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Exam #2 Flashcards

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Why does regulation emerge in electronic communication?

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Monopoly issuers, limited radio wave spaces, no regulation in print bc of 1st amend, regulation in radio bc of monopoly

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How does the first amendment come into play?

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Freedom of speech and press which means lack of regulation of print materials

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What is a patent?

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Legal decree that gives organization exclusive rights to new invention

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What company had the first patent on the telephone?

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Bell

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What percentage of HH in 1895 had telephones?

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1%

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What does bell do to become “one single national service” ?

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Slashes rated and buys competition

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What is the 1st substantive US commtech policy do?

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Institutionalizes bell monopoly

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Bell is known as what ?

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“Common carrier”

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1921 Willis Graham Act is ?

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Anti-trust exemption

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What is the first broadcast regulation?

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Radio act of 1912

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Why did the radio act if 1912 arise?

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Because of the sinking of Titanic -all ships must have a radio

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What is the Radio act of 1927?

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FRC is a spectrum sheriff, make a radio schedule

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The growth if radio & telephone:

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Scattered government authority, relaxed enforcement and need for single regulatory body

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What is the comm act of 1934?

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FCC make available a wire & radio comm service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges

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What does the FCC regulate?

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Broadcast in the public interest, convenient and necessity

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What is the 1974 US Lawsuit?

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Attempts to break up the monopoly of local and long-distance phone and phone manufacturing

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What is a 1982 settlement “modified final judgment”

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No my local phone business, no more Yellow Pages

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What does AT&T get to keep during the settlement ?

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Long-distance (vs.competitors) Western electric, Bell labs

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What is the change in telecommunications regulation?

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Seven regional operating companies ROC formed from the 22 Bell operating companies

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Seven companies were down to four which are?

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Verizon, Qwest, SBC, Bell south

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Four companies then went down to three which are?

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Verizon, Qwest, AT&T

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What is the cable communication policy act of 1984?

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FCC regulates cable, must carry (court strike down)

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1992 cable-television consumer protection and competition act?

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Greater price controls, must carry is back, retransmission consent

23
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The COMM act of 1934 becomes what

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Telecommunications act of 1996

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What does the telecommunications of 1996 do?

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AT&T monopoly, protect consumers from that monopoly, regulate airways as a limited public resources

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Telecommunications act of 1996 highlights

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Competition between companies that have not competed, expanded ownership, deregulate cable rates, outlaw computer porn

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Projected benefits of 1996 telecommunications act

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Lower phone, multichannel TV and data releases, new competitors & innovative services, rapid implication

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What are the acts effects on radio?

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Expanded ownership= Clear Channel,cumulus etc., fewer minority owner, homogenization of context, less localism

28
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When World War II starts what stops?

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TV

29
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TV post World War II

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Sets begin to sell, more stations on air, network linkage, programming grows

30
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KTLA was what?

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First broadcast from Paramount

31
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Early TV content included?

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Simple production, low-budget, experimentation, continuity

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Who is Dr. Frank Stanton ?

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President of CBS, floodgates after WWII, lack of planning, radio pay TV Bills, turn toward TV

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TV radio differences?

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TV had a professional engineers, money, professional vs amateurs, time, competing system

34
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What a TV radio similarities

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Competition, government, personality driven, experimentation

35
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TV impact on movies?

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Reduced attendance, competition for content

36
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Movies come to embrace TV?

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Outlet for production, develop talent, redistribution, promotion

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Economic consumer society

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Postwar boom, consumption is good, tv content and ads, TV as a symbol

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Cultural impact the TV

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Materialism, stereotypes, American cultural identity, global village, TV as the national gathering place

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TV and politics

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Emotion/non-verbal/humanizes, Style over substance, power of moving pictures, impact perception, impact events, TV changes history

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What is second screen viewing?

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While watching TV use a second screen to look up information like game statistics

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Who was the first president on TV

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Kennedy

42
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What is parasocial interaction?

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Some people have one-way relationships with characters or movie stars

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What is multichannel TV?

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Cable TV, direct broadcast satellite, PayTV

44
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What are some examples of pay-TV

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Premium channels, pay-per-view, video on demand

45
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Louis H Cook

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Patent for pictures via wire prior to world war two

46
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CATV community antenna television is

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A large antenna the captures and broadcast signals and retransmits via wire

47
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What is the “open skies” government policy?

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It said to private companies that you can be allowed in the satellite business

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What is the first superstation?

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1976 WTBS, Ted Turner

49
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What are some television programs that jumped onto open skies policy?

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HBO MTV ESPN

50
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What are satellite advantages over cable

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Price much cheaper, better customer service, exclusive programming

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