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| Russian; developed circuit for transforming a visual image to an electronic signal |
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| Developed a way to transform a visual image to an electronic signal (same as Zworykin; same time too) |
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| Rows of lighted dots that make up a television picture image |
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| Lighted dots that create a television picture |
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| placement of station's frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum |
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| Why did the FCC place a four year freeze on all TV licensing from 1948 to 1952? |
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| To give itself time to establish a way to fairly distribute TV stations and not have them clash with one another |
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| Local stations that have a contractual relationship with the network but are not owned by the network |
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| Forerunner of videotape recordings; poor quality films taken from television monitor in the network studio |
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| What were the causes of the TV's golden age? |
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1) high quality works to attract the rich people who could afford TV
2) In NY; plenty of writers/actors
3) playwrites wrote original works since movies refused to share |
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| How has television changed society? |
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1) Gave a lot of information about politics
2) decrease interaction between family members
3) influenced the speech pattern of the people
4) reinforce sterotypes |
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| Community Antenna Television (CATV) |
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| first cable television; give viewers in hard to reach areas satisfactory reception from their nearest broadcast TV stations |
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| Brining in additional signals from distant stations (in cable tv) |
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| cable systems had to carry all local TV stations within each system's area of coverage |
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| What was cable's main advantage over air wave TVs? |
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| Taping programs on video for later viewing |
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| Used cassette tapes instead of reels |
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| Digital video recorders (DVRs) |
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| specialized computers with oversized hard drives that video signal were saved upon |
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| high definition television |
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| scanning lines are doubled; wider; high quality sound, etc |
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| Services that allow subscribers to order recent films at any time |
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| Multiple system operator (MSOs) |
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| companies that own several local cable service providers |
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| What is needed for an MSO to establish itself? |
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| Franchise agreement with the local government; usually public access channels |
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| Channels that are supplied with the least expensive program package |
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| What are subscriber fees? |
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| Fee system operators have to pay for showing a certain channel on their system (i.e, CNN, MTV) |
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| Charging customers for the channels they choose to recieve |
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| pay cable; provide programming for an additional fee |
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| Order recent feature films, sport event, concerts, etc on demand |
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| What are public Access Channels? |
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| Local channels that are provided by cable companies as per their franchise agreement. Nonprofit/commerical free; used for things like religious discussion, live music, etc |
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| Parked in space-- above one section of the earth |
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| Direct Broadcast Satellites |
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| Systems that deliver programmings via. satellite dishes; strong competitor of cable |
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| Fairly recent; required satellites; more channels than cable; strong competitors |
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| All broadcast television are local stations since they can only be revieve up to 50 miles from transmission tower |
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| How do affilitates connect to large TV networks? |
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| They show the network's programmings in return for compensation. Network supply 60% of the affliate's programming and the affliate keeps all local advertisement revenues. |
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| Sale of television programs directly to stations, cable channels, and online venues |
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| Programs that were shown earlier on one of the networks before being syndicated |
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| Showing a program 5 times a week |
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| Sales of new programs that were not shown earlier on a network |
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| Public Broadcasting Service |
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| Organization made up of public stations that act like a network (but it doesn't make programmings, instead it shares its member stations' programmings. |
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| Percentage of all homes equipped with televisions that area tuned to a particular station at a particular time |
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| percentage of homes in which the television is in use and tuned to a particular station |
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| Best known rating service |
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| Meters that measure what ch a person watch and how long they watch it for |
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| November, February, May, and July |
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| Why are sweep months important? |
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| The months in which the TV set the advertising rate for the next 3 months |
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| What are the main controversies of TV? |
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| Violence, Sex, and reinforcement of sterotypes |
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| Who has the highest percentage of violence? |
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| What is the controversies of violence? |
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| Many of the "good" and "bad" characters solve their problems with violence and do not get punished for it |
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| TVs reinforce all kinds of sterotypes |
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| What are some controversies that TV are facing? |
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| Sterotypes, Lack of educational programming, excessive violence |
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| electronic device that can be set to recognize and block programs with a particuclar rating |
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