and instant medium for doing this. Early radio news was a prisoner to the press. When the BBC started its General News bulletins on 23 December 1922, the organization had no in-house journalists. They were dependent on the supply of copy from Reuters, which owned the copyright, announced as a prelude to each bulletin. The BBC was obliged to transmit radio news only after the appearance of morning and evening newspapers. Text-based information had to be converted into writing for listeners' ears, into a style suitable for radio, but there were no interviews, features or actuality. Notwithstanding this, radio's take-off was swift and public enthusiasm for it peaked during the golden age' of the 1930s and 1940s. Millions used radio as the main source of both information and entertainment. News was just one element of a schedule among drama, soap operas, music, comedy and talks. The thinking was that audiences should enjoy the entire range of mixed programming output, from classical music through to drama and news. Audiences were not separated or differentiated. This coexistence has involved gradual adaptations towards more entertaining styles of news presentation. 46. What were the innovations that challenged the time and space in communication?

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1700+ communication & journalism questions.The UGC NET Mass Communication and Journalism syllabus consists of 10 units: Communication & Journalism  Role of media in society, Demographic & sociological impact of media, effects Journalism- role & responsibilities, Indian constitution Magazines, Press Commission, Small Newspaper, Press Councils, Development of Radio after independence, Development of Television, Committees in broadcasting, Communication & theories of social change, Role of media in social change, and Cinema Dominant paradigm & alternative conception Administrative &... Show more

Directions (Qs. 46 to 50) : <em>Read the following</em> <em>passage and answer the questions given below it.</em> Radio's development over the years has been very much a function of its potential social usage as a medium. The arrival of phonograph, film and the 'wireless' all offered the reporter a tool for presentation that challenged existing communication of time and space, but this was not immediately obvious at the time. In fact, their ultimate application differed from their intended purpose. Early pioneers such as Marconi saw radio not as a mass medium but as a means of one-to-one communication. Broadcast journalism emerged only after a systematic struggle for acceptance within the media—not just by inventors and pioneers of equipment, but by reporters and broadcasters. The techniques that are used for reporting today are not automatic or set in stone. They took time to develop. Often there was opposition to many of the now accepted tasks that broadcast journalists presently undertake on a routine, daily basis. Technical breakthroughs throughout the twentieth century relentlessly increased the potential for immediacy and hence dramas through recording and reporting that have always aimed to appear as 'live' as possible. However, the arrival of a new means of disseminating information and entertainment tends to destabilize the existing media system, thus radio posed a challenge to the historic relationship between wire services and newspapers. The press in both Britain and the United States lobbied heavily for statutory restrictions on broadcasting, for they wanted to ensure that it was they who carried breaking news first–despite the fact that radio was, in retrospect, a more flexible and instant medium for doing this. Early radio news was a prisoner to the press. When the BBC started its General News bulletins on 23 December 1922, the organization had no in-house journalists. They were dependent on the supply of copy from Reuters, which owned the copyright, announced as a prelude to each bulletin. The BBC was obliged to transmit radio news only after the appearance of morning and evening newspapers. Text-based information had to be converted into writing for listeners' ears, into a style suitable for radio, but there were no interviews, features or actuality. Notwithstanding this, radio's take-off was swift and public enthusiasm for it peaked during the golden age' of the 1930s and 1940s. Millions used radio as the main source of both information and entertainment. News was just one element of a schedule among drama, soap operas, music, comedy and talks. The thinking was that audiences should enjoy the entire range of mixed programming output, from classical music through to drama and news. Audiences were not separated or differentiated. This coexistence has involved gradual adaptations towards more entertaining styles of news presentation.<br /> 46. What were the innovations that challenged the time and space in communication?






 
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