Chapter 7-Radio

Question 1

Who was competing over who invented the radio

Answer 1

Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi

Question 2

Who is the Father of Radio

Answer 2

Marconi , first to send signals/ telegraph code through the air up to two miles

Question 3

Who was interested in Marconi’s idea

Answer 3

Great Britain, not Italy

Question 4

Reginald Fessenden

Answer 4

Canadian who invented the liquid barretter

Question 5

liquid barretter

Answer 5

the first audio permitting the reception of wireless voice transmissions

Question 6

First public broadcast of voices and music

Answer 6

Christmas Eve broadcast from Brant Rock (small village) done by Reginald Fessenden

Question 7

American Lee DeForest

Answer 7

invented the audion tube

Question 8

audion tube

Answer 8

a vacuum tube that improved and amplified wireless signals, music became a reality

Question 9

DeForest saw radio as a

Answer 9

means of broadcasting

Question 10

After WWI

Answer 10

US govn. ordered closing of all stations of radio

Question 11

Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville

Answer 11

recorded a folk song on a phonautograph

Question 12

Edison patented

Answer 12

his “talking machine”

Question 13

“talking machine”

Answer 13

Edison’s device for replicating sound that used a hand-cranked grooved cylinder and a needle, but only ONE recording could be made of a given sound

Question 14

Emile Berliner

Answer 14

German immigrant, solved Edison’s problem, created a reasonably priced record player

Question 15

Who created two sided discs

Answer 15

Columbia Phonograph Company in 1905

Question 16

Joseph P. Maxwell

Answer 16

developed the electromagnetic recording in 1924 at Bell Laboratory

Question 17

broadcasting definition

Answer 17

transmitting voices and music at greater distances to a large number of people

Question 18

Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone company

Answer 18

delivered music to homes and businesses by telephone wires

Question 19

David Sarnoff

Answer 19

employee of Marconi, wrote the “Radio Music Box Memo”

Question 20

The Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

Answer 20

American Marconi, General Electric, American Telephone and Telegraph, and Westinghouse all joined together to create this government sanctioned monopoly that avoided direct government control of the radio medium

Question 21

RCA’s commercial manager

Answer 21

David Sarnoff

Question 22

KDKA

Answer 22

made the first commercial radio broadcast

Question 23

The RCA agreements showed what

Answer 23

that the government had an interest on the development and operation of radio

Question 24

Wireless Ship Act

Answer 24

required that all ships using US ports and carrying more than 50 passengers have a working wireless and operator

Question 25

Radio act of 1912

Answer 25

required wireless operators be licensed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, strengthened rules regarding radios present on ships

Question 26

Radio act of 1927

Answer 26

order was restored and the radio industry prospered again, authorized broadcasters to use channels, which belonged to the public, but that they couldnt own these channels

Question 27

Federal Radio Commission (FRC)

Answer 27

made to administer the radio act of 1927

Question 28

trustee model

Answer 28

the idea that broadcasters serve as the public’s trustees

Question 29

The communications act of 1934

Answer 29

replaced the 1927 legislation, substituted the Federal Communications act (FCC) for the FRC

Question 30

The communications act of 1934

Answer 30

replaced the 1927 legislation, substituted the Federal Communications act (FCC) for the FRC

Question 31

affiliates

Answer 31

groups of stations

Question 32

trustee model

Answer 32

in broadcast regulation, the idea that broadcasters serve as the public’s trustees or fiduciaries

Question 33

spectrum scarcity

Answer 33

broadcast spectrum space is limited, so not everyone who wants to broadcast can’ those who are granted licenses must accept regulation

Question 34

affiliate

Answer 34

a broadcasting station that aligns itself with a network

Question 35

O &O

Answer 35

a broadcasting station that is owned and operated by a network