Rabe, Jerick R.

BACOM 1A

1). Expound of this idea: Radio's role during the war was an ideological battleground.

As the Second World War comes to the Philippines, different kinds of radio came into the
Philippines. With the Americans’ way of radio broadcasting, the Filipinos instilled its ways
disabling them from accepting the program that the Japanese colonizers forced us as they came
to light. And with this, radio broadcasting became an actual ideological battleground as Elizabeth
L. Enriquez described on her book “Appropriation of Colonial Broadcasting: A History of Early
Radio in the Philippines, 1922-1946”. The radio was used by the two colonizers to win the
hearts and minds of Filipinos at the time, but since it was the Americans who were first to embed
us a culture of their radio, it is clear that they strongly have the upper hand with the Japanese
colonizers.

2). Why was post war radio described as The Golden Years of Philippine Radio?

According to Philippine Press History, it was in the 1950’s when the Radio, Television,
and Cinema had its first Golden Years as many films, TV networks, and radio stations came into
light. More than 20 stations were present after the war and were owned by different families and
different companies. During this days, it can really be said that it was a Golden Years for radio,
as they have all the freedom to speak of what is happening around without being oppressed by
any power. But this days ended when the media was oppressed in the hands of the Marcos
regime.

3). What is the difference between privately owned broadcast network and public
broadcasting system?

From the term itself, privately owned broadcast network and public broadcasting system
differs in some ways. They are just the same in the way of broadcasting, but the difference is that
the private broadcast networks are commercial networks, which means that their finances are
their problem and they can get revenues from advertisements. Unlike the public broadcasting
system, it is fueled by the public, which means that it is commonly directed by the government.
To sum up, privately owned networks depends on advertisements to settle their finances and the
public networks are dependent by us, the public.