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What was the main influence on american pop music?
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African Drumming/rythmic patterns
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What did the Radio Act of 1912 establish?
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The governments 1st attempt at regulating the radio. (started lisence)
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What types of music came into play in the 1930's?
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Big Band and Swing
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The FCC's Chain Broadcasting Rules did what?
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prohibited the networks from forcing programming on affiliates....put the networks out of the talent-booking business
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Broadcast Radio - Sub genres WHY?
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narrowcasting which led to better advertising
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Broadcast Radio - How were more stations avaliable?
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I cost less to make stations and produce music (no live bigbands)
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What is syndication?
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Companies that produce content for networks
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What did the Telecommunication act of 1996 do?
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deregulated media industries
Ex. Clear Channel bought up mad stations |
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O&O's vs. Affiliates who makes the mad $$ and why?
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O&O's because all the content is free and advertising goes directly to the company.
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What is so great about satelite radio?
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It avoids the FCC's policies on indecent exposure and the 7 dirty words.
EX. howard stern |
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What was the 1st moving picture?
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The Galloping Horse - a bet by Edward Muybridge
horse's name - Sallie Gardner |
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What was the 1st movie?
and how long was it? |
The Great Train Robbery
12 minutes in duration |
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What was the 1st feature film?
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Birth of a Nation "KKK"
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What gave movie studio's a large concentration of power in 1948?
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They owned writers, actors, studios, and the theatre/distribution
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What caused the break of the Concentration of power in the movie studios?
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The government saw a vertical monopoly which led to the studios departure from the distribution aspect of the business
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Studio's vs. TV (1950's)
What was the response of the studio's when TV started to threaten the market? |
They started to produce big blockbuster expensive films.
EX. Sparticus |
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In 1922 The Hay's Office did what?
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In 1922 the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America tried to CENSOR films
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Why did the Studio scene move to hollywood?
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Nice Weather, cheap property, far from NY (Bootleg Police)
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What do Movies of the future bring?
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DLP technology, 5.1 dolby digital sound, cheaper distribution
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What are some film genres?
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Film Noir (gothic), comedy, action, ect.
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How do people come up with new ideas for movies and television shows?
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take two or more allready popular genres and mix them
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What is the Order of release windows for a Film?
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Feature, Foriegn,PPV/On Demand, DVD, pay tv, foriegn tv, US network tv, syndication
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What window of distribution do movies make the most profit?
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DVD release
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What age of audience gives the most revenue to the a Feature Film in the theatre distribution window?
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people 18-36
dvd's for older folks w/ more $$ |
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What is known as the BEST movie ever?
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King Kong - used front/rear projection, matting, and composition
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What happened in 1948 that caused tv to stop?
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"THE FREEZE" the government stopped it because they didnt have set regulations yet
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What the dooce are the Fin-Syn Rules?
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"Financial Syndication" it limited how much content the networks could create for themselves
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UHF rules in the 1970's
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Ultra High Frequencey - allowed pretty much anyone who wanted a tv station to have one but they broadcasted a weak signal
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Who were the BIG 3 and what other network jumped in to break up the squad?
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NBC, ABC, CBS, and rupert murdoch's FOX jumped into the mix
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Who are the BIG 5?
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Disney, Viacom, New Corp, TimeWarner, NBC/Universal
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Why are Game Shows so popular for networks?
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They are a form of Cheap entertainment
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What are some programming strgeties?
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Hammock - sandwich a new show between old popular shows
Blocks - ex. comedy block Stunting - switching up times of an allready popular show |
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What is the role of the CPB?
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(corporation for public broadcasting) they play the middle man between congress's money and distribution to channels like PBS
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Genre TV channels?
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NOT like spike tv
WEATHER CHANNEL is allways news |
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Who made the first computer and what was it called?
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Turing created the first computer and it was called Colossus
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What was the first PC?
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Actually there are 3 debated ones...
Alto, Altair, and Apple 2 |
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What was the first popular computer game?
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PONG
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When was the Net BORN?
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1991 was the birth of the net
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What was the first operating computer network and what was it made for?
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ARPANET - used for military Defense - Nuclear warefare
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What was SABRE?
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the first form of internet AirLine Reservations
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What did the birth of the WWW bring?
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All of the cool fun junk -> The content on the web
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Role of MPAA motion pix
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They created ratings for movies because the Censorship was a flop
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What was the governments attempt to ban email spam?
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The Can Spam Law -> not effective
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