RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

Notes % 1 ) Of course, attempting to pređict the future is a notoriously risky undertaking . To give just one example, authors of the report on the future of English radio in Canada (The English Radio . . . , 1983) believe that in the information society , as people gain control of their leisure time , they will be motivated to "rnake every second count," or in other words to use it so as to "enrich one's life , materially and/or spiritually" - and use the media accordingly. Sepstrup ( 1987), on the other hand, believes that the majority of the population will make passive use of communication technology , becoming submerged in the great influx of television fare , and in the process losing out to the minority capable of mastering information technology and thereby or rising to positions of importance . 2) One example could be Radio 2UE in Sydney , Australia , which is run on Dynatech NewStar . It has 1 1 stanđ-alone terminals, three printers, three wire services, two generic dial-ins, two 100-megabyte disk storage drivers , as well as two-way links with sister stations in Melbourne and Canberra . The system's communication speed is 19 000 baud . Three of the terminals are integrated within telephone -booth sized news production suites , and there is a terminal in the news reader's booth . Other terminals are allocated to specialist journalists . 3 ) In the mid-19705, it was estimated in the US that at least a seventh of all FM stations were substantially automated . The way this works has been described as follows ; "With a computer and a package of sophisticated eguipment, a station can remain on the air indef initely without human participation . Automateđ stations can easily broadcast music , with a computer switching to recorded commercials at appropriate times . Prerecorded comments from disc јоскеуз can be interspersed and the computer can be programmed to give the correct time . It can pick up network news services and other Mive' feeds . (A typical package at an automated station mlght include a computer with тетогу; four or тоге open-reel tape recorđers for music; two ог more tape-cartndge players for commercials - jingles and spot announcements - and anđ mterface with other audio sources for news , network feeds and so on) ... Some statlons use the automateđ eguipment to play music ~