Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

American Media > Final Exam > Flashcards

Final Exam Flashcards

1
Q

The Telecommunications Act of 1996

A

“Let anyone enter any communications business”–deregulation of the converging broadcasting and telecommunications markets.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Communications Decency Act of 1996

A

Prohibited any individual from knowingly transmitting “obscene or indecent” messages to a recipient under the age of 18.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Cross-media ownership

A

A single corporate entity owns multiple types of media companies.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Station ownership rules pre-1996

A

A company was prohibited from owning more than 40 stations, and from owning more than two AM and two FM stations in one market.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Station ownership rules post-1996

A

Revised to allow a party to own up to 8 commercial radio stations in a market

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Prestige television

A

A period widely regarded as being marked by a large number of “high quality”, internationally acclaimed television programs.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

ARPANET

A

First public packet-switched computer network.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

CompuServe

A

The first service to offer electronic mail capabilities and technical support to personal computer users.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

William Von Meister

A

Founded and participated in a number of startup ventures; The Source

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

The Source

A

American hip hop and entertainment website

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

IBM 5150

A

First microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Quantum Computer Services

A

Providing on demand services of quantum computers.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

America Online

A

AOL offers Internet users services that include e-mail

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Universal resource locators (URLs)

A

A unique identifier used to locate a resource on the Internet. It is also referred to as a web address.

Consists of multiple parts – including a protocol and domain name – that tell a web browser how and where to retrieve a resource.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Internet service providers (ISPs)

A

A company that provides access to the internet

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

A

A text-based approach to describing how content contained within an HTML file is structured.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Tim Berners-Lee

A

Inventor of the World Wide Web.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Online hubs

A

A business-to-business website for a particular industry.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Piracy

A

Unauthorized duplication of copyrighted content that is then sold at substant.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Napster

A

Napster allowed users to share, over the Internet, electronic copies of music stored on their personal computers.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Web 1.0 & Web 2.0

A

Web 1.0 sites include Slashdot and Craigslist, while Web 2.0 sites include Twitter and Facebook

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Net neutrality

A

Net neutrality is the principle that an ISP has to provide access to all sites, content and applications at the same speed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Cambridge Analytica

A

Facebook breached data protection laws by failing to keep users’ personal information secure, allowing Cambridge Analytica to harvest the data of up to 87 million people without their consent worldwide.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

I Love Lucy

A

Lucille ball plays the character Lucy, a silly woman who is always getting involved in funny, complicated situations.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Three-camera set-up

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Videotape

A

Magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

Syndicationthe

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

See It Now

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

McCarthyism

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

Agenda setting

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Framing

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

Newton Minnow

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

“Television is a vast wasteland”

A

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”.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

The rural purge

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

All in the Family

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

Norman Lear

A

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.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

“Seven Dirty Words”

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

George Carlin

A

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.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

FCC v. Pacifica

A

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

41
Q

Indecency & obscenity

A

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.

42
Q

“Safe harbor”

A

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

43
Q

Roots

A

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.

44
Q

Alex Haley

A

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.

45
Q

“Must carry” rules

A

require cable systems to carry local broadcast television stations.

46
Q

HBO, ESPN, MTV

A

first cable radio stations

47
Q

Terrestrial broadcasting

A

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

48
Q

Retransmission consent

A

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

49
Q

William S. Paley

A

Developed the CBS radio and Television Networks and ran them for more than half a century, he was Sarnoff’s only competition.

50
Q

May 24, 1844

A

Samuel Morse wrote the first digital communication with the wired telegraph

51
Q

Samuel Morse

A

Invented the wired telegraph

52
Q

James Maxwell

A

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

53
Q

Heinrich Hertz

A

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.

54
Q

Reginald Fessenden

A

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.

55
Q

Lee De Forest

A

considered the father of radio broadcasting because of his invention that permitted reliable voice transmissions for both point-to-point communication and broadcasting

56
Q

Radio Act of 1912

A

the first radio legislation passed by Congress, it addressed the problem of amateur radio operators cramming the airwaves

57
Q

Department of Commerce

A

Supervises trade, promotes U.S. business, tourism

58
Q

US Navy and WW1

A

Took over control of all ship radio stations

59
Q

Vaudeville

A

A type of inexpensive variety show that first appeared in the 1870s, often consisting of comic sketches, song-and-dance routines, and magic acts

60
Q

Little Orphan Annie

A

The famous comic strip that entertained children during the Great Depression

61
Q

Amos ‘n’ Andy

A

A radio comedy favorite that knitted the nation together.

62
Q

Charles Coughlin

A

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.

63
Q

Orson Welles

A

An actor, director, producer, writer. Created one of the most renowned radio broadcasts of all time ‘ The War of The Worlds”

64
Q

Todd Storz

A

developed Top 40 radio

65
Q

Paul Nipkow & Boris Rosing

A

Inventors of TV

66
Q

Wired telegraphy

A

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

67
Q

“What hath God wrought”

A

First message sent by wired telegraph

68
Q

The electromagnetic spectrum

A

All of the frequencies or wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation

69
Q

Guglielmo Marconi

A

Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio

70
Q

British Marconi

A

Created by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 the company installed wireless telegraphs on British naval and private commercial ships.

71
Q

American Marconi

A

Created by Guglielmo Marconi in 1899 the company installed wireless telegraphs on American naval and private commercial ships.

72
Q

Alternator-transmitter

A

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.

73
Q

December 24, 1906

A

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

74
Q

United Telegraph Company

A

largest radio communications firm in the United States

75
Q

Wireless Ship Act of 1910

A

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

76
Q

Titanic

A

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.

77
Q

RCA

A

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.

78
Q

David Sarnoff

A

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

79
Q

KDKA

A

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

80
Q

Frank Conrad

A

Established the first commercial broadcast station, KDKA, in 1920

81
Q

Radio Act of 1927

A

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.”

82
Q

Federal Radio Commission

A

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

83
Q

AT&T and radio networks

A

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.

84
Q

NBC Red & NBC Blue

A

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

85
Q

CBS

A

Columbia Broadcasting System

86
Q

Aimee Semple McPherson

A

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

87
Q

Hear it Now

A

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

88
Q

Edward R. Murrow

A

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

89
Q

War of the Worlds

A

1938 was a story on the radio directed by Orson Welles, it was so realistic people thought that aliens were actually invading

90
Q

Top 40 radio

A

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.

91
Q

Rock and roll

A

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

92
Q

Alan Freed

A

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.

93
Q

Payola

A

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

94
Q

Nipkow ring

A

a mechanical television scanner consisting of a rotating disk with small holes upon its periphery through which narrow beams of light pass.

95
Q

Philo Farnsworth

A

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

96
Q

Image dissector

A

slices pictures to send across electromagnetic spectrum

97
Q

Vladimir Zworkin

A

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

98
Q

Iconoscope

A

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

American Media (4 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions