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Exam 1 Flashcards

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William S. Paley

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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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May 24, 1844

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Samuel Morse wrote the first digital communication with the wired telegraph

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Samuel Morse

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Invented the wired telegraph

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James Maxwell

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

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Heinrich Hertz

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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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Reginald Fessenden

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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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Lee De Forest

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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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Radio Act of 1912

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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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Department of Commerce

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Supervises trade, promotes U.S. business, tourism

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US Navy and WW1

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Took over control of all ship radio stations

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Vaudeville

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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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Little Orphan Annie

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The famous comic strip that entertained children during the Great Depression

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Amos ‘n’ Andy

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A radio comedy favorite that knitted the nation together.

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Charles Coughlin

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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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Orson Welles

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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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Todd Storz

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developed Top 40 radio

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Paul Nipkow & Boris Rosing

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Inventors of TV

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Wired telegraphy

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

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“What hath God wrought”

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First message sent by wired telegraph

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The electromagnetic spectrum

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All of the frequencies or wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio

22
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British Marconi

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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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American Marconi

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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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Alternator-transmitter

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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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December 24, 1906

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

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United Telegraph Company

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largest radio communications firm in the United States

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Wireless Ship Act of 1910

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

28
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Titanic

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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.

29
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RCA

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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.

30
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David Sarnoff

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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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KDKA

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

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Frank Conrad

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Established the first commercial broadcast station, KDKA, in 1920

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Radio Act of 1927

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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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Federal Radio Commission

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

35
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AT&T and radio networks

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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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NBC Red & NBC Blue

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

37
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CBS

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Columbia Broadcasting System

38
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Aimee Semple McPherson

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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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Hear it Now

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

40
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Edward R. Murrow

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

41
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War of the Worlds

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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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Top 40 radio

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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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Rock and roll

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

44
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Alan Freed

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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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Payola

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

46
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Nipkow ring

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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.

47
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Philo Farnsworth

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

48
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Image dissector

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slices pictures to send across electromagnetic spectrum

49
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Vladimir Zworkin

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

50
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Iconoscope

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

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