Mass Communication

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What did NBC-Blue become?

ABC

Where did Internet come from?

ARPAnet

Who created the first Radio Network?

AT&T

Who made parallel discoveries?

Alexander Popov

What was the most popular comedy in the 1930's?

Amos n Andy

What does AM stand for?

Amplitude Modulation

Define Mass Media.

Are the cultural industries that produce and distribute.

What are the 3 keys of Mass Communication?

Audience Geographic Seperation Technology

what is considered to be high culture?

Ballet

Who invaded America in the 1964?

Beatles

Who made the Disc Recording? When?

Berliner and Vinyl Records and in 1880

Who founded Motown?

Berry Gordy

what is slang for sex?

Blues

What is Internet Radio?

Broadcasting Radio Stations now have an online presence

What allows users to navigate the web?

Browser

What is the biggest threat to the Internet's democratic potential?

Commercialism

What does CATV stand for?

Community Atenna Television

who started dominating the Internet by the end of the 1990's?

Companies such as Yahoo and Microsoft

What is the percentage break down of Radio Advertising?

Comprise 80% of media Advertising Only 20% of Budget goes to equipment

What was made in 1970?

Digital Recording

What does DBS?

Direct Broadcast Satellite

What is Media Convergence?

Dual roles and Cross Platforms

Who made the wax cylinder? When?

Edison and in 1877

Who discovered and developed FM in the 1920's and 1930's?

Edwin Armstrong

What are the four keys of modern vales?

Efficiency Individualism Rationalism Progress

What is the Evolution of a New Mass Medium?

Emergence or Novelty Stage Entrepreneurial Stage Mass Medium Stage Convergence Stage

What became the standard for transmitting communication data rapidly?

Fiber-optic cable

What does FM stand for?

Frequency Modulation

How did RCA get started?

GE Broke off negotiations to sell radio technologies to European Companies

what is an example of Premium Cable?

HBO

Who is Charles "Doc" Herrold?

He began a station in 1909 that later became KCBS

What did Frank Conrad do?

He established the first commercial broadcast station KDKA

what did victor do in 1900?

He made the Talking Machine

What did Tin Pan Alley do?

He published sheet music for new forms of popular music such as jazz and crooners

Who is Lee De Forest?

He wrote the first PH.D thesis on wireless technology in 1899

What does HBO stand for?

Home Box Office

What does HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language

Children's Internet Protection Act passed in what year?

In 2003

when was compact disc was made?

In the 1980's

When was DVD was made?

In the 1990's

What is one form of digital communication?

Instant Messaging

What does ISP stand for?

Internet Service Providers

What did Nikola Tesla do?

Invented the wireless system in 1892

What is Rhythm and Blues?

Is R&B and it is a blues-based music for urban black music

What is War of the World? Where did it create a panic?

Is a broadcast by Orson Welles on Halloween eve in 1938 in the style of a radio news program. In New York and New Jersey

what is Social Media?

Is the venues for social interactions and he platform that enables the interactive web.

what does HTML do?

It allows computers to communicate.

What does ISP do?

It connects users to their proprietary web system

The two biggest advantages of CATV?

It eliminated over-the -air interference Increase Channel capacity

What does Satellite Radio do?

It enables multicasting by AM andFM broadcasters and provides program data

What is culture?

It is an on going and complicated process

What does LPFM means?

Low-Power FM

what was made in the 1940's in Germany?

Magnetic audiotapes

what does MMORPG stands for?

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games

What critical process takes us through the steps of description, analysis, interpret, evaluation, and engagement?

Media Literacy

What allowed for the first personal computers?

Microprocessors

what signaled the Net's Market ability?

Microprocessors

What is Advertising?

Modern marketing that relies on data mining

What does NPR means?

National Public Radio

What is Digital Communication?

News and Social interactions

What are some varieties of formats?

News, Talk, and Information

Was CBS first attempt a success?

No, it was a failure

What was the first home TV game?

Odyssey

What was developed by independent programmers who openly share their ideas and source codes?

Open-Source Software

What are the Eras in Communication?

Oral Communication Written Communication Printed Communication Electronic Communication Digital Communication

Where was CATV located?

Originated where moutains or tall buildings blocked TV signals

What is Oligopoly?

People owning own company

What is one form of identity theft?

Phishing

De Martinville created what in 1850's?

Phonautograph

What are the keys of post modern?

Populism Diversity Nostalgia Paradox

What did Heinrich Hertz do?

Proved Maxwell theories and advanced the delevopment of wireless

What does PBS means?

Public Broadcasting Service

Who had the first successful color broadcast system in 1954?

RCA

Who sued Farnsworth over Zworykin's iconoscope patent and lost and had to license patents from Farnsworth?

RCA

Who is David Sarnoff?

RCA's first General Manager

What does RCA stand for?

Radio Corporation of America

What Guglielmo Marconi do?

Received a patent on wireless telegraphy in England in1896

What is payola?

Record promoters paying deejays to play a particular records

What is Net Neutrality?

Refers to the principle that every Websites and every user has the right to the same Internet Network speed and access

Who was the first voice broadcaster?

Reginald Fessenden

Automated route to finding content on the internet is called

Search Engines

What are the Linear Model of Mass Communication?

Sender Receivers Messages Gatekeepers Mass Media Channel Feedback

What is Fourth Screen Technology referred to?

Smartphones and ETC.

What is considered to be low culture?

Soap Operas

Examples of mass media.

Songs, Television, Movies, Internet Services, and etc.

What is the Radio Act of 1927?

States that stations could only license their channels as long as they operated to serve "the public interest, convenience, or necessity"

In the 1950's what was made?

Stereo Sound

What is changing constantly before ours and in what era?

Stories and are changing in the digital era.

Who created ARPAnet and when did the development start?

The Department of Defense and it started in the 1960's

Who took over the radio during World War I?

The Navy

What required a licensing and adopted the SOS distress signal?

The Radio Act of 1912

In the 1800's what dance was viewed as primitive, and sexual; banned from Argentina?

The Tango

in 1700's what dance was viewed as "savage"?

The Waltz

what was Lee De Deforest biggest breakthrough?

The development of the Audio

What was CATV?

The first small cable system

What is soul?

The merging of R&B, Gospel, Pop

What are Cultural Critics concerned about?

The quality of Contemporary culture The overwhelming amount of information now available

In 2007, what did the 4 of the largest broadcasting companies agreed to?

They all agreed to give $12.5 million dollars to settle the payola investigation

What was wrong with Prime Time Quiz Shows?

They dropped by networks amid allegations of being fixed

What did ASCAP do?

They established the music right fees for radio by 1925.

Who and when developed the World Wide Web(www.)?

Tim Berners-Lee developed the world wide web in the late 1980's

What is Third screen Technology referred to?

To view the content on a computer screen

Who developed the Top 40 radio format?

Todd Storz in 1949

What is purpose of DVD & DVR?

Video Rental Time Shifting

What does VCR's?

Videocassette recorders

what was the first Tv Station in New Orleans?

WDSU

what was the first station to sell advertising?

WEAF in New York

Who stared CBS?

William S. Paely

Types of social media are

blogs, web log, social networking sites, content communities


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