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| show series that have appeared first on networks and are being rerun by local or cable stations |
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| cheap, easy to produce programs that are created to debut as syndicated programs, sold to individual TV stations to fill time blocks |
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| Percentage of parents who use v chip |
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| Licensee terms for tv and radio stations |
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| Number of states that permit cameras in courtrooms |
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| Radios most important time of day |
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| 8 to 10 am (morning drive) |
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| Number of successful TV shows each year |
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| Largest local TV market (and number) |
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| Smallest local TV market (and number) |
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| Household rating of number one show in 1956 (and name of show) |
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| Household rating of number one show in 2010 (and name of show) |
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| Percentage of young people (18 to 29) naming the internet as the main source of election news in 2008 |
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| Number of new program ideas pitched to TV networks each year |
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| Number of household with TV |
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| a type of invasion of privacy in which media coverage creates the wrong impression of a person |
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| to act in a way that is best for you |
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| a person should act in a way that produces the greatest possible ratio of good over evil |
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| Teleological (ethical) theory |
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| measures the rightness or wrongness of an action based on consequences (from greek teleos, which means an end or result) |
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| Deontological (ethical) theory |
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| actions based on ones own moral obligations (from greek deon, or duty) |
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| Act only on those principles that you would want to become universal law (a type of deontological theory) |
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| Required broadcast stations to present balanced coverage of topics of public concern (currently defunct policy of the FCC) |
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| Children's TV act of 1990 |
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| made TV stations dedicate time to serve the informational and educational needs of children |
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| Section 326 of the Communications Act |
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| The FCC doesn't have the right or power to control radio programming |
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| used in radio, to target a specific audience for a few hours then changing the format to appeal to another group (ex. Morning drive) |
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| short (5 to 10 seconds) selections of music known as hooks are played over the phone and listeners are asked to rate the song |
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| A schedule of radio programming broken down by the hour (known as 3 things) |
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| Format Wheel, Hot Clock, Sound Hour |
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| personality traits that breaks the audience down into different segments |
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| sample episode of proposed TV show |
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| gifts and gratuities paid to DJs to give certain songs more air time (illegal method to advertise music used during the late 50's) |
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| movement of audience from one program to the next (keeps audiences attention, technique used to keep an audience on one station) |
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| 3 things that contributed to the expansion of TV journalism in the 60's (*possible bonus question within) |
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Civil Rights Movement
Apollo Moon Landing
Vietnam War
(JFK assassination was too early in the 60's not enough people had televisions to consider this monumental)
(*Woodstock was a giant rock concert that occurred in 1969, possible bonus question) |
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| speech made in 1961 by FCC chairman Newton Minow "When TV is good, nothing is better. but when TV is bad, nothing is worse" |
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| What year did TV news turn to color |
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| arrangement by which a TV stations news department shares its news casts with other local TV stations |
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| created the radio station KFKB in the early 1920's and promoted his rejuvenation operation which involved the grafting or injection of material from the sexual organs of male goats |
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| Section 315 of the comm act of 1934 |
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| political candidates get equal time on TV or radio stations |
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| How often must TV stations apply for renewal |
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| 24/7 pre recorded programming on radio that requires no talent |
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| pre recording of a DJ for the program allowing the DJ to not be in studio while on the air |
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| between 10pm and 6am on radio which allows profanity on some radio stations |
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| Periods when research companies collect ratings and viewer information in local television market |
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| How many sweeps occur annually and what months |
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| Nielson ratings system uses this to determine what TV shows are being watched |
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| Arbitron uses this to determine what radio stations are listened to |
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| Portable People Meter, a device that is carried by an individual to measure both the radio listening and the TV viewing of that individual |
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| Prime Time Access Rule, limits TV networks to 3 hours of programming during prime time |
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| Calls placed at different times of the day asking respondents to recall the programs they had listened to (Limited by human memory) |
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| Began in 1979 and provides gavel to gavel coverage of congressional hearings, political party conventions, and other public affairs programming |
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