chapter 7 mass com

DARS

"Radio" that is delivered directly to people's homes and cars

DMX

"Radio" that is delivered to people's homes through their cable and/or satellite television services.

12. When broadcasters asked the government to help them solve their interference and other operational problem during the 1920's, it responded with: A series of 4 National Radio Conferences, involving industry experts, public officials and government regulators Disinterest, as the courts had already reled that it could not regulate the radio The Communications Act of 1934 Strict rules of ownership and advertising

-A series of 4 National Radio Conferences involving industry experts, public officials and government regulators

15. Stations that link themselves to a national broadcast network for the purpose of airing its programs are called: O&Os Affiliates Independents Translator stations

-Affiliates

2. 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: Patent Agreement Paramount Agreement Zenith Agreement Biltmore Agreement

-Biltmore Agreement

13. Web "radio stations" that exist solely on the Web are referred to as: IBOCs Bitcasters Pirate stations Streamers

-Bitcasters

9. Subscription sites that allow users to store their digital music online and stream it to any digital device anywhere are credited to fuel the rise in downloading of music. They are known as: Web radio Podcasts Cloud-music services MP3's

-Cloud-music services

17. Beyond the development of the gramophone, Emile Berliner advanced sound recording through his importation of well-known music from Europe and the: Development of the 45 rpm record Development of the 33-1/3 rpm record Development of the battery-powered phonograph Development of a sophisticated microphone for recording

-Devewlopment of a sophisticated microphone for recording

4. German immigrant Emile Berliner developed an improved sound recording device in 1887 called the: Gramophone Dictaphone Vitaphone Diskophone

-Gramophone

11. Some people consider ________ the "Father of Radio", because he was the first person to send radio waves over long distances. Lee DeForest Guglielmo Marconi David Sarnoff Heinrich Hertz

-Guglielmo Marconi

10. The major advance Berliner's gramophone brought to sound recording was that: It could accurately reproduce high fidelity It could run on battery power It allowed for the creation of a master, from which copies could be made All of these

-It allowed for the creation of a master, from which copies could be made

19. Online audio file sharing that employs person-to-person exchange of files while bypassing centralized servers is called: P2P Napster IBOC DMX

-P2P

5. Marconi's interest in developing wireless transmission was: Mass communication Point-to-Point communication Development of an advanced radio telescope Replacing telephone with radio

-Point-to-Point communication

7. 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.

-Radio Act of 1912

8. Immediately after WWI, the U.S. Gov., 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: American Marconi General Electric American Telephone and Telegraph Radio Corporation of America

-Radio Corporation of America

16. 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: Radio Network Memo Radio Music Box Memo Orchestra in a Box Memo Network Radio Memo

-Radio Music Box Memo

18. Peace came to the news war between radio and newspapers in the 1933 Biltmore Agreement. True False

-True

Broadcasting

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 _____

Streaming Services

Much of smartphone and tablet listening occurs via social networking sites' _______ _______.

NBC

RCA established the first national radio network in 1926, linking 24 stations and called:

KDKA

Radio station that got the first commercial radio licence Pittsburgh in 1920.

Two streaming

Services that allow the simultaneous downloading and accessing of music

WEAF

Station the first radio commercial appeared on in 1922.

-O&Os

Stations that are Owned and Operated by a broadcast network

BitTorrent

The P2P software which most fuels the contemporary recording industry's piracy fears.

The Radio Act of 1927

The act that created the Federal Radio Commission

Trustee

The concept that broadcasters in the U.S. license use of the airwaves owned by the people is called the _________ model of regulation.

Spectrum scarcity

The trustee model of broadcast regulation; because broadcast spectrum space is limited, those who are granted licenses to serve a local area must accept regulation.

Piracy

This 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.

The audion tube

a vacuum tube that improved and amplified wireless signals, was developed in 1906 by lee deforest

ABC

created in 1943; the government ordered NBC to sell one of its networks to edward noble.

Reginald Fessenden

developed the liquid barretter in 1903, making possible the radio reception of voices.

Open Source

freely downloaded software from the web

Billings

in radio, the dollars earned from the sale of air time are called ______

Primary drawback of Edison talking machine

only one recording of a given sound could be made; copies were not possible

Standard Distribution

states that the label underwrites the recording, manufacturing, distribution, and promotion of its artists' music. aka owns all rights.