How the transition from radios amplified our lives 🤔 ?

Radio is extremely old and also a part of lifestyle which is not bygone and still many people used it till now and part of it is really interesting that back in the days there were many occasions which connect people on many different occurrences, people would gather at one place would enjoy music, news, important updates and the best part sport news was and will be especially cricket will be all-time famous among Indians. But is the radio dead? do people still tune to a radio? How the transition from just a mere newspaper to radio changed our life?

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor who invented radio waves around 1895 and that was just the start of the revolution in the era of technology…on how we transmit information from one place to another, mostly back in the days during the world war radio waves was something people highly relied on and still do, so what would come after radio waves, well according to many researchers it would be Quantum Entanglement but still it’s a long way to go.

There are many sorts of radio available like Portable radio, Handheld radio, of course nowadays it’s in-built in our smartphone.

Radio act as a crucial source for passing information to a large audience just through the means of air and the best part about it you don’t need to have any sort of subscription to listen it’s all free, who says we cannot live without an Internet…well anyone can tune-in to radio for a day and celebrate digital detox.

Commercial radio became extremely popular among people and the use of radio among common citizens increased exponentially whether be it religion prayer, music, sports news it was the smartphone of that era.

For a time people were so excited about this whole thing. Eventually, as time went by the broadcasting centre were set up all across the world and there was a standard spectrum set by the government for the broadcasting centre to use.

Let’s talk a bit about radio waves, on how it travels in the air?

Just like how we communicate with each other as if I say something the air around me goes through a series of vibration technically speaking compression and rarefaction and that vibration reaches the ear and makes the eardrum vibrates. Now, human has a hearing range of 20Hz to 20Khz so in radio waves what we do take a sound and modulate it to certain higher spectrum and transmit it through the air and at the receiver end the higher spectrum of frequency is demodulated to make it audible to human ears.

This is just the basic of sound gets transmitted through the air.

Radio is also an effective medium through which millions of people are able to become unified on the basis that they are common recipients of a particular message. In India, the first radio station was installed in Bombay in 1927, followed by Calcutta and Delhi in 1936. In 1986 India had 86 radio stations. Today over 95% of the country’s population is covered by All India Radio’s broadcast services.

As years passed by, the government-sponsored All India Radio slowly introduced commercial broadcasts. Today India has quite a large number of commercial channels. For several decades in India, radio has always been having a top-down approach in the sense, the listeners had no choice except to listen to what was broadcast over All India Radio.

The effects of commercialism also couldn’t be underestimated. Today’s children are besieged by manipulative commercial messages day in and day out on television. Companies hire psychologists to help them target children and manipulate them. Also, in terms of programming, television shows are either American or Indian imitations of them. One of the most prominent examples of this is the phenomenon of MTV and youth culture in urban India.

But many fear that this transition will affect their culture and sooner or later radio will be nothing more than a story you can tell to your grandchildren.