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What is the motion picture protection code? ( mppc)
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established in 1934 to cut out anything profane from movies. ex. kissing, skimpy outfits, drugs, etc
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What is vertical integration?
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When studios made their own films, used their own outlets, and showed them in their own theaters. made illegal in 1948
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What did the justice department do in 1938?
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they sued the 5 big studios, Warner Brothers, MGM, Paramount, RKO, and 20th century fox, for restraint of trade. It was against vertical integration
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What is block booking/
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Practice of requiring exhibitors to rent out groups of movies, often inferior, to secure a better one.Made illegal in 1948
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What are the three component systems in the movie industry?
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Production (making of movies), distribution (supplying companies with copies of the movie as in cable or tv networks), and exhibition (movie theaters)
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What id the platform rollout strategy?
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to open a movie on only a few screens to see how it does with critics.
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What are Corporate Independents?
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Copanies who finance their their films through the profits of their own business.
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What movie began the Modern Independent film boom/
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The 1969 independent film "Easy Rider"
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What is Blockbuster Mentality?
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filmmaking characterized by reduced risk taking and more formulaic movies.
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What are Concept Films?
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movies that can be described in one line.
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What are franchise films?
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movies that are produced with the full intention of producing several sequals.
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In 1999 what three companies began demonstrations of their digital distrubution of films to theaters via satellite?
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Kodak, Texas Instruments, and CineComm
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What is Microcinema?
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When filmmakers use digital video cameras and desktop editing machines to find audiences.
ex. Blair Witch Project |
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What is Branding Films?
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the sponsor-financing of movies to advance a manufacturers product line
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What is (MPPDA)
Motion picture producers and distributors or America? |
1922
state legislatures create 100 seperate pieces of censory for movies |
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Who is D.W. Griffith?
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Brilliant director who invented rehearsals and scripts.
he made "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915 and it bacame the most influential silent film ever made |
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What is a Montage?
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when you tye together 2 shots to make it look like a whole new shot with a new unified meaning
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The first movie to use editing, intercutting, and a mobile camera was......??
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The Great Train Robbery
1903 |
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In _____ George Melies began making______.
He was often called____ |
1890's
One scene, one shot movies that told a story The first artist of the cinema |
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On ____, the ____ premiered in NY and the American movie business was born.
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April 23, 1896
edison Vitascope |
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What is a cinematographe?
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Patented in 1895, a device that both photographed and projected action
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What is a Kintescope?
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A new and improved picture tube. patented in 1891
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The first motion pic studio was built by______ and was called the_____?
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Thomas Edison
Black Maria |
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What is a Calotype?
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translucent paper that can print several prints.
now called a negative |
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What is a daguerreotpe?
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the process of recording amages on metal plates. patened in 1839
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The process of photogaphy was first developed by french inventor______ in the year_____
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Joseph Niepce, 1816
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What is a zoopraxiscope?
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a machine for projecting slides onto a distant surface.
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Brothers Aususte and Louis Lumiere displayed their new invention in_____
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1895
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What is a Kinetograph?
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A early motion picture camera discovered by William Dickson
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Who was considered the fater of the radio?
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Marconi successfully transmitted across the ______in year____ and the _____ in year___
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English channel, 1899
Atlantic, 1901 |
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What was the liquid Barretter and who invented it?
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the first audio device permitting reception of wireless voices, invented by Reginald Fessenden in 1903
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What was a audition tube?
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a vacuum tube that improved and amplified wireless signals
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When and who invented the flat disc gramophone and a sophisticated microphone?
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1887, Emile Berliner
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who invented the 2 sided disc
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The Columbia Phonograph company in 1905
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The introduction and broadcasting to a mass audience was delayed in the first 2 decades because...
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of patent fights and lawsuits
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What station and when made the first commercial radio broadcast?
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KDKA in november of 1920
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There were nearly 1 million radios in American homes in the year__
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1922
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What was the Wireless ship act?
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an act passed in 1910 stating that all ships carrying more than 50 ppl must have a working wireless and operator
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What was the Radio act?
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Passed in 1912 an act that required shipboard wireless to everyone and required that wireless operators be licensed by the secretary of commerce and labor
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What are affiliates?
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groups of stations
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In____ the government forced NBC to _____
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1943,
get rid of one of its networks. |
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What was/is the fundamental basis of broadcasting in the US?
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-Radio broadcasters were private
- regulation based on public interest -Stations licensed to serve specific localities -entertainment & info were basic content -Advertising was financial support for broadcasting |
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From 1930 to 1940 the amount of radios in American homes raised by ____
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18 million
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in an average week nearly how many ppl will listen to the radio?
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225 million
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Between 2002 and 2007 what happened with the radio business?
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the number of americans who considered radio their main media fell from 26% to 17%
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fm stations attract what percent of listeners?
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75%
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What does F.M. Stand for?
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frequency modulation
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What does A.M. Stand for?
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Amplitude modulation
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when was hte first FMstation put on the air and what was it called>
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1939, W2XMN
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What is format radio?
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a highly specialized, specific audience of particular interest to certain advertisers attracted with certain types of music
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What is a secondary service?
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When a radio station plays something that usually isnt on their channel. for example if a country station broadcasted a religious for ten hours on sat or sun
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Who was Todd Storz?
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A radio announcer who invented the top 40 in 1949, changing radio to less talk and more music
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In what year do the annual production of car stereos exceed that of home recievers for the first time>
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1951
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Explain the telecummunication act
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1996, eliminating controls and allowing companies to own more than one station or thing.
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What is duopoly?
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one person or comany owning and managing multiple radio stations in a single market
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What has happened since the 1996 act?
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more radio stations are being sold and there are fewer station owners.
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in 43 different cities more than 1/3 of the radio stations were what?
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owned by a single company
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what is a Low Power FM(lpfm)
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a nonprofit community radio station that only reaches a few miles
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what % of recorded music is controled by major recording companies?
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88%
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Sony BMG controlling ____% of the us music market is co owned by_________ and____
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28%
Japans sony & Germany's Bertlesmann |
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NY based Warner Music group controls____% of the US music market and is coowned by_______
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16%
Edgar Bronfman and several private investors |
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Universal Music group controls ____ % od US music market is owned by_____
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35%
French conglomerate Vivendi Universal |
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EMI records controls ____ % and is owned by ______
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9%
Englands EMI group |
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What are Catalogue albums?
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Albums more than 3 yrs old
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MTV's introduction in _____ helped do what?
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1981
helped pull the industry out of its 1979 slump |
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What is syndication>
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the sale of radio or televison content to stations on a market to market basis
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what are bitcasters?
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web-only radio shows
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What is streaming?
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downlaoding and accessing digital audio or video data
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when was the cd intruduced?
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1983
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What makes digital recording different than analog>
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digital is done with 1's and 0's making it more clear with no hum or hiss
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today cd's account for what percent of all music sales?
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38%
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What is non linear tv?
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watching television on our own schedual
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What is the Nipkow disc?
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Patented by paul nipkow in 1884, the first workable device for generating electrical signals suitable for the transmissions of a scene that ppl could see
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What did British inventor John Baird do in 1928
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he successfully sent a television picture from london to NY
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What is an Iconoscope tube?
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The first practical television camera tube, 1923
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RCA agreed to pay Farnsworth royalties for the use of his patents in the year____
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1939
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In 1941 FCC did what?
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granted construction permits to the first two commercial stations
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1n 1952 how many stations were broadcasting to 17 million tv homes
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108
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What put an end to the golden age of television?
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the change to spot sales. Which offered more room for advertising
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When and who invented the community antenna tv?
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John Walson 1948
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what did Milton sharpp invent?
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The Master antenna tv so that houses didnt have to have antennas on their roofs
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what is importation distant signals?
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the use of wires not only to provide reception but also for a wider variety of programming
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Why do network and network-type content dominate television?
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availability and production n distribution mechanisms
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What are the 5 steps for a program to get on the air?
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idea,
shop, the producer finds a network for the show Buy, a network buys it outline, the network needs an outline of the show Script, then the network will order a full script |
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what is First run syndication
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program produced specifically for sale into syndication on a market by market basis
ex, dr.phil |
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What is a Multiple system operator?
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a company that owns several cable franchises
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in 1983 the celluloid wasbought by whom?
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eastman
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what is a nickelodeon?
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a short silent film
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what were some demographic changes after WWI?
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marriage age dropped, families started earlier,baby boom,staying home wih kids
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when did tv replace movies and radio?
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mid 1950's
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where is the largest film industry in the world?
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india
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Inventor Marconi used___ not voice
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code
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what is payola?
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when artists pay dj's to play their songs
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Is CNN a television network?
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no
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premium cable was introducted in the year____
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1975
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the cable regulations of 1972 did what??
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required cable operators to carry all local broadcasts
limited the # of distant commercial stations carried |
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the telecommunication act of 1996 was the largest change since the year___
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1934
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what is the fastest growing medium in history?
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the internet
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Who produced the design for a computer?
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charles babbage
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what was the first electronic digital computer?
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Collossus
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Internet was begun by the
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Defense department's ARPA
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Internet is/was a survivable communication for a ____
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Post nuclear war world
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what does ARPA stand for?
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Advanced research project agency
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What is MILnet
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military network
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what is NSFnet?
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National science foundation
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Name some internet sevices
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email, usenet(bulletins), telnet, web browsers, chat, voip, p2p
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what is the digital divide?
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The growing contrast between the "info haves" and "info have nots"
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What are dome different types of social media
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blogs, podcasts, ratings,,
It allows ppl to say their opinions |
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what is the difference betwwen mass media and social media?
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mass media is when big networks talk to big audiences and social network is when the audiences speak for themselves
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what is a way to use social media?
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learn about websites and participate in them, for example, twitter
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what are MMORPG's
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systems that home computer users use like second life or sims
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