Trends and Convergence in Radio and Sound Recording

Thursday, January 1, 2009

The Impact of Television

Television, specifically cable channel MTV, changed the recording industry too. MTV’s introduction in 1981 helped pull the industry out of it disastrous 1979 slump. However, it altered the radio – record company relationship, and many sits are introduced on MYV rather than on radio.

Satellite and Cable

The convergence of radio and satellite has aided the rebirth of the radio networks. Music and other forms of radio content can be distributed quite inexpensively to thousand of stations. As a result, one network can provide very different services to its very different affiliates.

Digital Technology

In the 1970s the basis of both recording and radio industries change from analog to digital recording. That is, sound went from being preserved as waves, whether physically on a disc or tape or through the air.

Convergence with computers and the Internet offers other challenges and opportunities to the radio and recording industries. The way the recording industry operates is likely to be altered by the internet.

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