Tag: visual culture

Today on P S Dot Com: a fairly comprehensive survey of television station ID graphics circa 1951.  Widespread full-time telecasting did not take place in the US until 1948, so you are seeing the face of a relatively new industry here.   I realize that this post has little to do with sound, but television, as it is broadcast,  is at least 50% sonic; those of us who work in television are all-too-aware that we design programming for a distracted audience; I.E., programs and adverts are designed to deliver messages to audiences that can hear the set without necessarily seeing the screen.   The importance of television broadcasts in creating the sound-environment of the twentieth century is immense.  Anyway, here’s a trip back to the earliest days of mass-TV broadcasting in the US, and a fascinating look at how the early TV broadcasters saw themselves, as-it-were.  If anyone has a link to an online archive of the sounds that accompanied graphics such as these, please do let us know.

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