Radio

Question 1

There are more than - broadcast radio stations in the United States.

Answer 1

15,000

Question 2

the nation’s Number 1 broadcast and online radio service

Answer 2

iHeartRadio

Question 3

the country’s number 2 online radio service

Answer 3

NPR

Question 4

In 2022, online radio streaming service _____ collected $1.58 billion from advertising and $522 million from subscriptions.

Answer 4

Pandora

Question 5

percent of all Americans ages 12 or older say they have listened to broadcast radio in the last week

Answer 5

83

Question 6

percent of all Americans ages 12 or older say they have listened to at least one podcast in the last month

Answer 6

41

Question 7

first demonstrated his electromagnetic telegraph system in America

Answer 7

Samuel F. B. Morse

Question 7

ent the first official message—“What hath God wrought?”—from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., on May 24, 1844.

Answer 7

D.C. Morse

Question 8

sent a message by his new invention, the telephone, to his associate Thomas A. Watson in an adjoining room of their Boston laboratory: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”

Answer 8

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 9

introduces his wireless radio to the United States with a report of the America’s Cup sailboat race.

Answer 9

Guglielmo Marconi

Question 10

transmits the first voice and music broadcast.

Answer 10

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden

Question 11

introduces the Audion tube

Answer 11

Lee de Forest

Question 12

the nation’s first commercial radio station.

Answer 12

Station KDKA in Pittsburgh

Question 13

establishes the Federal Communications Commission to regulate broadcasting.

Answer 13

congress

Question 14

licenses frequency modulation (FM).

Answer 14

Edwin H. Armstrong

Question 15

broadcasts “The War of the Worlds,” demonstrating how quickly broadcast misinformation can cause a public panic

Answer 15

The Mercury Theatre on the Air

Question 16

introduces format radio at KABL in San Francisco.

Answer 16

Gordon McLendon

Question 17

The Manhattan grand jury indicts disc jockey _______ for payola.

Answer 17

Alan Freed

Question 18

encourages unprecedented consolidation in the radio industry.

Answer 18

the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Question 18

created as an alternative to commercial radio.

Answer 18

public radio