Lakewood High School - Alpha Omega Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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T8l8ViSi0ll in Tampa Bay comes to us through the air and over the cable. Those of us with lowly antennaes may choose from the local network affiliates ABC-Ch. lll, NBC-Ch. 8, CBS-Ch. 13, PBS-Ch. 3, and the independent Ch. 44, Sh. 22, and Ch. 28. The more af- fluent ones among us with cable TV add suporstations, llBll, Showtime, and more to the broadcast list. Radill gained popularity daily among the high school crowd. WYllF 195 Fldl, WUXM t98 llockl, WCKX 196 Kicksl, WllXB, lflSllZ. WHBO, and WTMP were among the most heavily tuned in stations. Few, if any, of us spent the day without tunes. Movies filled our weekend evenings and vacation days. We enioyod Raiders of the Lost Ark , Stripes , Heavy Metal . Superman II , nd For Your Eyes Only among others. llecords retained their popularity talthough the record industry was in a slumpl. Journey, Styx, lllck James, and others played background music for our parties and rattled the windows in our cars. Newspapers covered the events of the year. 0ur own Centurion displayed its award winning ways on the school front and the St. Pete Times and Evening Independent covered the rest. ., ,g Lf, f . 7 9 0 W ,Q Nl-AU' Nj mimi it LL intra, Qyt' Iran Ulugh. If 4 :,f:'fna9.a... Q 1 . fi-A, -fy'-I-Tl Europniayr' 53, av . 1 -fl' 5 ' - 'ag lg f ' li Ufld8l'Sl3IldiIIQ such a pervasive influence as the media becomes more important - each day for all of us. The future will bring us a world full of satellite TV, T00 channel cable systems, a resurgent radio industry, electronic newspapers and magazines, two-way homo f I , ll, 4 - ,I I I A computer links, video tape and discs, 70mm movies and morel We need to understand the entire spectrum of mass media advertising, from the blatant to 'Q 8 8 the subliminal. We need to understand how mass media ollerings affect our lifestyles and W 4- 1 habits. We need to learn and grow with our media - to become a part of the media and its T , .0 message. flow more than ever we need to accept the importance of the media in our lives 3 fieai ,eff-514 one understand n.

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GDAMS li? .. ,,,, ., .., 1 U. -1 ' N 'A f P vi- The favorite motion pictures shown on television were Rocky and laws. In the soap opera department General Hospital won by a scalpel.