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The company that backed Thomas Edison after the introduction of the incandescent lamp
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General Electric
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The company that backed Nikola Tesla's electrical discoveries
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George Westinghouse
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What inventor pushed direct current electricity?
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Thomas Edison
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What inventor pushed alternating current electricity?
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Nikola Tesla
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What company introduced the 45 rpm in 1948?
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RCA
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What company introduced 33 1/3 rpm in 1947?
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Columbia
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He experimented with popular music and sensational news in the 1950s
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Todd Storz
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The most popular program on radio
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Amos n Andy
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Some people consider ___ the father of radio because he was the first person to send radio waves over long distances
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Guglielmo Marconi
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This agreement stopped the news war between newspapers and radio
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1933 Biltmore Agreement
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German physicist ___ generated and detected "Maxwell waves" in a lab setting
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Heinrich Hertz
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This is the fourth radio network organized in 1934 and gave us the Lone Ranger
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WXYZ in Detroit
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Cleveland DJ ___ gave us the term "rock 'n roll"
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Alan Freed
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This organization was formed to produce and distribute radio programs
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Nation Public Radio (NPR)
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How many radio stations are there in the world?
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44,000
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___ dominate broadcast radio in 100 of the 112 major media markets
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Clear Channel
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The major advance Berliner's gramophone brought to sound recording was:
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make copies
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The Super Bowl in this year made the FCC more active than it had been in decades
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2004
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___ was the first station to broadcast to a general public
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Pittsburgh's KDKA
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Immediately after WWI, the U.S. government, concerned that the development of radio would be delayed by patent fights and that its future would be controlled by a foreign company (British Marconi), established a goverment-sanctioned monopoly to run radio called ___
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Radio Corporation of America
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What were the parts of the creation of the Radio Corporation of America?
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American Marconi, General Electric, American Telephone & Telegraph, and Westinghouse
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History's first educational radio license went to station ___ in Madison.
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WHA
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The first instance of U.S. government regulation of radio was the ___, passed to regulate maritime transmissions
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Wireles Ship Act of 1910
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After the sinking of the Titanic, the U.S. Congress passed the ___, mandating among other things that wireless operators be licensed by the secretary of commerce and labor.
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Radio Act of 1912
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The "shock jocks" who were fired for promotion of tasteless stunts
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Gregg "Opie" Hughes and "Anthony" Cumia
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Two legal challenges to the goverment regulatory authority soon followed the passage of the Radio Act of 1912: Hoover v. Intercity Radio Co., Inc. in 1923 and ___ in 1926. The broadcasters won both, effectively negating the federal government's power to license
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U.S. v. Zenith Radio Corp. et al.
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Satellite radio was launched in what year?
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2002
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FM made its debut during this era of radio.
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Era of Hit Radio
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Audiences for radio among teens and young adults is ___.
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Decreasing
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The Radio Act of 1927 ensured that the airwaves belonged to
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the public
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___ is the company that suffered most when Howard Stern turned to satellite radio
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Infinity
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This drew the largest audience in the history of the British Broadcasting Company
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the coronation of Queen Elizabeth
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The Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge who helped regulate the radio
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Herbert Hoover
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The decreased per unit cost as output increases
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Economies of Scale
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The first radio commercial appeared on station ___ in 1922
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WEAF
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Stations that link themselves to a national broadcast network for the purpose of airing its programs are called
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affiliates
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RCA established the first national radio network in 1926, linking 24 stations and called ___
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NBC Red
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Stations that are owned and operated by a broadcast network are called ___
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O & O's
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When, in 1943, the government ordered NBC to divest itself of one of its networks, it sold NBC Blue to Edward Noble who renamed it ___
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American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
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___ is credited with creating the "beautiful music" format
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Gordon McLendon
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In 1873, former California governor Leland Stanford employed which photographer to help him win his bet about running horses?
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Eadweard Muybridge
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The two-sided disc was introduced by this company
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Columbia Phonograph Company
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People can see motion in rapidly moving pictures because of the physiological phenomenon known as ___
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Persistence of Vision
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___ is known as the "first artist of the cinema"
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George Melies
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___ introduced the 45 rpm in 1948
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RCA
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The film company that almost went bankrupt and as a result, introduced talking films was ___
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Warner Brothers
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The demographic audience that spends the most money, $700 million, on film DVDs
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Latinos
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This Republican Party chair, church elder and former Postmaster General was appointed as president of the film organization created to put censorship in place
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Will Hays
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___ was the film organization that the film industry created to address the scandals in the early days of Hollywood
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MPPDA
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Celluloid roll film was developed in 1887 by ___
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Hannibal Gordon
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The first motion picture studio was built in New Jersey by ___
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Thomas Edison
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The name of the first motion picture studio was
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the Black Maria
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Edison's first films were not projected but run through a "peep show" device called a ___
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kinetoscope
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Music for the kinetoscope was provided by what other Edison invention?
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phonographe
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The Lumiere brothers' most important contribution to the development of motion pictures was __
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the vitascope
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The Lumiere brothers developed a device that would both shoot and project motion pictures called the ___
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cinematographe
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This organization was formed in 1958 to audit and certify record sales
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Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
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The early films of Edison and the Lumiere brothers:
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Shots of Reality
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Narrative was first introduced to film by
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George Miles
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The first film to utilize editing, intercutting of scenes, and a mobile camera to tell a story was
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The Great Train Robbery
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The first director to utilize editing, intercutting of scenes and a mobile camera to tell a story was
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Edwin S. Porter
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Important to film narrative is ___, the tying together of two separate but related shots in such a way that they take on a new, unified meaning
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Montage
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The Great Train Robbery is often credited with setting off the explosion of movie houses around 1905. The cost was five cents to see a movie at a ___
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nickelodeon
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___ employed a wide variety of film techniques to bring passion and heightened suspense to his 1915 classic, Birth of a Nation
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David Wark Griffith
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In 1908, Thomas Edison united the 10 companies that held all the necessary patents for film production into the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), which was often simply called the
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Trust
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The first all-sound movie, released in 1928 was
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New York Lights
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Adding to the scandals that surrounded Hollywood in the 1920s was the arrest of actor ___ for a murder in a San Francisco hotel
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Fatty Arbuckle
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MTV originated in ___
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New Jersey
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___ holds the record for the fastest selling album in U.S. history
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No Strings Attached
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The largest major studio in Hollywood is
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Warner Brothers
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The organization founded in 1914 to license and collect royalties and fees for musicians and composers on sales and performances of their work
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ASCAP
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The first gold single was awarded to ___
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Perry Como
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___ is the most recent level of achievement bestowed to recording artists
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Diamond
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The first person to specialize as a director in Hollywood
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David Wark Griffith
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___ is one of the very few true independent film studios around
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Lionsgate
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The first platinum single was awarded to ___
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Johnny Taylor
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True or False? Record company revenues in 2005 increased threefold
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True
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Electronic game companies started this organization to head off government regulations of the industry
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ESRB
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___ sells about eighty pre-packaged programs and designs as part of their global music business.
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Muzak
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The greatest year of movie making is thought to be ___
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1939
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True or False? College students spend approximately 40 hours a week watching television
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False
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___ is the fastest growing consumer electronic product of all time
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DVDs
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This network tried to bring English versions of Spanish telenovelas, but this programing attempt was ultimately unsuccessful
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My Network TV
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Which is not a consequence of television's influence on politics
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a lack of interest in voting
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The first public demonstration of television was presented in ___
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1939
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The FCC has mandated that all commercial television stations convert to digital broadcasting by
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Feb 17, 2009
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Once all stations convert to digital broadcasting, what is to become of their analog channels?
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Return to public
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This group watches more television than others
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females
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As a result of the quiz show scandal, the networks changed the way they accepted sponsors' money, changing from single sponsorship for most programs to
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spot commercials
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Lucille Ball's insistence that she, rather than CBS, own the rights to her television program set the stage not only for reruns, but for
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syndication industries
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The most watched night of television is
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sunday
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the primary collector and reporter of television ratings is a company known as
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Nielsen
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The least watched night of television is
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Saturday
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Color television was developed by
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RCA
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The following was true about television during the Golden Age
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1) most was live
2) black and white 3) ABC, CBS and NBC were the main networks 4) most networks VHF 5) most took place in NY |
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Television ratings employ an in-home device called ___ that records what families are watching and who in those families are actually viewing
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peoplemeter
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Four times each year, more detailed measuring of television audiences takes place, called ___, employing not only mechanical counting but home diaries
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Sweeps
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The percentage of TV homes with sets that are tuned in to a given program is that show's
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Share
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In 1962, Congress gave UHF television a boost with all the passage of all-channel legislation requiring:
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all sets can receive "all channels"
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A still-used derogatory name for television, the "vast wasteland", was coined by
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Newton Minow
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This is the night that advertisers feel is most attractive for their messages
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Thursday
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___ was the innovative NBC president who created two lasting television genres
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Pat Weaver
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The FCC freeze on television licenses was during these years
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1948-52
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The first reality program debuted on this network
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PBS
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aBC finally catches up with the other networks during the ___
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Era of Increasing Competition
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He is considered the best broadcast journalist of all time
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Edward R. Murrow
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True or False? The television industry gallantly resisted the Red hunters of the McCarthy era
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False
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___ is the network that was fortunate enough to have I Love Lucy on its airwaves in the 1950s
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CBS
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The first color television broadcast was in what year?
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1954
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True or False? CNN debuted in 1981
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False
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Which months are "sweeps" months?
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Feb, May, July, Nov
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The fourth television network in the 1950s
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DuMont
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The first reality program debuted in what year?
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1973
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What were four pivotal events that shaped television?
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Quiz Show Scandal, I Love Lucy, McCarthyism, and Establishment of Rating Systems
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Walter Cronkite was an icon on which television network?
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CBS
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The FCC began regulating cable in what year?
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1965
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Congress has said that ___ is the year that all analog television transmissions must end
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2009
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If your market has 100,000 television homes and 30,000 are tuned into your program, your rating is
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30
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___ is the cable rule that finaly died when the Supreme Court upheld the lower court ruling
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Must Carry Rule
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