RADIO THEATER
Radio theater/ radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, (radio
theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic
performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or
CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound
effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story. “It is auditory
in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the
psychological dimension. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a
decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading
international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the
1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries,
has never regained large audiences.
However, recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums, as well as several online sites such as Internet Archive. The Golden Age of Radio (sometimes referred to as old-time radio) refers to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio as the primary home entertainment medium in the 1950s. During this period, when radio was dominant and filled with a variety of formats and genres, people regularly tuned in to their favorite radio programs.
However, recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums, as well as several online sites such as Internet Archive. The Golden Age of Radio (sometimes referred to as old-time radio) refers to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio as the primary home entertainment medium in the 1950s. During this period, when radio was dominant and filled with a variety of formats and genres, people regularly tuned in to their favorite radio programs.
As of 2011, radio drama has a minimal presence on
terrestrial radio in the United States. Much of American radio drama is
restricted to rebroadcasts or podcasts of programs from previous decades.
However, other nations still have thriving traditions of radio drama. [1]
The Twilight Zone aired on the CBS television network from
1959 to 1964. It set a new standard of excellence, with scripts by creator Rod
Serling and outstanding writers Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, George
Clayton Johnson, Jerry Sohl, Earl Hamner, Jr., Reginald Rose and Ray Bradbury.
The show mixed science fiction, fantasy, horror, suspense
and occasional humor in a unique blend never before seen on television. Since
then it has been rebroadcast continuously, second only to I Love Lucy as the
longest-running series in TV syndication history. The title itself has entered
the language as a term for something that is easy to recognize but impossible
to define, a peculiar moment when the landscape of our lives takes an
unmistakable detour into the unknown.[2]
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