Chapter 2

Question 1

___% of Americans owned a radio by 1930

Answer 1

50

Question 2

Pianos were kept in the studio to

Answer 2

“fill time”

Question 3

Most radio served ______________

Answer 3

commercial interests

Question 4

______% of stations were owned by corporations

Answer 4

75

Question 5

Top radio corporations.

Answer 5

GE
AT&T
RCA
Westinghouse

Question 6

75% of stations were owned by _______________

Answer 6

corporations

Question 7

Solution for Madness on the Airways in 1919-1925

Answer 7

station classification

Question 8

Station Classification

Answer 8

Class A stations

Class B stations

Question 9

Run by individuals (armatures). Ham radio operators

Answer 9

Class A stations

Question 10

Run by corporations. Stringent programming standards (live vs. recorded)

Answer 10

Class B stations

Question 11

Station Classification caused lots of law suites because of 1st Amendment Violations and lead to ________________

Answer 11

Radio Act of 1927

Question 12

1. Open access was rejected
   - –Fewer good broadcasters were better than lots of mediocre ones
2. Radio would be regulated
3. Broadcasters must be licensed.
4. FRC (Federal Radio Commission) was created
5. Radio stations could operate with commercial interests
   - –Play ads and make $$$$$$

Answer 12

Radio Act of 1927

Question 13

The idea that fewer good broadcasters were better than lots of mediocre ones, which was rejected due to the Radio Act of 1927

Answer 13

Open access

Question 14

Under the Radio Act of 1927 radio would be ________

Answer 14

regulated

Question 15

Under the Radio Act of 1927 broadcasters must be _________

Answer 15

licensed

Question 16

Under the Radio Act of 1927 this commission was created

Answer 16

FRC

Question 17

FRC

Answer 17

Federal Radio Commission

Question 18

Under the Radio Act of 1927 radio stations could operate with _______________. Play ads and make $$$$$$

Answer 18

Commercial interests

Question 19

The provisions of the 1927 Radio Act were known as the ________________

Answer 19

Progressive Compromise

Question 20

Instead of a nationally controlled radio system the US decided on a corporately controlled radio system acting under guidelines imposed by the US Govt.

Answer 20

Progressive Compromise

Question 21

The implications of this “compromise” are still felt today

Answer 21

Progressive Compromise

Question 22

The newly created FRC went to work doing away with ________________

Answer 22

“unimportant stations.”

Question 23

The first radio network signed on in _______

Answer 23

1926

Question 24

What was the first radio station?

Answer 24

NBC

Question 25

NBC

Answer 25

National Broadcasting Company

Question 26

A new type of radio entertainment swept America by storm. | A show/serial featuring ________________

Answer 26

Recurring characters

Question 27

A handful of central performers who returned each week creating a sense of continuity and community

Answer 27

Recurring characters

Question 28

Recurring characters gave an invisible intimacy developed between these characters and the audience, and it resulted in ____________ & _____________

Answer 28

Tremendously popular & profitable shows

Question 29

____________ are the only stations in a market authorized to air a network’s programs.

Answer 29

Affiliates

Question 30

As the popularity of these programs rose, stations rushed to become NBC ______________

Answer 30

Affiliates

Question 31

Several frustrated station owners who were unable to become NBC affiliates joined together and created the _____________ in 1927

Answer 31

CBS

Question 32

CBS

Answer 32

Columbia Broadcasting System

Question 33

When was CBS created?

Answer 33

1927

Question 34

While radio was thriving (based on popularity), it sacrificed ___________ & ____________

Answer 34

flexibility & individuality

Question 35

__________ stations found it harder and harder to survive.

Answer 35

Unaffiliated

Question 36

In 1934 Congress passed the _____________ which abolished the FRC and created the FCC

Answer 36

Communications Act

Question 37

FCC

Answer 37

Federal Communications Commission

Question 38

The FCC was created to help break up some of the communications ________ that had developed by 1934.

Answer 38

monopolies

Question 39

What year was the Communications Act passed

Answer 39

1934

Question 40

The most notable monopoly that was broken up by the FCC was NBC, which eventually spawned the ___________

Answer 40

ABC

Question 41

ABC

Answer 41

American Broadcasting Company

Question 42

The FCC was mandated with _____________________

Answer 42

Safeguarding America’s airwaves

Question 43

-Ensuring limited interference -Issuing licenses -Shutting down pirate radio stations (Pirate radio generally describes the unlicensed broadcast of AM or FM radio wave signals over a wide range) -Maintaining decency on the air

Answer 43

Safeguarding America’s airwaves, handled by FCC

Question 44

________radio generally describes the unlicensed broadcast of AM or FM radio wave signals over a wide range

Answer 44

Pirate

Question 45

The FCC has the authority to punish any party who "utters any _______,______, or_______ language by means of radio communication."

Answer 45

Indecent Obscene Profane

Question 46

“language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities.”

Answer 46

Indecent

Question 47

Obscene

Answer 47

Depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way

Question 48

The average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex;

Answer 48

Obscene

Question 49

Taken as a whole, the work lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

Answer 49

Obscene

Question 50

“language so GROSSLY OFFENSIVE to members of the public who actually hear it as to amount to a NUISANCE"

Answer 50

Profane

Question 51

Safe Harbor

Answer 51

10pm-6am

Question 52

FCC thinks children are asleep from 10p-6a.

Answer 52

Safe Harbor

Question 53

Bubba the Love Sponge, Howard Stern, O&A, Imus and others would be played during

Answer 53

Safe Harbor

Question 54

The FCC rules are

Answer 54

SUBJECTIVE!