How has mass media technology changed the way audiences are entertained?

Through out the years mass media technology has changed the way audiences are entertained. Technology is ever changing and the systems and devices used to entertain mass audiences have changed tremendously. Before the twentieth century one of the main forms of entertainments were books, plays, poems, story telling, etc. So essentially anything that was either live or could be read. But in the twentieth century there was a wave of testing new ways that people could be entertained especially through mass audiences. The development of the radio was so detrimental to how audiences are entertained. For most of the early 1900s people were entertained by the radio. The radio provided news, sports, music, and even “spoken shows” to be transmitted to a mass audience. With this, technology paved the way for other common mass media technology that is around today, particularly the television. The radio and how it worked helped inventors come up with the idea of movement radio; however it was not until around the mid 1900s that the television we think of today was actually a fully functioning invention. This invention allowed people to watch movies, shows, sports, and news in the comfort of their own household rather than going to a movie theater. Mass media has advanced further with the creation of the Internet, which essentially allows you to watch movies, shows, sports, news, but also to obtain information, play games, communicate with other people. Looking back the way audiences are entertained has changed significantly, but for the better in some respects.