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| Radio is a special medium in that it is personal, varied (news, entertainment, etc), and everywhere |
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| What was an important invention that precursored the radio? (It was invented by Samuel Morse) |
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| How did Hertz contribute to the invention of the radio? |
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| He proved the existance of radio waves, movement of electricity through the air. |
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| What was occuring at the same time the radio was being invented? (Similar to the digital revolution) |
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| What is an electromagnetic spectrum? |
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| Range of freuencies that can be used for transmitting radio waves with electricity. |
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| What combined the ideas of Edison, Hertz, and Morse to form the components of the radio? |
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| Telegraph code of dots and dashes invented by Samuel Morse |
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| What was Sarnoff's vision? |
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| Using technology to instantaneously reach a wide audience |
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| Who was it that added "voice" to radio by using a high frequency generator? |
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| What were the weireless telegraphy? |
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| name for early radio transmission, before human voices could be carried on soundwaves |
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| What did De Forest invent and why was it so important? |
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| De Forest invented the first vacuum tube (amplified radio signals); the predecessor of the modern electronics |
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| A tube invented by Lee De Forest that picked up and amplified radio signals (AKA vacuum tube) |
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| Name five people who made a significant contribution to radio and how they contributed |
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Hertz - Radio waves
Marconi - Components of the radio
De Forest - vacuum tube (amplify waves)
Sarnoff - Broadcasting
Fessenden - Human voice on sound waves |
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| How did WWI affect the radio? |
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| Radio used for strictly military purposes; Military trained 10,000 people to use the new technology |
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| What was the Navy's America-first policy that was made into a law? |
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| No foreign countries could own more than 25% of an American Broadcasting |
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| First amateur radio enthusiasts that was the first to become a commercial broadcaster |
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| Early plan for radio revenue; access to radio would cost a certain amount of cash |
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| Regualr unsponsored broadcast shows designed to maintain audience contact until advertising can be solf for that time |
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| Group of interconnected broadcast stations that share programming; also the parent company that supplies that programming |
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| Owned and Operated Stats (O&O) |
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| Possessed by and ran by the network; usually carry everything the network has |
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| Local station that has a contractual relationship to air a network's programming |
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| What was the first Network? |
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| AT&T - connected NY to Boston |
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| How did radio networks affect the nation? |
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| It unified the country culturally |
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| What was the first national radio networks? |
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| National Broadcasting Company (NBC) by RCA |
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| What was the story behind William Paley and CBS? |
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| Paley bought CBS when it was struggling. Offered better deals to local stations than NBC; stole talents from NBC with more lucrative contracts; quickly became the leader of radio news |
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| What was the Mutual Broadcasting System? |
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| A coalition of independent stations-- got merged in 1998 |
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| Where did American Broadcasting Network (ABC) come from? |
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| RCA was forced to sell one of their broadcasting system since the government feared that it had too much influence. The resulting sale formed ABC. |
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| What has radio contributed towards TV programming? |
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| IT has created the genre that we're familiar with (drama, comedies, operas, game shows, talk shows, etc) |
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| What was the Radio Act of 1912 and what event heavily influenced passing the law? |
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| Require ships at sea to leave their radios on for 24 hours a day, and all radio transmitter require federal licensing. Titanic helped pass the act. |
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| What was spectrum scarcity? |
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| There were more people who wanted to broadcast than there were enough frequencies to contain them |
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| What was the radio act of 1927? |
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| Established the Federal Radio Commision (FRC); regulated the frequency each radio station could use; required that the broadcasters operated int he general interest of the people |
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| What was the communications Act of 1934? |
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FRC -> FCC;
Federal Communication Commission;
Power to regulate all means of interstate telephone/telegraph/radio communication |
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| Broadcast station indentifications (Assigned by the FCC) |
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| Amplitude modulation 0 Radio tranmissions created by changing the power of the carrier waves |
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| Frequency modulation; transimission by changing the speed at which radio waves are generated |
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| What was the golden age of radio? |
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| How did radio survive the oncoming of TVs? |
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| Rise of FM, Transistor, and format programming |
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| Mini. vacuum tube that wasn't as fragile or energy draining |
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| Format radio was a consistent programming schedule that creates a recognizable sound/personality for a station. Ex., WABB |
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| Time divisions radio station make in the day to determine programming |
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| Pie chart with all aspect of the programming hour shown |
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| Small percentage of the audience is chosen to represent the rest |
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| What are turnkey networks? |
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| Around the clock music coverage; very cheap; professional -> not much of a local station |
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| Radio that do not earn most of their moeny via advertisement; usually educational |
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| How is concentration of power in radio stations affecting the world? |
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| one side of an argument/situation is emphasized. Sides that criticize the owner of the station is usually not expressed. |
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| How are radio stations changing due to "homogenized programing?" |
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| Because radio stations copy a successful format, they all often sound similar. Go with what works; little experimentation |
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| Radio personalities who get humor and ratings from lewd, tasteless comments (sexism, racism, etc) |
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| Radio where they feed off people's hate, insecurity, etc so that they are prejudice towards a certain race |
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| Unlicensed, Illegal, low power outlets |
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| low power stations that few people listen to |
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| Bribing DJs or Radio director to promote their records on their radio stations |
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