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| First audio device permitting the reception of wireless voices; developed by Fessenden: |
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| Vacuum tube developed by DeForest that became the basic invention for all radio and television: |
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| In broadcast regulation, the idea that broadcasters serve as the public's trustees or fiduciaries: |
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| Broadcast spectrum space is limited, so not everyone who wants to broadcast can; those who are granted licenses must accept regulation |
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| A broadcasting station that aligns itself with a network: |
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| A broadcasting station that is owned and operated by a network: |
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| 10 to 100 watt nonprofit community radio stations with a reach of only a few miles: |
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| A radio station's particular sound or programming content: |
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| A radio station's second, or nonprimary, format: |
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| Predetermined sequence of selected records to be played by a disc jockey: |
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| Total sale of broadcast airtime: |
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| Percentage of a market's total population that is reached by a piece of broadcast programming: |
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| Relaxation of ownership and other rules for radio and television: |
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| Single ownership and management of multiple radio stations in one market: |
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| Recording of one artist's music by another: |
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| In record retailing, albums more than three years old: |
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| In record retailing, albums out for 15 months to three years: |
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| Sale of radio or television content to stations on a market-by-market basis: |
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| Home delivery of audio by cable: |
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| DMX (Digital Music Express) |
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| Direct home or automobile delivery of audio by satellite: |
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| Digital audio radio service (DARS) |
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| Land-based digital radio relying on digital compression technology to simultaneously transmit analog and one or more digital signals using existing spectrum space: |
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| Terrestrial Digital Radio |
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| Digital radio technology that uses digital compression to "shrink" digital and analog signals, allowing both to occupy the same frequency: |
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| The delivery of "radio" over the Internet directly to individual listeners: |
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| Recording and downloading of audio files stored on servers: |
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| "Radio stations" that can be accessed only over the world wide web: |
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| The simultaneous downloading and accessing(playing) of digital audio or video data: |
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| Recording based on conversion of sound into 1s and 0s logged in millisecond intervals in a computerized translation process: |
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| File compression software that permits streaming of digital audio and video data: |
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| A device that translates digital computer information into an analog form so it can be transmitted through telephone lines: |
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| Freely downloaded software: |
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| The illegal recording and sale of copyrighted material: |
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| Peer-to-peer software that permits direct Internet-based communication or collaboration between two or more personal computers while bypassing centralized servers: |
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| Sites allowing users to store all their digital music online and stream it to any computer or digital device anywhere: |
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| File sharing software that allows users to create "swarms" of data as they simultaneously download and upload "bits" of a given piece of content: |
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| Identifying and granting ownership of a given piece of expression to protect the creators' financial interest in it: |
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| watching television on our own schedules, not the programmer's: |
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| First workable device for generating electrical signals suitable for the transmission of a scene: |
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| the smallest picture element in an electronic imaging system such as a television or computer screen: |
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| First practical television camera tube, developed in 1923: |
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| Improved picture tube developed by Zworykin for RCA: |
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| Copper-clad aluminum wire encased in plastic foam insulation, covered by an aluminum outer conductor, and then sheathed in plastic: |
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| Audio and video transmitting system in which super-high-frequency signals are sent from land-based point to land-based point: |
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| In broadcasting, selling individual advertising spots on a given program to a wide variety of advertisers: |
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| Ratings technology; a special remote control with personalized buttons for each viewer in the household: |
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| Measure of viewing of a single television episode across all platforms: |
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| Total Audience Measurement Index (TAMi) |
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| Special television ratings times in February, May, July and November in which diaries are distributed to thousands of sample households in selected markets: |
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| The percentage of people listening to radio or of homes using television tuned in to a given piece of programming: |
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| Measure of viewing of commercials that appear in a specific program within 3 days of its premiere telecast: |
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| outmoded name for early cable television: |
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| Community Antenna television (CATV) |
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| Connecting multiple sets in a single location or building to a single, master antenna: |
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| Master Antenna Television (MATV) |
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| Delivery of distant television signals by cable television for the purpose of improving reception: |
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| Importation of distant signals |
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| 1962 law requiring all television sets imported into or manufactured in the United States to be equipped with both VHF and UHF receivers: |
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| Expression coined by FCC chair Newton Minow in 1961 to describe television content: |
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| Centralized production, distribution, decision-making organization that links affiliates for the purpose of delivering their viewers to advertisers: |
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| When local affiliates carry a network's program: |
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| Fee paid by a local broadcast station for the right to be a network's affiliate: |
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| Money a local cable operation pays to a broadcast station to carry a signal: |
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| Broadcast industry term for syndicated content that originally aired on a network: |
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| A sample episode of a proposed television program: |
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| Agreement between a television producer and network that guarantees that the network will order at least a pilot or pay a penalty: |
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| Original programming produced specifically for the syndicated television market: |
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| Broadcasting a syndicated television show at the same time five nights a week: |
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| Cable television channels offered to viewers for a fee above the cost of their basic subscription: |
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| Signals carried by light beams over glass fibers: |
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| Grouping of channels made available by a cable or satellite provider to subscribers at varying prices: |
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| In cable television, a second, somewhat more expensive level of subscription: |
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| A company owning several different cable television operations: |
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| Multiple system operator (MSO) |
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| Charging cable subscribers by the channel, not for tiers: |
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| Early experiments with over the air pay television: |
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| Viewers leaving cable and DBS altogether and relying on Internet-only television: |
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| Taping a show on a VCR for later viewing: |
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| Fast-forwarding through taped commercials on a VCR: |
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| Digital recording and playback player and disc, fastest growing consumer electronic product in history: |
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| Video recording device attached to a television, which gives viewers significant control over content: |
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| Digital Video Recorder (DVR) |
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| A communication channel's information-carrying capacity: |
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| A channel with broad information-carrying capacity: |
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| Delivery of digital video images and other information to subscribers' homes: |
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| Service allowing television viewers to access pay-per-view movies and other content that can be watched whenever they want: |
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| Delivering television, VOD, audio, high-speed internet access, long distance and local phone service, multiple phone lines and fax via cable: |
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| Re-creation on television news of some event that is believed to have happened or which could have happened: |
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| Outsourcing tasks to an online network of people, the crowd, for cooperative problem-solving and production: |
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| Light-emitting semiconductor manipulated under a display screen: |
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| LED (light-emitting diode) |
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| Display surface in which electric currents of varying voltage are passed through liquid crystal, altering the passage of light through that crystal: |
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| LCD (liquid crystal display) |
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| Network connecting two or more computers, usually within the same building: |
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| Video game in which all action is through the eyes of the player: |
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| First-person perspective game |
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| Video game designed to encourage beneficial physical activity: |
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| Use of video game skills and conventions to solve real-world problems: |
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| A game involving action taking place interactively on-screen: |
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| Online text-based interactive game: |
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| MUD (multiuser dimension) |
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| Companies that create video games for existing systems: |
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| Interactive online game where characters and actions are controlled by other players, not the computer; also called virtual world games: |
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| Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO) |
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| Classic games most often played in spurts and accommodated by small-screen devices: |
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| An attribute of a website; indicates its ability to hold the attention of a user: |
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| Video games in which advertising serves as in-game virtual currency: |
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| Video games produced expressly to serve as brand commercials: |
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| Primarily online games supporting an idea rather than a product: |
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Immediately after World War I, the U.S. government, concerned that the development of radio would
be delayed by patent fights and that its future would be controlled by a foreign company (British
Marconi), established a government-sanctioned monopoly to run radio, called: |
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| Radio Corporation of America (RCA) |
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| The ( ) was NOT a part of the creation of the Radio Corporation of America. |
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| Columbia Broadcasting System |
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| History’s first commercial radio license went to station ( ) in Pittsburgh in 1920. |
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The first instance of U.S. government regulation of radio was the ( ) passed soon after the passengers of the sinking ship Republic were saved
because that vessel was equipped with a radio. |
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| Wireless Ship Act of 1910 |
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After the sinking of the Titanic, the U.S. Congress passed the ( ) mandating among other things that wireless operators be licensed by the secretary of commerce
and labor. |
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Online audio file sharing that employs a person-to-person exchange of files while bypassing
centralized servers is called: |
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| Web “radio stations” that exist solely on the Web are referred to as: |
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( ) are downloaded recorded music that serves as the alerting
sound on mobile phones. |
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| ( ) refers to freely downloaded software from the Web. |
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| “Radio” delivered to people’s homes through their cable and/or satellite television services is called: |
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| “Radio” delivered directly to people’s homes and cars is called: |
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The ( ) deal is how the music business operated for decades. The
label underwrites the recording, manufacturing, distribution, and promotion of its artists’ music. |
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Some people consider ( ) the father of radio, because he was the
first person to send radio waves over long distances. |
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Some people consider ( ) the father of radio, because he was the first person
to send voices and music over the air. |
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| The primary drawback of the Edison talking machine for sound recording was: |
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only one recording
of a given sound could be made; copies were not possible |
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| German immigrant Emile Berliner developed an improved sound recording device in 1887 called the: |
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| The major advance Berliner’s gramophone brought to sound recording was that: |
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it allowed for the
creation of a master, from which copies could be made |
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Beyond the development of the gramophone, Emile Berliner advanced sound recording through his
importation of well-known music from Europe and the: |
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development of a sophisticated
microphone for recording |
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| Marconi’s interest in developing wireless transmission was: |
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| Point-to-point communication |
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Canadian inventor ( ) developed the liquid barretter in 1903, making
possible the radio reception of voices. |
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The audion tube, a vacuum tube that improved and amplified wireless signals, was developed in 1906
by: |
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Lee DeForest’s major contribution to the history of radio, other than the invention of the audion tube,
was the development and popularization of the use of radio for: |
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| The first “talking machine” or sound-recording method was developed in 1887 by: |
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In 1916, David Sarnoff sent to his superiors at American Marconi his ideas on how to make radio a
“household utility.” This now-famous memo is called the: |
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The ( ) established definitions of authority between federal and state
governments, providing for the allocation and revocation of licenses and fines for violators,
assigning frequencies for operation, and setting the hours during which a station was authorized
to broadcast. |
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The P2P software that most fuels the contemporary recording industry’s piracy fears is ( ), file-sharing software that allows anonymous users to create “swarms” of data
as they simultaneously download and upload “bits” of content from countless, untraceable servers. |
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Unregulated radio was in chaos during the 1920s, primarily because income from the sale of
receivers declined and: |
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station interference and irregular standards of operation turned off
listeners |
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| Stations that are owned and operated by a broadcast network are called: |
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When, in 1943, the government ordered NBC to divest itself of one of its networks, it sold NBC Blue
to Edward Noble, who renamed it: |
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When broadcasters asked the government to help them solve their interference and other operational
problems during the 1920s, it responded with: |
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a series of four National Radio Conferences,
involving industry experts, public officials, and government regulators |
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The four National Radio Conferences produced what important piece of federal legislation of
broadcasting? |
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The concept that broadcasters in the United States license use of the airwaves owned by the people
is called the ( ) model of regulation. |
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The trustee model of broadcast regulation is based in part on the premise that because broadcast
spectrum space is limited, and therefore not everyone who wants to broadcast can, those who are
granted licenses to serve a local area must accept regulation. This is called the philosophy of: |
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| The Radio Act of 1927 ensured that the airwaves belonged to: |
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The Radio Act of 1927 required that when a radio license was awarded, the standard of evaluation
would be: |
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| the public interest, convenience, or necessity |
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| In its earliest days, the radio industry earned income through: |
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| The first radio commercial appeared on station ( ) in 1922. |
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Stations that link themselves to a national broadcast network for the purpose of airing its programs
are called: |
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| RCA established the first national radio network in 1926, linking 24 stations and called: |
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In radio’s early days, newspapers attempted to deny stations access to their material. The two media
industries settled their differences, agreeing to time and length restrictions on radio news in the
1933: |
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| Wire that allows the sending of signals by light beams is called: |
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| The creation of programs expressly for sale to individual stations in individual markets is called: |
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| A syndicated program that runs five nights a week at the same time is said to be: |
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| Recording a television show on a home VCR or DVR for later viewing is called: |
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Digital delivery of over-the-air television signals permits ( ), sending different content
on different parts of the same signal. |
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| Recreating an event that either did or is presumed to have happened for television news cameras is: |
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Local affiliates receive compensation for airing network fare in their markets. Of late, compensation
payments: |
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| are diminishing, if not disappearing. |
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Term
As a result of the quiz show scandal, the networks changed the way they accepted sponsors’ money,
changing from single sponsorship for most programs to: |
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Term
Lucille Ball’s insistence that she, rather than CBS, own the rights to her television program set the
stage not only for reruns but also for: |
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| the creation of the syndication industry |
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The first workable device for generating electrical signals suitable for the transmission of a visual bore
its inventor’s name. It is the: |
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a British inventor, was sending moving images across the Atlantic
using a mechanical disc in the 1920s.: |
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a Russian immigrant living near Pittsburgh, developed the iconoscope
tube, the first practical television camera tube: |
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an Idaho schoolboy, moved to San Francisco, where he demonstrated his
television system in 1927: |
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The first public demonstration of television, in the form of regularly scheduled two-hour broadcasts,
was presented by ( ) at the 1939 World’s Fair. |
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| “Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television”: |
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listed the names of
151 broadcast personalities with alleged ties to the Communist Party |
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| The primary collector and reporter of television ratings is a company known as: |
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Television ratings employ an in-home device called a ( ) which records what
families are watching and who in those families are actually viewing. |
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| Four times each year more detailed measuring of television audiences takes place called ( ), employing not only mechanical counting but home diaries. |
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| The percentage of TV homes with sets that are tuned in to a given program is that show’s: |
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| A still-used derogatory name for television, the “vast wasteland,” was coined by: |
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The business of television is dominated by a few centralized production, distribution, and decisionmaking
organizations, known as the: |
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| When an affiliate airs a network’s program, it is said to ( ) the show. |
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| The current practice of networks ordering as few as two or three episodes of a program is called: |
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| The sale of programs to local stations on a market-to-market basis is: |
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New video technologies that allow viewers to “talk” to programmers and content distributors while
watching will produce ( ) television. |
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| At cable’s inception, the primary goal of most cable television operations was: |
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to improve the
reception of distant signals |
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Term
| Fast-forwarding through commercials on a recorded television show is called: |
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Term
| Sesame Street is produced by the: |
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| Children's Television Workshop |
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| If your market has 100,000 television homes and 30,000 are tuned into your program, your rating: |
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| Cable can trace it's roots to 1948 in: |
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| Early cable systems were called: |
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| community antenna television (CATV) |
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s a system in which content is sent to an antenna set up atop a building and then
distributed by wires to subscribers in that building: |
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| Broadcasters saw cable as a friend until: |
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1975, when Time, Inc., began delivering HBO movies by
satellite |
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| The “free” channels provided automatically to all subscribers are called: |
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| The multichannel service, other than cable, that has the greatest number of users is: |
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A technology classified as a “telecommunications service” operates as a ( )-- that is, it is required to carry the messages of others with no power to shape
or restrict them. |
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Groups of channels made available to subscribers at varying prices are known in the cable business
as: |
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| A cable system’s basic service would NOT include: |
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Term
| Companies that own several cable franchises are called: |
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| ( ) are sent through fiber-optic lines. |
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Term
| The capacity of the wires or signals that bring video content into people’s homes is called: |
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Multiplexing, which “squeezes” signals to permit multiple signals to be carried over one channel, is
made possible by: |
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| Cable subscribers can talk back to the system operator through: |
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Term
| With access to nearly 17 million television households, the largest U.S. DBS provider is: |
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A cable system that functions as a one-stop communications provider, supplying television, audio,
high-speed Internet access, long-distance and local phone service, multiple telephone lines, and
fax is said to offer: |
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are brief video episodes of television programs created specifically for mobile
screens: |
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| refers to granting equal carriage over phone and cable lines to all Web sites: |
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| ( ) is another name for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. |
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| ( )% of all gamers are females. |
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| Web games containing non-commercial, persuasive messages |
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In 1962, ( ) of the Rand Corporation proposed a packet-switching system that would
allow the military to maintain command over its missiles and planes in the event of a nuclear
attack. It is the basis of what we know today as the Internet. |
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Term
| Computers that link individual personal computer users to the Internet are called: |
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The development of the ( ) -----with its small size, absence of heat, and low cost—
made personal computers possible. |
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| The Apple II personal computer was developed by: |
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| STEVE JOBS AND STEPHEN WOZNIAK |
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The “network of networks,” consisting of LANs (Local Area Networks—networks connecting two or
more computers, usually within the same building) and WANs (Wide Area Networks—networks
that connect several LANs in different locations), is called the: |
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| Websites that function as online communities of users are called: |
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A ( )s a personal Web journal that comments on the news and provides links to stories that back
up the commentary with evidence. |
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| The most well known and arguably the most effective ( ) Web site is MoveOn.org. |
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The availability of trustworthy ( ) --coding and decoding—technologies that make online
use of credit and bank card numbers, addresses, social security numbers, and other sensitive
information safer for both seller and buyer has fueled interest in the Internet as a place to do
business. |
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| Entertainment Software Ratings Board |
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| The fastest growing game demographic is: |
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Term
| The most heavily played upon game console in the U.S. is: |
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Definition
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Term
| dominates the hand-held game device business: |
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Definition
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Term
| Wii was introduced in the 2000s specifically to attract: |
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| Non-traditional game players |
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Definition
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| Computer Space, released in 1971, was designed by: |
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| Atari was incorporated by: |
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| Spacewar, the first interactive computer game, was designed by: |
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| Harry Williams’ game innovations were electronic scoring and: |
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was the first video game to win the MTV Best Videogame Sound Track
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| The first home video game system, Odyssey, was marketed by Magnavox in: |
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| A video game designed to encourage strenuous physical activity is a(n): |
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Classic games most often played in spurts that have become a staple on small screen devices such
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Games are particularly attractive to advertisers because they are ( ), that is, players stay with
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| The most-purchased types of console game are: |
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| action and family entertainment |
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| The most-purchased type of personal computer game is: |
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| IN an MMO like Second Life, the actual world is often referred to as: |
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Games that offer in-game virtual currency for various activities or sometimes for watching a
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| patented the first interactive video game: |
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Introduced in 1986, ( ) was the first game to offer open structure play, that is, play
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According to ad industry research, approximately ( )% of adults play games outside the home on
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| Brands that have become games themselves are referred to as: |
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| In 1977, Mattell brought true electronic games to hand-held devices with: |
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Missile Attack, Auto Race,
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