Exam #2

Question 0

Why does regulation emerge in electronic communication?

Answer 0

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

Question 1

How does the first amendment come into play?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What is a patent?

Answer 2

Legal decree that gives organization exclusive rights to new invention

Question 3

What company had the first patent on the telephone?

Answer 3

Bell

Question 4

What percentage of HH in 1895 had telephones?

Answer 4

1%

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Slashes rated and buys competition

Question 6

What is the 1st substantive US commtech policy do?

Answer 6

Institutionalizes bell monopoly

Question 7

Bell is known as what ?

Answer 7

“Common carrier”

Question 8

1921 Willis Graham Act is ?

Answer 8

Anti-trust exemption

Question 9

What is the first broadcast regulation?

Answer 9

Radio act of 1912

Question 10

Why did the radio act if 1912 arise?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What is the Radio act of 1927?

Answer 11

FRC is a spectrum sheriff, make a radio schedule

Question 12

The growth if radio & telephone:

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is the comm act of 1934?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What does the FCC regulate?

Answer 14

Broadcast in the public interest, convenient and necessity

Question 15

What is the 1974 US Lawsuit?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What is a 1982 settlement “modified final judgment”

Answer 16

No my local phone business, no more Yellow Pages

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is the change in telecommunications regulation?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Seven companies were down to four which are?

Answer 19

Verizon, Qwest, SBC, Bell south

Question 20

Four companies then went down to three which are?

Answer 20

Verizon, Qwest, AT&T

Question 21

What is the cable communication policy act of 1984?

Answer 21

FCC regulates cable, must carry (court strike down)

Question 22

1992 cable-television consumer protection and competition act?

Answer 22

Greater price controls, must carry is back, retransmission consent

Question 23

The COMM act of 1934 becomes what

Answer 23

Telecommunications act of 1996

Question 24

What does the telecommunications of 1996 do?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Telecommunications act of 1996 highlights

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Projected benefits of 1996 telecommunications act

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What are the acts effects on radio?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

When World War II starts what stops?

Answer 28

TV

Question 29

TV post World War II

Answer 29

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

Question 30

KTLA was what?

Answer 30

First broadcast from Paramount

Question 31

Early TV content included?

Answer 31

Simple production, low-budget, experimentation, continuity

Question 32

Who is Dr. Frank Stanton ?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

TV radio differences?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What a TV radio similarities

Answer 34

Competition, government, personality driven, experimentation

Question 35

TV impact on movies?

Answer 35

Reduced attendance, competition for content

Question 36

Movies come to embrace TV?

Answer 36

Outlet for production, develop talent, redistribution, promotion

Question 37

Economic consumer society

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Cultural impact the TV

Answer 38

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

Question 39

TV and politics

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What is second screen viewing?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Who was the first president on TV

Answer 41

Kennedy

Question 42

What is parasocial interaction?

Answer 42

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

Question 43

What is multichannel TV?

Answer 43

Cable TV, direct broadcast satellite, PayTV

Question 44

What are some examples of pay-TV

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Louis H Cook

Answer 45

Patent for pictures via wire prior to world war two

Question 46

CATV community antenna television is

Answer 46

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

Question 47

What is the "open skies" government policy?

Answer 47

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

Question 48

What is the first superstation?

Answer 48

1976 WTBS, Ted Turner

Question 49

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

Answer 49

HBO MTV ESPN

Question 50

What are satellite advantages over cable

Answer 50

Price much cheaper, better customer service, exclusive programming