Mass Comm Final

Question 1

What three TV Broadcasting companies were called the big 3?

Answer 1

NBC, CBS, ABC

Question 2

What did AFI rate the top movie of all time

Answer 2

Citizen Kane

Question 3

What is Emile Berline known for?

Answer 3

gramophone and vibration sensitive recording

Question 4

What did David Sarnoff invent (besides radio)?

Answer 4

television (radio with pictures)

Question 5

What was time shifting?

Answer 5

ability to replay videos and choose when to watch them

Question 6

What creation was Tim Lee known for?

Answer 6

WWW (world wide web)

Question 7

Who was Vint Cerf

Answer 7

known as the father of internet

Question 8

Who was Edwin Murrow?

Answer 8

radio news broadcaster during WW2

Question 9

What did the lumiere brothers create?

Answer 9

motion picture projector

Question 10

Who was Carol Burnett?

Answer 10

TV sketch comedian

Question 11

What was ARPA?

Answer 11

military internet

Question 12

What did Vladimir Zworykin invent?

Answer 12

iconoscope

Question 13

What role did Thomas Edison play in sound recording?

Answer 13

inventor of phonograph (used to play sound)

Question 14

Who was Milton Berle?

Answer 14

comedian and actor, host of NBC’s Texaco Star theater, first major television star

Question 15

What are shield laws?

Answer 15

laws that protect reporters’ right to not testify certain information.

Question 16

Were Edison’s first recordings on disks or cylinders?

Answer 16

cylinders