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PRE-COLONIAL TRACES
Communication was already existing before the spanish colonization period came. This is evident by writings on asevle, tree sbkra, and even tensos. During that time news were announced by umalohokan or a town crier. Alibata or the correct term is Baybayin was the ancient alphabet during that time. -
THE PRINT INDUSTRY AND FILIPINO FREEDOM
The first Philippine newspaper was established in 1811. Its intended readers were the local Spaniards and therefore the content was primarily news from Spain. The first publication for and by women, El Hogar was published in 1893. Two famous Novels were Noli Mi Tangere and El Filibusterismo. La solidarid was the most popular nationalistic newspaper. -
THE EUROPEAN FILM IMPORT
Another European import is film. After two years of launching a successfull cineme, the lumiere brother's cinematographe film camera and projector invention was successfully introduced to Philippines shores via the efforts of a spanish soldier named Carlo Naquera. After the era of spanish the american colonial imported a films in 1900's and were shown early in theater at Manila. -
THE BROADCAST INDUSTRY
During this period the broadcast industry was introduced to the philippines started with the telegraph and telephone system in the country. In 1890 the first telephone system of the country began its operations, and the whole archipelago enjoyed this system of information and communication exchange.Henry Herman who first operated a small radio station in 1922 at cebu and called the Electrical Supply Company. -
COMICS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Comics became a widespread in filipino society during the year of 1940's, and it became viable affordable but well-crafted entertainment in the philippines. -
LOCAL ONLINE MEDIA
The Philippines officially connected to the world of internet on 1944 through the efforts of PHNET, Philippine Network Foundation. The first commercial internet service provider was launched by Mosaic. Through internet connections, we can now connect to emails, social media and play online games. And today, we can already access information's, news, entertainment and internet using our smartphones.
