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Daily Bread for 10.30.23: War of the Worlds 1938 Radio Broadcast

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 Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 37. Sunrise is 7:27 and sunset 5:49 for 10h 22m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 96.7% of its visible disk illuminated.

  On this day in 1938, Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing a panic in some of the audience in the United States.

Mercury Theatre’s War of the Worlds broadcast: 

Mars Perseverance rover watches Ingenuity helicopter zoom above Red Planet in real time: 

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Radio Interview on UW-Whitewater’s Plans for the Fall

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Yesterday, UW-Whitewater’s Chancellor, Dr. Dwight Watson, and Communications Director, Jeff Angileri, gave a radio interview with WCLO about their plans for a fall semester during a pandemic. The interview is available online as an audio file. A few remarks: A College Town. There’s a difference between a town with a college and a college town,…

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Brookings on ‘7 trends in old and new media’

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The liberal-leaning Brookings Institution, in a paper from Elaine Kamarck and Ashley Gabriele, offers insight into 7 trends in old and new media. Their seven observations are solid, and broadly similar to the assessments of Clay Shirky, in Last call: the end of the printed newspaper. Brookings summarizes their work: The following are seven essential truths about the news today…

Press, Radio, Television

Some Assets Can Only Be Sold Once

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A person with an apple orchard can – and expects – to sell apples for more than one season.  In fact, his success almost certainly depends on more than one year’s crop.  For media companies selling radio or television stations, or spinning print from broadcast assets, it’s a one-time transaction.  When the broadcast properties are…