mass com chapter 15

The Simpsons Movie premiered simultaneously in _____ countries and in _____ languages. Its summer 2007 opening weekend box office in the United States was $72 million. Elsewhere, it topped $100 million.

100/50

MacBride Report

1980; UNESCO issued this report on the question of maintaining national & cultural sovereignty in the face of the rapid globalization of mass media; "many voices one world"

exogenous station

A clandestine broadcast operation that operates outside the region into which it transmits is an:

Al-Hurra

Among America's external services is _____________, which attempts to improve the image of the United States in the Middle East.

Radio Sila

Among America's external services is _____________, which broadcasts to audiences in Darfur from neighboring Chad

Radio Free Asia

Among America's external services is _____________, which broadcasts to most of Asia but primarily targets China.

Britain's external service is the:

BBC

1.35

Different countries spend different amounts of money in support of noncommercial media. For example, annual government funding for noncommercial media in the United States amounts to $_____ per person. In Canada it is $22.48; in Slovenia, $51.57; in the United Kingdom, $80.36; in Denmark, $101.00; and in Finland, $101.01.

Advertising is strictly forbidden, even today, as a source of financial support for China's broadcast system

FALSE

Italians were generally receptive to McDonald's attempts to include native Italian foods in its McItaly fast foods.

FALSE

The Chinese media system is a hybrid of both the U.S. and British systems.

FALSE

The world's most respected external service is the VOA. Question options:

FALSE

Whereas many developing nations fear cultural imperialism, especially from U.S. media, our European friends with well-developed cultures and media systems—for example, the French—do not share those concerns. t or f

FALSE

D-notice

Great Britain does not have a First Amendment similar to that of the United States, allowing the government to practice prior restraint by making an officially issued notice called a:

Pirate Stations

Illegally operated radio stations broadcasting to English audiences from offshore or foreign facilities during the 1960s were called:

COMSAT

In 1962 the U.S. Congress established _____________ to coordinate ownership and operation of America's communications satellite system.

license fees

In Great Britain the BBC is funded by _____________ based on the number of receivers people have in their homes.

a surrogate service

In international broadcasting, an operation established by one country to substitute for another's own domestic service

public service remit

Limits on advertising and other public service requirements imposed on Britain's commercial broadcasters in exchange for the right to broadcast constitute broadcasters':

external services

Many countries maintain broadcasting services, called _____________, that are designed to counter the propaganda of rival nations and disseminate information about themselves.

cultural imperialism

Many countries, especially developing countries lacking sufficient resources to create their own quality media fare, fear that U.S. cultural values will overwhelm and displace those of their own lands, a process known as:

E. C. Osborn

Radio came to China via an American reporter named _____________, who established an experimental radio station there in 1923.

The satellite revolution began with the launch in 1957 of _____________, the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth.

Sputnik

Even though Korea is one of the United States' most loyal international friends, it still limits the number of American movies it imports each year

TRUE

Prior restraint is allowed in Great Britain. Question options:

TRUE

the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service

The American broadcasting service established during World War II and the Cold War to deliver Department of Defense internal information, and radio and television programming services to overseas Department of Defense personnel. "touch of home"

Marti

The American surrogate service transmitting into Cuba is Radio and Television

revolutionary

The normative theory characterized by media attempting to end government monopoly over information, facilitate the organization of opposition to the incumbent powers, destroy the legitimacy of a standing government, and bring down a standing government is the _____________ concept.

authoritarian concept

The normative theory that calls for the subjugation of media for the purpose of serving the government is the _____________ concept.

Homer drinking a Duff beer

Which one of the following will you NOT see on a Saudi Arabian broadcast of The Simpsons?

Yahoo!

Yahoo!, Cisco, Google, and Microsoft have all angered freedom of expression advocates by the way they have served the Chinese government in order to do business in that giant country. But it is ______ that has earned the most ire because it has delivered information to the police that led to the jailing of several Chinese pro-democracy activists.

China

_________ has the world's largest and fastest-growing online population.

Comparative analysis

___________ has the "capacity to render the invisible visible", to draw attention to aspects of any media system, including our own, "that may be taken for granted and difficult to detect when the focus in on only one national case".

Sin public refers to ___________.

ad free broadcasts on Spanish public television

Radio Caroline and Radio Veronica are examples of:

are examples of pirate stations

The Spanish government bans the airing of television commercials for _________ before 10 p.m.

beauty products

The study of different countries' mass media systems is called:

comparative analysis

FreeNK, which broadcasts antigovernment messages into North Korea from South Korea, is an example of a(n):

exogenous station

Advertising provides the primary source of financial support for Britain's BBC. t or f

false; through TV licensing

British law only recently permitted product placement in television shows, but still forbids it ___________.

in children's programming

Western concept

normative theory; based on two realities of media operation: there is no completely free media system; and even in the most commercially driven systems, there exists the expectation of public service and responsibility, and significant communication-related activities of government to ensure that media professionals meet those responsibilities.

Development concept

normative theory; government & media work in partnership to ensure that media assist in the planned beneficial development of the country.

Sky waves

produced when shortwave radio waves reflect off the ionosphere

The Chinese media system is based on that of:

the former Soviet Union

Great Britain's media system operates under the Western concept of media. T or F

true