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In these few centuries, the broadcasting industries have a few significant transformations. The broadcasting radio industry expanded rapidly in 1920s until the born of television service in 1936. However, the born of broadcasting television service did not influence broadcasting radio industry very much. In fact, the real challenger of broadcasting industries is Internet, which was growth rapidly in these two decades. This essay is mainly divided into two main sections, firstly it will discuss the main reasons that explaining the rapid growth of Internet in terms of the technology circumstances. Then the essay will argue whether the growth of internet will cause the death of broadcast media. Since ¡¥the internet is a vast global interconnection of some 100,000 computer networks around the world all of which use a common set of technical protocols (called Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocols of TCP/IP) in routing data across those networks¡¦ (Pavilk. J, 1998, pp29), the ubiquity of personal computers can be considered as one of the reasons in explaining the rapid growth of the Internet. The first personal computer was available on the market on 9 September 1975 from IBM, which cost from US$8975 to US$19,975 accord