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... began on a higher ground: religion. Before you haul me off to a padded room, let's define "infomercial."An infomercial is an advertisement for a product or service that has been expanded with information, entertainment, or both to retain the attention of the audience. In the old days, itinerant preachers would pass the basket after preaching a message that was interspersed with hymn-singing. When radio, and later television, arrived on the scene, preachers began purchasing half-hour or larger blocks of air time to carry their message to a larger audience, replacing the traditional basket with a plea for donations. Profitable? You bet! Many such ministries built huge cathedrals, multi-media production centers, and even their own television stations from the revenues generated by "religious" infomercials. In the meantime ... people marketing products and services just rambled along as usual, purchasing 30- and 60-second time slots for their commercials. For a long time this worked well enough. With only three networks and a limited number of television stations (four networks for radio), only so much advertising time was available. Expensive spot commercials held sway during prime-time hours, and the religious broadcasters helped to fill the late-night and Sunday-morning voids. Catalysts Of Change: FM & Cable For decades, these limitations remained unchanged. Cable was a futuristic daydream, and radios capable of receiving FM stations were limited. Then, almost simultaneously, FM became the king of radio, and cable catapulted television into a new age. The popularization of FM radio more than doubled available commercial broadcast frequencies, and cable brought a 20-fold increase ...

... began on a higher ground: religion. Before you haul me off to a padded room, let's define "infomercial."An infomercial is an advertisement for a product or service that has been expanded with information, entertainment, or both to retain the attention of the audience. In the old days, itinerant preachers would pass the basket after preaching a message that was interspersed with hymn-singing. When radio, and later television, arrived on the scene, preachers began purchasing half-hour or larger blocks of air time to carry their message to a larger audience, replacing the traditional basket with a plea for donations. Profitable? You bet! Many such ministries built huge cathedrals, multi-media production centers, and even their own television stations from the revenues generated by "religious" infomercials. In the meantime ... people marketing products and services just rambled along as usual, purchasing 30- and 60-second time slots for their commercials. For a long time this worked well enough. With only three networks and a limited number of television stations (four networks for radio), only so much advertising time was available. Expensive spot commercials held sway during prime-time hours, and the religious broadcasters helped to fill the late-night and Sunday-morning voids. Catalysts Of Change: FM & Cable For decades, these limitations remained unchanged. Cable was a futuristic daydream, and radios capable of receiving FM stations were limited. Then, almost simultaneously, FM became the king of radio, and cable catapulted television into a new age. The popularization of FM radio more than doubled available commercial broadcast frequencies, and cable brought a 20-fold increase ...

... began on a higher ground: religion. Before you haul me off to a padded room, let's define "infomercial."An infomercial is an advertisement for a product or service that has been expanded with information, entertainment, or both to retain the attention of the audience. In the old days, itinerant preachers would pass the basket after preaching a message that was interspersed with hymn-singing. When radio, and later television, arrived on the scene, preachers began purchasing half-hour or larger blocks of air time to carry their message to a larger audience, replacing the traditional basket with a plea for donations. Profitable? You bet! Many such ministries built huge cathedrals, multi-media production centers, and even their own television stations from the revenues generated by "religious" infomercials. In the meantime ... people marketing products and services just rambled along as usual, purchasing 30- and 60-second time slots for their commercials. For a long time this worked well enough. With only three networks and a limited number of television stations (four networks for radio), only so much advertising time was available. Expensive spot commercials held sway during prime-time hours, and the religious broadcasters helped to fill the late-night and Sunday-morning voids. Catalysts Of Change: FM & Cable For decades, these limitations remained unchanged. Cable was a futuristic daydream, and radios capable of receiving FM stations were limited. Then, almost simultaneously, FM became the king of radio, and cable catapulted television into a new age. The popularization of FM radio more than doubled available commercial broadcast frequencies, and cable brought a 20-fold increase ...

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... ? An easily accessible company contact? A Web site can be a great way to get your message out to reporters and editors in the broadcast and print media. It can, that is, if your message is articulate and additional information easy to get. After all, journalists should be counted among your customers and prospects. Their mention of your company or product in one publication or television or radio program is like a customer telling thousands of friends. You need to understand that the media is not a monolith. Publications and broadcast outlets look for different angles on stories. Media outlets from cable television to magazines continually create niche publications and programs for specific audiences. Whatever their differences, reporters and editors do share things in common. Time, for example-or rather, the lack of it. ... has a Web site? Great! Colorful graphics that seem to jump off the screen? Terrific! And the content? Uh-oh. Does your Web site feature your company profile? Statistics on your industry? New product information and the best use for those products? An easily accessible company contact? A Web site can be a great way to get your message out to reporters and editors in the broadcast and print media. It can, that is, if your message is articulate and additional information easy to get. After all, journalists should be counted among your customers and prospects. Their mention of your company or product in one publication or television or radio program is like a customer telling thousands of friends. You need to understand that the media is not a monolith. Publications and broadcast ...

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... All Back High-Tech Emergency Notification Systems 4/30/2013 10:36:34 PM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Douglas Henderson This content has not been rated yet. HIGH-TECH EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS by Doug Henderson The disastrous Japanese earthquake/tsunami of March 11 drowned thousands of people – but the toll would have been far higher without the nation ‘comprehensive emergency notification system. Thanks to radio broadcasts, text messages, sirens, firemen's door-to-door calls, and just plain instinct honed by years of disaster drills at school, people from towns and villages along the coast - Japan's population is concentrated in an often narrow coastal plain – saved themselves by fleeing immediately fled to higher ground. This article will review some key factors to consider when selecting a system. I will also note ... limitations of these systems – some of the points that the system vendors often don't highlight. Limitations of Low-Tech Systems Low-tech emergency notification systems, such as alarms, sirens, intercom systems, telephone calling trees, etc. all have serious limitations. Although calling trees are valuable for mass communications, they're slow, subject to message error, and even complete breakdown from "missing links" or the failure of general voice communication systems. Alarms and sirens (used to communicate a facility evacuation or an emergency lockdown) are fast and can alert everyone who's in a dangerous area; however, they're poor in providing detailed information and ineffective outside of their audible range. Intercom systems are reasonably fast and can communicate detailed information, but are generally limited when providing information to people in multiple buildings. ...

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