Few people nowadays remember the name of the person who, through his enthusiasm, opened a new page in the history of radio. From 1912 to 1917, in the town of San Jose (California), American radio amateur Charles David Harold hosted regular music and speech programs with the help of an amateur radio transmitter, designed for a small audience of radio enthusiasts. It was eight years before the birth of official radio broadcasting.
Harold became the originator of a new profession - the profession of radio host that, many years after, would gain huge popularity and transform to the profession of an unseen person who has empire over the minds of men.
After waking up, more than two thirds of the planet's population switch on their favorite radio station, and a vivacious voice of a DJ accompanies people's morning procedure, then follows people to their cars on their way to their jobs, then again greets them in their offices. And in the evening, it's again with them on their way home.
Who are they, those invisible people? How has the profession of radio host been transformed? Where have all newscasters gone? And how many people are daily broadcasted to our dynamics and headphones?
The narration is interchanged with the fashionable on air genre - we'll spend one day inside a popular Russian radio station and hear professional secrets and latrine rumors from radio hosts. |
