Final Exam Flashcards

Question

Three-camera set-up

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All three cameras will have either one focal point with three different angles or three different focal points.

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Magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition.

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the act of selling something (such as a newspaper column or television series) for publication or broadcast to multiple newspapers, periodicals, websites, stations, etc.

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one of television's earliest documentary series, remains the standard by which broadcast journalism is judged for its courage and commitment.

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The use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition.

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ability (of the news media) to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda.

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the way news stories are constructed to evoke a particular interpretation or reaction from the audience.

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He is famous for his speech referring to television as a "vast wasteland"

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The phrase "vast wasteland" was suggested to Minow by his friend, reporter and freelance writer John Bartlow Martin. Martin had recently watched twenty consecutive hours of television as research for a magazine piece, and concluded it was "a vast wasteland of junk".

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The "rural purge" of American television networks was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows with demographically skewed audiences

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"All in the Family" is touted as the series that brought reality to prime-time TV entertainment.

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Norman Milton Lear is an American producer and screenwriter, who has produced, written, created, or developed over 100 shows. Lear is known for many popular 1970s sitcoms, including the multi-award winning All in the Family as well as Maude, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, and Good Times.

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The series was hailed as the first modern woman's sitcom.

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Seven English-language curse words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue.

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George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time.

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a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that defined the power of the Federal Communications Commission over indecent material as applied to broadcasting.

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Indecent content portrays sexual or excretory organs or activities in a way that is patently offensive but does not meet the three-prong test for obscenity.

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the time period in a television schedule during which programs with adult content can air.

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Critics and journalists lauded the series' frank depiction of slavery, and the resulting (albeit difficult) conversations between black and white Americans about a previously taboo subject matter.

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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries.

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require cable systems to carry local broadcast television stations.

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first cable radio stations

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broadcasting that enables the viewer to receive higher quality video and audio signals than conventional analog TV, with no ghost images and no noise.

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requires cable operators and other multichannel video programming distributors to obtain permission from commercial broadcasters before carrying their programming.

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Developed the CBS radio and Television Networks and ran them for more than half a century, he was Sarnoff’s only competition.

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Samuel Morse wrote the first digital communication with the wired telegraph

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Invented the wired telegraph

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discovered electromagnetic waves; realized light was a type of electromagnetic wave

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Demonstrated the existence of radio waves in 1885, setting the stage for the development of modern wireless communications. The measurement unit of electromagnetic frequencies was named for Hertz.

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Originally had the idea for voice transmission; broadcasted the first radio program only on AM in 1906; first one to put music on the radio.

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considered the father of radio broadcasting because of his invention that permitted reliable voice transmissions for both point-to-point communication and broadcasting

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the first radio legislation passed by Congress, it addressed the problem of amateur radio operators cramming the airwaves

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Supervises trade, promotes U.S. business, tourism

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Took over control of all ship radio stations

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A type of inexpensive variety show that first appeared in the 1870s, often consisting of comic sketches, song-and-dance routines, and magic acts

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The famous comic strip that entertained children during the Great Depression

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A radio comedy favorite that knitted the nation together.

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Catholic priest who used his popular radio program to criticize the New Deal; he grew increasingly anti-Roosevelt and anti-Semitic until the Catholic Church pulled him off the air.

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An actor, director, producer, writer. Created one of the most renowned radio broadcasts of all time ‘ The War of The Worlds”

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developed Top 40 radio

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Inventors of TV

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Samuel Morse wrote “What god had wrought” as the first digital communication.

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First message sent by wired telegraph

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All of the frequencies or wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation

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Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio

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Created by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 the company installed wireless telegraphs on British naval and private commercial ships.

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Created by Guglielmo Marconi in 1899 the company installed wireless telegraphs on American naval and private commercial ships.

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rotating machine invented by Ernst Alexanderson in 1904 for the generation of high-frequency alternating current for use as a radio transmitter. It was one of the first devices capable of generating the continuous radio waves needed for transmission of amplitude modulated signals by radio.

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First human voice broadcasted; called the “Christmas Eve broadcast”

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largest radio communications firm in the United States

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Congress ruled that all U.S. passenger ships had to carry a radio.

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British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States.

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founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric, Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Company.

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Head of RCA, he promoted the development of television as a mass medium yet blocked the development of FM radio for years because RCA produced and sold AM radio receivers

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The first commercial radio station in America (in Pittsburgh).

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Established the first commercial broadcast station, KDKA, in 1920

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the second radio legislation passed by Congress; in an attempt to restore order to the airwaves, the act stated that licensees did not own their channels but could license them if they operated to serve the “public interest, convenience, or necessity.”

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a body established in 1927 to oversee radio licenses and negotiate channel problems

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The Broadcasting Company of America (BCA) was a short-lived subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T). It was formed in May 1926 in order to consolidate AT&T’s radio station and network operations into a single organization.

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“red,” focused on entertainment and music, and “blue,” which only carried news

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Columbia Broadcasting System

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evangelist, founder of four square church of god, 1920s, used hollywood like tactics to get more followers, was popular on the radio, faked death. appealed to poor white people, practiced healing, anti evolution

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Hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly on CBS

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A radio and, later, television journalist and announcer who set the standard for journalistic excellence during TV’s golden age.

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1938 was a story on the radio directed by Orson Welles, it was so realistic people thought that aliens were actually invading

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A style of radio programming based on a set list of selections that are played repeatedly over the course of the broadcast day. It became the prevalent mode of radio programming from the late 1950s to the 1960s.

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became a popular music genre in the fifties with the introduction of Elvis Presley

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A disc jockey who began playing a unique style of music at the time called “rhythm-and-blues” on a Cleveland radio show, who gained a wide following from black and white teenagers due to his on-air attitude and style, gaining a wide following for this new genre that evolved into rock-and-roll.

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occurs when record companies give bribes to DJs to get their records played

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a mechanical television scanner consisting of a rotating disk with small holes upon its periphery through which narrow beams of light pass.

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Father of Televison. Farnsworth developed key patents for both the image disector camera tube and the receiving cathode ray tube

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slices pictures to send across electromagnetic spectrum

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Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes.

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Used in early video cameras to convert light into electric waves, thereby creating a projected image.