Intro to Mass Comm. Chapter 4 quiz answers
Lee DeForest
Above all the early radio pioneers, only one is called the father of radio and shares a name with Mr. Williams.
Digital rights management
DRM stands for which of the following?
monitoring illegal downloads by Mr. Williams daughter. protecting copyrights paying music artists for their creations going to court against peer-2-peer sharing All of the above - Correct
Digital Rights Management means
From on-air advertisements
How do commercial radio stations make their money?
Jack Benny
In class, Mr. Williams compared a 1932 radio broadcast to a 1947 radio broadcast by which comic?
digital/online advertising, though growing fast, brings in only half the revenue of television.
In her case study, student Tara Cox presented a graph that showed __________.
NPR
In his HotPop, student Alex Wilbins showed a source with streaming and podcasts: _____________?
YouTube
In our class discussion about radio-audio, student Lane Rutherford (tall skinny guy w glasses) said he gets much of his music from a different place, _____________.
streaming has increased by 69%
In our class discussion about radio-audio, student Sarah Norris found data from the New York times that shows __________.
streaming revenue was almost 4-billion in 2016
In our class discussion about radio-audio, student Sarah Norris found data from the New York times that shows __________.
An Internet file-sharing program
Napster was which of the following?
most died poor
One thing can be said about most of the early pioneers of radio is ________________
online music now outsells CDs
One thing is true about CDs________________
create their own playlists
Slacker, Pandora and Spotify allow listeners to __________
12 cents
Songwriter Ryan Floyd said that for every dollar spent on his songs on iTunes, he gets about _________.
88.1 - 91/9
Student David Standingwater looked up the frequencies allotted to non-commercial FM stations. He discovered these NON-commercial frequencies are ________.
Granville Woods
The African-American scientist who invented railway telegraphy that allows messages to be sent between moving trains is __________
all of the above
The Radio Act of 1927 did the following. Note there is only one most-correct answer.
Radio Act
The ______ was created in 1927 to help establish regulation and order over the chaos of the largely unregulated airwaves.
Creation, promotion, and distribution
The basic business model in the recorded music industry can be divided into which three main parts?
Over half of the total sales volume in both industries comes from only a handful of artists/clients, numbering only in the hundreds.
The recorded-music industry is similar to book publishing in what key way?
Under a freemium model, some content is free, but a monthly subscription is required to access some content.
What is the major difference between a freemium model and a regular subscription service?
FM radio has less static and greater bandwidth.
Which of the following best explains why FM radio is more popular than AM radio today?
Radio is cheap to transmit and receive.
Which of the following best explains why radio is particularly important in developing nations?
Satellite radio is a subscription-based service with fewer limitations on content and access to much larger territory than traditional radio.
Which of the following best summarizes the main difference(s) between satellite radio and "traditional" radio?
A live transmission of Presidential Debates.
Which of the following would be most likely to appear on NPR (National Public Radio)?
NPR
Which of the following would best be categorized as a noncommercial radio service?
All of the above
Which of these is true about KVOO AM in Tulsa?
Edwin Howard Armstrong
_______ invented FM radio.
