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Introduction to Communications > Chapter 7: Radio, Recording and Popular Music > Flashcards

Chapter 7: Radio, Recording and Popular Music Flashcards

1
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What is the liquid barreter?

A

the first audio device permitting reception of wireless voices

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What is an audion tube?

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a vacuum tube that improved an amplified wireless signals

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3
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What are affiliates?

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groups of stations

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What are O&Os?

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used to refer to major national networks that did own and operate their own flagship stations

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What is the trustee model?

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In broadcast regulation the idea that the broadcasters serve as the public’s trustee or fiduciaries

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6
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What is spectrum scarcity?

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broadcast spectrum space is limited so not everyone who wants to be broadcast can, those who are granted liscences must accept regultion

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7
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What is Low Power FM (LPFM)?

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10- to 100-watt non profit community radio stations with a reach of only a few miles

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8
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What is format?

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a radio stations particular sound or programming content

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What are secondary services?

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a radio stations second or non-primary format

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10
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What is a playlist?

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a predetermined sequence of selected records

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What is billings?

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income earned from the sale of airtime

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12
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What is deregulation?

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relaxation of ownership and other rules for radio and television

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What is a duopoly?

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one person or company owning and managing multiple radio stations in a single market

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What is a personal peopleometer?

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receivers that clip onto people’s clothing adn automatically register all the person’s media consumption

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What is a cover?

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rerecording of one artist’s music by another

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16
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What are ratings?

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percentage of the total available audience reached

17
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What are catalogue albums?

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albums more than 3 years old

18
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What are recent catalogue albums?

A

those that have been out for 15 months to 3 yrs

19
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What is syndication?

A

sale of radio or television content to stations on a market by market basis

20
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What is DMX?

A

Digital Music Express, home delivery of audio by cable

21
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What is digital audio radio services (DARS)?

A

direct home or automobile delivery of audio by satellite

22
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What is streaming?

A

the simultaneous downloading and accessing, playing, of digital audio or video data

23
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What are bit casters?

A

web only radio stations, can only be accessed online

24
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What is terrestrial radio?

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Land based radio relying on digital compression technology to simultaneously transmit analog and one or more digital signals using existing spectrum space

25
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What is in-band-on-channel (IBOC)?

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Digital radio technology that uses digital compression to shrink digital and analog signals allowing both to occupy the same frequency

26
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What is Web radio?

A

The delivery of “radio” directly to individual listeners via the Internet

27
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What is podcasting?

A

The recording and downloading of audio files stored on servers

28
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What is digital recording?

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recording based on the conversion of sound into 1s and 0s logged in millisecond intervals in a computerized translation process

29
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What is MP3?

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MPEG-1, Audio Layer 3

30
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What is a modem?

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a device that translates digital computer information into analog form that so it can be transmitted throuhg telephone lines

31
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What is open source software?

A

freely downloaded software

32
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What is piracy?

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The illegal recording and sale of copyrighted material and high-quality recordings

33
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What is a P2P?

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in reference to types of downloading, peer-to-peer

34
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What is BitTorrent?

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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

35
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What is copyright?

A

protecting content creators’ financial interest in their product

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