Exam 2

Question 1

I Love Lucy

Answer 1

In 1955 I Love Lucy achieved a significant television first―it became the first television series to be broadcast as reruns.

Question 2

Three-camera set-up

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Videotape

Answer 3

Videotape is magnetic tape that is used to record moving pictures and sounds to be shown on television.

Question 4

Syndication

Answer 4

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

Question 5

See It Now

Answer 5

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

Question 6

McCarthyism

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Agenda setting

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Framing

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Newton Minnow

Answer 9

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

Question 10

“Television is a vast wasteland”

Answer 10

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”.

Question 11

The rural purge

Answer 11

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

Question 12

All in the Family

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Norman Lear

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Answer 14

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

Question 15

“Seven Dirty Words”

Answer 15

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

Question 16

George Carlin

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

FCC v. Pacifica

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Indecency & obscenity

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

“Safe harbor”

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Roots

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Alex Haley

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

“Must carry” rules

Answer 22

require cable systems to carry local broadcast television stations.

Question 23

HBO, ESPN, MTV

Answer 23

first cable radio stations

Question 24

Terrestrial broadcasting

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Retransmission consent

Answer 25

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