Radio!

I called my dad to ask him how the radio affected his life. My father will be turning fifty four in April. He said that even thought he was raised with the introduction of Television. He said radio was still a big thing when he was young. He said when he lived in the city he was born in his parents used to listen to the soap operas on the radio and he and his four siblings would sit around the radio, and play with their cars and dolls while listening to it. When he moved to the city where he lives in now he said soap operas on the radio stopped playing and were gradually substituted with black and white soap operas in the TV. Nor the TV or the radio had good children’s show, so he wouldn’t pay attention to and of them, my grandparents would still listen to a lot of music and news on the radio and now they were watching soap opera on Television. He said although the TV was starting to get big radio kept its strength especially with soccer games (soccer is a huge sport in Brazil and it brings everyone together). He said when it was the time for world cups the radio was the only way they could know what was happening in the game. It was a big party around the radio; everybody would come together and sit around it waiting for the narration of the exciting game to start. He said he wouldn’t pay much attention to the commercials, but he remembers the dark and velvety voices that would announce the shows or the products being sold in a commercial.


Television took control of the city. Everybody had a TV and radio started to make its way to the cars. He said in grandpa’s farm there was no way to get television, so my grandfather had this giant radio. About fourteen inches long and with an antenna that was about 4.9 feet long. He said when they went to the farm radio came back to being the entertainer. He said my grandfather would walk around carrying this huge thing and he was really proud of this master piece of technology. The radio was called Transglobe, and it was made by Philco.




It seems like another reality to think of people listening to soap operas and news, when today everything is on TV. I still listen to the radio, I like the music, and how every station has their own musical theme that they carry on. Now, as soon as the commercials start, I am changing to a different station. Radio is still big and it could get bigger, people working in these industries are smart. It really doesn’t matter how far technology goes, everyone will always love the feeling of getting into your car and tuning the radio to your favorite station and listening to music you like driving some place else.