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An Intimate Medium
Radio is an intimate medium. The broadcaster must imagine as if the listeners are 
sitting by his side, shoulder to shoulder. To the listeners, it sounds as if the broadcaster is 
speaking from within the sound box, the radio set or the transistor. It is as if the broadcasts 
and the listeners are made for each other, is if the broadcaster is broadcasting for each listener 
individually.
A Mass Medium
It is a much cheaper medium of mass communication. Hence, it is very relevant to 
developing countries like India. A radio set or a transistor is far cheaper than a TV set. It 
costs much less to set up a radio station as compared to a TV station; not only the capital cost 
but recurring expenses to run a radio service are less. A large number of people can afford a 
radio set but not a TV set.
Simple language and reach of illiterates
A very large number of people an illiterate or semi-literate in India and other 
developing countries, with its language being simple, live and direct. It can reach illiterate 
and semi literate people.
Radio is a mobile medium
You can have it at home, take if to the picnic resort, listen to if while driving, have if 
on land or under the sea, in public or in private. So, it is a most convenient medium for 
anybody. It can accompany you and entertain you anywhere: It can be, and is, a never - 
failing companion.
Radio is medium of immediacy
It can report the events almost instantly, as they are happening. So it is a medium of 
the "here and now" even for TV, it is more difficult to take the camera immediately to events 
as they are happening. It is the radio which can be the first to repast the happenings.
Radio is a much cheaper and quicker medium than television for production of 
programmes. For example, it requires a performer and producer who may also be recordist 
and an effects man. As a against this, a TV production (teleproduction) would require a 
costumes man, a make-up man, two or more cameras and cameramen, a dolleyman who 
assists the cameraman, in moving the cameras, a scene designer, a carpenter, several lights 
and lightmen, several monitoring sets engineers, a producer, performer etc.
Since the cost and time required to produce a programme are much less, radio can 
produce a wide variety of programmes. It can also afford to experiment with new and 
innovative programmes reception for a radio broadcast is much more informal than the 
psychology of reception for a stage performance or a show.
The radio listener will not accept any untruth in a radio performance. He does not see 
any glamour personality to be impressed. His faculties are intact and he is not infected by the 
reactions of many people sitting in an auditorium.

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