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Recording Industry Flashcards

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Functions of recording industry

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Entertainment and cultural transmission

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Phonograph

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Thomas Edison. Talking machine in 1877. Used tinfoil

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Graphophone

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Developed by Alexander graham bell and Charles Tainter. Used beeswax

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Gramophone

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Emile Berliner used a flat disc to record sound rather than a cylinder

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Microphone

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Gathers sound energy and converts it to electrical energy with similar wave characteristics

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Rpms

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Vinyl 33.5

Shellac 78

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Major labels

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  1. Universal music group controls 25% of world market
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Independent labels

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66% of music. 20% of sales

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Payola

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Payments under the table. Less diversity

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Long tail

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Try to sell a greater variety of items but selling fewer of each item

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Digital rights management

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Protect copyrighted works from being illegally copied

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Broadcasting

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From agriculture. Broadcasting messages through wireless means to multiple locations to distribute information widely. Also moving pictures as well as audio via wireless technology. Transmitter sends messages over a part of the electromagnetic spectrum to a receiver or antenna

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Functions of broadcasting

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Entertainment, surveillance

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Heinrich Hertz

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Electromagnetic waves. Demonstrated the existence of radio waves. The measurement unit of electromagnetic frequencies was named Hertz

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Granville T Woods

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1887 railway telegraphy

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Guglielmo Marconj

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1889 invented radio telegraphy “wireless” real time transmission of audio

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Reginald a. Fessenden

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Produced continuous waves

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Ernst Alexanderson

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First to build a working high frequency continuous wave machine capable of transmitting a radio broadcast of the human voice and other sounds

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Lee de Forest

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Father of radio

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Edwin Howard Armstrong

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Invented fm (frequency modulation) radio

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Radio Act of 1927

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Created the Federal Radio Commission which was established to make regulations. Companies using airwaves had a duty to act responsibly toward the public

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Telecommunications act of 1996

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These rules put no limit on the number or radio stations that can be owned or controlled by a single entity

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Radio industry today

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20th century = specialization

Podcasts, day parts, satellite radio

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Day parts

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A segment of time used by radio and tv program planners to decide who the primary audience is during that time of day or night

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