1. KEY CONCEPT: Although there are so many benefits to online music sharing, there are also draw backs. Illegal music sharing is very prominent in the world, where in 2008 the ratio was 20:1. The reason this is really bad is because, everyone does it and it is impossible to catch everyone who is doing it and there will always be way to do it.

2. KEY TERM: Compact discs- digitally recorded music onto a small disc which means, a smaller, higher quality, more convenient way for artists to get their music to the public.

3. FIVE FACTS:

1. Frank Sinatra was categorized in 1943 s "the glorification of ignorance and musical illiteracy."
2. Elvis pushed the limits of the public in the 1950's with all of the sexuality surrounding him because religious parents of teens were upset how he was "influencing" their children.

3. The perception of rock and roll was looked at as "juvenile delinquency" in the 1950's.

4. Until 1964, no British artists appeared on the US top 10 charts until the Beatles.

5 By the late 1970's, the rock slogan about the music of the previous decade was "disco sucks."

4. PERSONAL STORY: At home i work for a DJ company, so I love music. With my company we always get CD's with music that has not come out yet, so for me, when i finally hear it on the radio i always get excited because i have known it for however long. Oppositely, i do also listen to the radio to hear what music is popular now. We mainly DJ dances, sweet 16's, grad parties, weddings, so by listening to the top 100 can show me music that is popular that we dont have and can download electronically so we can have it.

5. A SINGLE QUESTION: Is it possible that one day, no artists will put out hard copies, CD's, of their music?

Chapter 4

1. KEY CONCEPT: The idea of the "economic shift" is very prominent in the radio business; for example, Clear Channel owns over 1200 radio stations, s opposed to just one to be in control over.

2. KEY TERM: Wireless telegraphy- one of the the first forms of point to point communication- sends voice and sound transmissions to many form of mass communications, now known as broadcasting.

3. FIVE FACTS:

1. An Audion was is a vacuum tube that detects radio waves and amplifies them.

2. Narrowcasting, as opposed to broadcasting, is person to person communication

3. By 1925, 5,5 million radio sets were used n America where radio officially became a mass medium.

4. A network allows stations to control program costs and avoid duplication

5. The Federal communications act was set in place in 1934.

4. PERSONAL STORY: I love the radio. Although talk radio is not very popular anymore, there is one channel that i can actually stand listening too. I live in New Jersey, so we listen to alot of New york city radio. One of these stations is Z100, which is pretty much all popular music, but during the week days from 6am to 11am there is a talk radio program calls "Elvis Duran and the morning show." I love it because they talk about interesting topics and they are just so funny. For litterally all four years of highschool i would listen to them every morning while i got ready for school.

5. A SINGLE QUESTION: Eventually will talk radio officially not be broadcasted anymore?or you.