Chapter 7: Radio, Recording and Popular Music Flashcards
What is the liquid barreter?
the first audio device permitting reception of wireless voices
What is an audion tube?
a vacuum tube that improved an amplified wireless signals
What are affiliates?
groups of stations
What are O&Os?
used to refer to major national networks that did own and operate their own flagship stations
What is the trustee model?
In broadcast regulation the idea that the broadcasters serve as the public’s trustee or fiduciaries
What is spectrum scarcity?
broadcast spectrum space is limited so not everyone who wants to be broadcast can, those who are granted liscences must accept regultion
What is Low Power FM (LPFM)?
10- to 100-watt non profit community radio stations with a reach of only a few miles
What is format?
a radio stations particular sound or programming content
What are secondary services?
a radio stations second or non-primary format
What is a playlist?
a predetermined sequence of selected records
What is billings?
income earned from the sale of airtime
What is deregulation?
relaxation of ownership and other rules for radio and television
What is a duopoly?
one person or company owning and managing multiple radio stations in a single market
What is a personal peopleometer?
receivers that clip onto people’s clothing adn automatically register all the person’s media consumption
What is a cover?
rerecording of one artist’s music by another
What are ratings?
percentage of the total available audience reached
What are catalogue albums?
albums more than 3 years old
What are recent catalogue albums?
those that have been out for 15 months to 3 yrs
What is syndication?
sale of radio or television content to stations on a market by market basis
What is DMX?
Digital Music Express, home delivery of audio by cable
What is digital audio radio services (DARS)?
direct home or automobile delivery of audio by satellite
What is streaming?
the simultaneous downloading and accessing, playing, of digital audio or video data
What are bit casters?
web only radio stations, can only be accessed online
What is terrestrial radio?
Land based radio relying on digital compression technology to simultaneously transmit analog and one or more digital signals using existing spectrum space
What is in-band-on-channel (IBOC)?
Digital radio technology that uses digital compression to shrink digital and analog signals allowing both to occupy the same frequency
What is Web radio?
The delivery of “radio” directly to individual listeners via the Internet
What is podcasting?
The recording and downloading of audio files stored on servers
What is digital recording?
recording based on the conversion of sound into 1s and 0s logged in millisecond intervals in a computerized translation process
What is MP3?
MPEG-1, Audio Layer 3
What is a modem?
a device that translates digital computer information into analog form that so it can be transmitted throuhg telephone lines
What is open source software?
freely downloaded software
What is piracy?
The illegal recording and sale of copyrighted material and high-quality recordings
What is a P2P?
in reference to types of downloading, peer-to-peer
What is BitTorrent?
file sharing software that allows anonymous users to create “swarms” of data as they simultaneously download and upload “bits” of a given piece of content from countless, untraceable servers
What is copyright?
protecting content creators’ financial interest in their product
