Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

SMAD 101 > SMAD 101: Exam 3 > Flashcards

SMAD 101: Exam 3 Flashcards

(94 cards)

Start Studying
1
Q

What did Bell change on Edison’s phonograph?

A

replaced tin with beeswax cylinders & put loose stylus so it goes across wax easier -> graphophone

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

What did Emile Berliner create?

A

Gramophone -> got rid of cylinders in graphophone - used flat shellac discs

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

What is the Victrola?

A

Victor Recording Industry + RCA –> attatched a motor to gramophone

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

William Paley

A

got money from cigar market and used it to start CBS (Columbia Broadcast System)

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

Early Recording Industry: Recording Formats

A

78 RPMs & 33 1/3 RPMs (long-play records)

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

Define RIAA

A

Record Institution Association of America - when you download stuff illegally

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

Music Business: Big 4 Labels

A

Sony, BMG, Vivendi/Universal, Warner Bros.

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

Define PMRC

A

Parent’s Music Resource Center - created by Tipper Gore

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

Define Sonny Bono Extension Act of 1988

A

Change copyright law from life +50 to life +70

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

Define the Disney Law

A

aka Home Recording Act (1990) - If you bought music, you can make ONE duplicate

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

Who is Tesla?

A

“Father of Radio” - says we need alternating currents

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

Who is Marconi?

A

Developed wireless telegraphy - dots and dashes you see in old movies

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

Who is Crippen?

A

First individual to be caught by radio

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

Who is Lee de Fores?

A

Created the Audion Tube: vacuum tube necessary for radio waves (Voice over airways)

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

Who is Fessenden?

A

sent out first radio program on Christmas -> developed alternator

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

Who is Edwin Armstrong?

A

Father of FM radio; engineer; worked for RCA and Sarnoff

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

Who is David Sarnoff?

A

said he heard Titanic distress signal; CEO; $$

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

What are the 3 Key factors to radio development?

A
  1. Corporations (more ppl working on 1 thing)
  2. Experimenters (Getting into a lab)
  3. Gov’t (protecting radio stations)
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Who was the first radio station?

A

KDKA out of Pittsburgh

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

Who was Edward Admaro?

A

First modern journalist

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

Who claimed to hear the Titanic?

A

Sarnoff? CEO NOT INVENTOR

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

RCA - Radio Corporation of America - later turns into what?

A

NBC

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

Define Toll Broadcasting

A

AT&T used lines for radio -> companies paid them to use these lines – WJZ (RCA) ultimately used NO lines

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

What is an O&O?

A

Owned and operated - independently

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
How does RCA grow?
HORIZONTAL - by buying smaller networks
26
What was the issue with ASCAP?
American Society of Composers and Publishers - Licensing - who do you pay to broadcast: author / publisher
27
1927 Radio Act
established FRC - Federal Radio Commissions
28
1934 Communications Act
established FCC - Federal Communications Commission - still operates today under Julius Genachowski
29
1943 NBC trade restraint
NBC has 2 networks: red and blue --> sells blue to ABC
30
Idea behind "Soap Opera"
advertisers were soap companies
31
Edward R. Murrow
Radio News - made you feel like you were there during WW2
32
AM Radio
Amplitude Modulation - "Bounce radio signal" --> bounced off ionosphere
33
who created FM?
Frequency Modulation - Edwin H. Armstrong
34
FM Radio
You get best signal when you're line in sight - STRAIGHT signal path - NO bounce
35
BMI
Broadcast Music Industry
36
Alan Freed
Moondog - shows idea of a radio DJ's influence - fired due to payola (DJ plays certain song b/c they're paid - coins term rock & roll
37
What is so important about music on the radio?
It was best form of competition against TV
38
What's the most profitable music genre on radio?
country/western
39
Biggest spikes in radio listening?
During drive hours
40
Who is now the audience of radio?
Older audience -> now ads need to target older folks | - Clear channel
41
Why are satellites governed differently?
We PAY to listen where AM/FM is free | Ex. Howard Stern
42
IBOC
In Band on Channel (better) BUT we went with DAB
43
1965 Non-Duplication Rule
Says you can't duplicate >50% of your sister stations program -- FCC says "interests, necessity, convenience"
44
Define Convergence
pulling all forms of technology into one medium (EX. iPad)
45
define digital divide
those that HAVE access to technology and those who don't
46
Telecom Act of 1996
allows more merging -> larger companies can dominate -> you can own up to 35% of national audience (now its 39%)
47
3 parts of a cable system
- head (master antennae @ highest point - trunk (cable running from the head) - drop (comes off line of trunk and into house
48
Must-Carry Rule
Cable must carry local TV stations on your cable
49
what is CATV?
cable tv
50
define syndex syndication exclusivity
Cable/over the air broadcasting having exclusive rights to a program EX. Monday Night Football on ESPN ONLY
51
Anti-Leap Frog Rule
Cable provider A cannot LEAP over cable provider B, legally
52
cable delivery: define TVRO
cable delivery: television recieve only
53
cable delivery: SMATV
satellite master antennae TV --> perfect delivery 4 apartment complexes
54
cable delivery: DBS
direct broadcast satellite EX. dish network
55
define Fiber Optics
hundreds of fiber optic lines in a small cable that carries thousands more data
56
"Narrowcasting"
Within cable - aim to be more specific EX. home-cooking, SciFy
57
Cable Narrowcasting: PEG
Public education and gov't channels
58
Cable Narrowcasting: Superstations
use satellite technology
59
Cable Narrowcasting: Pay-Per-View Events
biggest revenue
60
When was the first computer created?
1946 - UPENN
61
Eniac
early computer -> used vacuum tubes -> heat created
62
"Tyranny of Wires"
Eniac Computer systems - we had 2 connect many tubes to make the thing possible -> BUT NASA solves it
63
Who created Eniac?
Eckert and Mauchly --> but they didn't make $$
64
Who was the first to buy computers?
U.S Census Bureau
65
define UNIVAC
universal computers
66
What tied Eckert and Mauchly down?
McCarthyism -> gov't saw them as having communist ties -> B/C Mauchly had gone 2 scientific meetings with some people linked 2 commis
67
Babbage
FIRST GENERATION created first demonstration of a computer --> development of Vacuum tubes
68
John Atanasoff
FIRST GENERATION - IOWA ST. - designed first computer that COURT recognized
69
ENIAC, UNIVAC, IBM 650
apart of first generation
70
which first generation system used punch card technology?
IBM
71
Transistors
SECOND GENERATION - allowed us to shrink space needed -> NASA need 2 shrink computer 2 stick in a space capsule to calcul8 re-entry --> MOST RESPONSIBLE for second generation
72
When did the use of integrated circuits come about?
THIRD GENERATION
73
FOURTH GENERATION
graphic user interface - mathematical functioning
74
define VLSI
FOURTH GENERATION - very large scale integration chips - carry-out more operations
75
define parallel computing
FIFTH GENERATION - more than one thing done at a time
76
define artificial intelligence
SIXTH GENERATION - robots as aliens
77
How did government stop IBM from getting too big in 1932
got rid of punch card system -> GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE -> fourth generation
78
define LAN
your e-mail address
79
define WAN
GMail, Hotmail, etc.
80
define ARPANET
pre-internet
81
define VideoTex service
send video through lines, resurrected, video plays
82
define TCP
Transmission Control Protocol/ / International Protocol --> setting your JMU e-mail 2 access library
83
define FTP
File Transfer Protocol - Permission to download a file
84
define Telnet
"dumb terminal" -> pulls up addresses and #s -> electronic phone book
85
define USENET
basic bulletin board - direct connection
86
Elisha Gray
developed telephone BUT Bell won the patent
87
King Commitment
allows AT&T to lease phones to customers
88
Universal Service
AT&T would provide everyone has access to phone by means of an emergency
89
Telephone: Define MFJ
Modified Final Judgement - courts break up AT&Ts monoploy -> creates RBOC - Regionabl Bell Operating Companies
90
define LATA
your local area code
91
What allows you to be charged long-distance?
Telecom Act
92
define intelligence network
you input data and get a result/change
93
Packet Switching
redundant words are broken and spread apart then pieced back together so its face
94
What allows packet switching to occur?
DSL

SMAD 101 (6 decks)

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