Saving broadcasting's past for the future -- archivists are working to capture not just tapes of TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together
- Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
How will we preserve technologies so deeply embedded in daily life? BrAt_PiKaChU/Istock via Getty ImagesWe’ve lived with broadcasting for more than a century. Starting with radio in the 1920s, then television in the 1950s, Americans by the millions began purchasing boxes designed to receive electromagnetic signals transmitted from nearby...
