Exam 2 Flashcards
In the 1920s, what caused phonograph and record sales to fall by half?
Radio broadcasting
Which organization was founded
to collect copyright fees for playing
recorded music?
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
Which of these technologies came first?
Phonographs
Which of these is not a form of popular music which rose to popularity in the
1950s?
jazz - 1920s
Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie
performed music from which genre,
also called the music of protest during
the 60s?
Folk music
Early experiments in wireless
transmissions were intended to improve
communication with what?
Ship to ship communication
What was created in 1949 as station
managers took more control of what
disc jockeys played, tied directly to
listener’s behavior throughout the day?
Format Radio
Ex: Top 40
What policy ended during the Reagan
Administration, paving the way for
conservative-dominated talk radio?
Fairness Doctirne
Which industry did television steal ideas
from the most in its earliest years?
Radio
Which genre of TV show failed to thrive
against the episodic series?
Anthologies: high culture vs low culture
What was the main motivation for TV
networks to pour money into news
broadcast operations in the 1960s?
To avoid being regulated
What was the outcome of the Supreme
Court’s 1979 Midwest Video decision?
Cable tv treated like magazines
What is the best description of Peak
TV?
too much television being made
What was the nickname of the first
movie production cartel, created by
Thomas Edison?
The Edison Trust
What is vertical integration, which
allowed big movie studios to push out
their competition?
Big studios produce, distribute, and exhibit their movies in house
What was the reason many Black film
studios closed as talkies rose in
popularity?
They could not afford the expensive transition to sound technology
Which of these is not a reason movie attendance started falling after 1946?
Ticket prices at opulent movie palaces soared
What is the largest source of revenue for a
modern-day movie?
Global markets
Matching: Sound Recording
British Invasion,
Matching: Radio
red/blue, hot clocks
Matching: Television
the big three, innovate/imitate/saturate
Matching: Movies
the big five, HUAC investigations, kinetoscope graphs
