Media and society midterm
Advantages of MP3 players include
All of the above
In the 1950s
All of the above
Which of the following technologies facilitate the showing of movies in theaters
All of the above
Today, US newspapers:
Are supported primarily by advertising
The publisher who, in 1833, lowered the price of his paper to a penny and sold it daily
Benjamin Day
Payola
Concerns the payment of cash or gifts by recording companies to DJs or program directors in exchange for airplay
Many recording music group say they make the bulk of their money from
Concert performances
Napster was ordered to shut down in 2001 for
Copyright infringement
The most threatening widespread type of piracy for the music industry is
Copywriting a pre-recorded CDs in their sale overseas in the United States
What is not true about overseas piracy of recording music according to the recording industry Association of America
Counterfeit copies are hard to tell from legitimate original recordings because the quality is as good as original
Of all the media......is growing the fastest
Digital media
Which is not true of legal music downloading from the Internet
Dollar a song downloading works only with Apple computers and apples iPod player
File sharing as it relates to the music recording industry means
Downloading music free from the Internet
FM radio was an immediate financial success that brought inventor Lee D Forest both wealth and happiness
False
In the 1980s Congress passed legislation requiring warning labels on records
False
Lawsuits by the recording industry Association of America has successfully stopped all music file sharing
False
Music videos have replaced promotional tours as the main revenue source for recording artists
False
The main recording centers in the United States or in Los Angeles, New York and Detroit
False
The movie industry makes more money each year than in the newspaper television or book businesses
False
The music industry, because of a popular appeal, has gained in profitable with the development of Internet technology
False
The pro liberation of technologies for delivery of radio signals means individual stations can be confident of a secure revenue base
False
In the past 30 years which of the following has not been true about magazines
General interest magazines have made a comeback
The most significant trend in radio today is towards
Greater audience segmentation
Satellite radio
Is supported primarily by subscriptions
Recent developments in mass media industries include
Magazines launching on line editions as income from print magazines sales decline
And increasing cost for the overall cost of movie production is
Marketing
Which of the following is not true of national public radio
NPR was established by the radio act of 1933
Identifying a specific audience segment and programming is called
Narrowcasting
Many newspapers, in their internet editions:
Offer current news for a nominal fee
Half the book titles sold each year are:
Popular fiction
The mass media in the United States are largely
Profit centered businesses
The telecommunications act of 1996
Removes the limit on the number of radio stations a company can own nationwide
The newest technology in radio today is
Satellite digital radio
The first truly national magazine with a large circulation was:
Saturday Evening Post
More than 3/4 of the popular books sold in the US before 1900 were
Sold door to door
Because of file sharing the recording industry Association of America has
Sued individuals who downloaded music
Which of the following is not true about warning labels on records
Teenagers demanded labeling of explicit lyrics
Which of the following events is evidence that the recording industry prefer self-regulation rather than government regulation of music recording lyric content
The adoption of a reading system and voluntary warning labels by the recording industry beginning in the 1980s
The most significant change in the marketing of books in the past 40 years has been
The growth of bookstore chains
The US vs paramount pictures case led to
The major studios divesting themselves for their theaters
What is not true about American mass media
The media do not consider themselves profit based businesses the way media do in other countries
Movie studios complain they lose money because
The number of admissions has dropped by three-quarter since the 1940s
What is not true about internet newspapers
They do not carry ads
An appeals court ordered Napster to shut down saying it violated copy rights to artists
True
Do you regulation in the 1980s in again in the 1990s lead to an upsurge in the number of radio station sold
True
During World War I the federal government ordered all amateurs off the air in the military took over radio broadcasting
True
Even though movies are the most fragmented media and makes relatively little compared to other media, it has had a huge impact on the culture of America
True
Google ownership in marketing is a trend in the movie industry today
True
In 2005 the US Supreme Court ruled that file sharing service Grokster could be sued for copyright infringement giving the recording industry ammunition to try to shut down such sites
True
In the future radio listeners will be able to assemble their own programs
True
Jaws was the movie that started the string a blockbuster movies that ultimately led to the cororatization of Hollywood
True
Lawsuits of the recording industry Association of America against individuals who downloaded music from the Internet afternoon or based on access to files of the individuals online music sharing account
True
More than 3000 radio stations Nelson programming over the Internet
True
Movies are the most fragmented media industry -created by one group founded by another sold by the third group and distributed by a fourth
True
Overseas piracy and content labeling or issues facing today's recording industry's
True
Part of the decline of the music industry can be attributed to a perfect storm of technology allowing people to pick and choose music at the same time the corporation music has led to substandard recordings
True
Radio station programming delivers a targeted audience to advertisers better than does television station programming
True
TV Guide has discontinued Publishing local television schedules to focus solely on celebrity news because changing technology and the expansion of television channels made it difficult to continue publishing listings in local communities
True
The group of people under 30 years old accounts for about half the recording industry's revenue
True
The movie industry was alerted to California in the early 1900s by cheap land, abundance sunshine, and inexpensive labor
True
The parents music resource center demanded that recording companies specifically Label albums that contain explicit lyrics
True
The war of the worlds broadcast demonstrated that alarming information could be misinterpreted by the public in radio stations had to take responsibility for their broadcast
True
There are many music program to radio stations now operating without DJs
True
What is the greatest developing threat to the movie DVD rental business?
Video on-demand services by cable and satellite services
David Sarnoff
What's the wireless operator who received a distress call from the sinking Titanic and became RCA's general manager
Most of the income the mass media collect annually is from:
advertising
Edwin H. Armstrong
developed FM radio
The Postal Act of 1879
lowered the mailing rates for magazines
The first half of the 20th century brought which new media?
movies, radio, recordings and television
The average magazine reader today:
owns a home and works full-time
Women sometimes became publishers in colonial times because:
they belonged to families of printers
