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Famour for the phrases "Goodnight and good luck" and "This is London"
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| 1894 Marconi Developed the wireless form of it |
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| 1844 Developed non wireless form of telegraph |
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| started sending voice signals over radio in 1901 |
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1935 A combo of technologies that allowed recordings to reproduce music more accurately with higher high notes and deeper base than was possible with previous recording technologies.
AKA refinement of sounds quality |
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| 1915 David Sarnoff, worked for Marconi wrote this. it outlines radio's potential as a popular mass medium, important because it can change the social fabric of the world |
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Comprised of 4 companies
1. General Electric
2. AT&T
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4. United Fruit Company
Developed in WWI, first company to take on the radio music box memo. |
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| FCC (Federal Communications Committee) |
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Gives licenses to radio companies
FCC=government
grants applications for radio |
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| first to sell commercials |
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| Only K radio east of Mississippi. Aired first religious program |
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| First sports broadcast done |
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| 1921 heavyweight fight between Dempsey and Carpenter |
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| Creator and president of NBC created in 1926 |
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| red network and blue network each with different kinds of programming, blue network later became ABC |
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| provides common programming to a large group of broadcast stations. Solved the problem of radio companies not having enough time or imagination for 24 hour shows. |
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| Started CBS, president of CBS/CBS news. Stayed with CBS from radio to TV |
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Early producer for CBS, major role in creating newscast
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| Senator of Minnesota who created the black list for communists |
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| order of networks created |
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| 1943 during WWII, created from NBC's blue network |
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| it was a medium for music, mostly live playing |
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| recordings by popular black musicians |
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| music that people play and sing for one another in the home or other social settings; before radio this was the only means of hearing music |
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| a style of music popularized on radio that combined white hillbilly and black rhythm and blues |
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| Elvis Presley and Churck Berry |
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| The white and the black people who were the rock and roll beginners of their time |
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| 2 previously segregated types of music were coming together and becoming a new musical form |
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| Key feature of the birth of rock n roll |
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| Red Hot and Blue, played R&B records |
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| Popular radio show by Dewey Phillips on WHBQ that quickly became very popular |
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| developed by RCA in 1940, it had high quality sound but only 4 minutes of music |
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| introduced by Columbia records in 1948, 23 minutes of high quality music on both sides of the disk |
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| Digital recording medium introduced in the 1980's can hold about 70 minutes of digitally recorded music |
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Payoffs to DJ's in the form of money or gifts to get them to play a particular record
AKA a bribe |
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1960's British' take on classic American rock n roll, blues and R&B.
ie: the beatles |
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| an album by a solo artist or group of related songs on common themes. |
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| the person who puts together the right mix of songs, song writers, technicians, and performers to create and album |
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| comedic personalities and radio form of sitcoms |
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| 2 types of comedy on radio |
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| advertisers have control over the program |
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| Peak of Radio news was... |
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news collection service, commanded the news, people pay the wire services for their news
ie: associated press |
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| National public radio, various news formats, news radio station, political/news talk show |
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| First broadcaster to describe discovery of one of the concentration camps, created 25 person staff team in Europe |
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| When tv was created and began to bring more live news to people, radio went to this format in the 50's |
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| brought the death to the golden age of radio |
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| radio program played during people's drive to work consisted of news, weather, time, traffic, and sports |
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| Music became main format, became locally driven, allowed advertisers to target certain audiences |
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| better quality, more music, and fewer commercials, lessened the importance of a DJ |
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| started news talk which then expanded to sports talk |
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| An audio program produced as an MP3 compressed music file, it can be listened to online at the listeners convenience or downloaded to a computer or MP3 player, can sometimes contain video |
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1. Country
2. news/talk/info
3. adult contemporary
4. Pop contemporary hit radio (Top 40)
5. Classic rock |
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| Top 5 popular radio formats |
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| Community antenna television |
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| an early form of cable television used to distribute broadcast channels in communities with poor television reception |
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| 1947, NBC, been on for 60 years |
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| 1947, started as a Saturday morning TV show then became 5 days a week, Buffalo Bob Smith was the creator, Claire Bell the clown, Fineaus T Bluster was the mayor, Princess Summer-fall-winter-spring |
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| Roy Rorgers and Wild Bill Hickock |
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| Best marketers, wondeful world of Disney and mickey mouse club |
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radio to TV shows, "variety show,"
EX: Ed Sullivan show, Texaco star hour |
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| THe host who had a heart attack live |
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| Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allan, I love Lucy |
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| first TV show to film in LA |
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| First Successful sitcom ever |
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| first movie on TV in 1956 |
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| Invented in 1950's, video tape machine that allows viewers to make permanent copies of TV shows |
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| Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) |
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| A low-earth-orbit satellite that provides TV programming via a small, satellite antenna; a competitor to cable TV |
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HDTV is wide screen and it has good picture and sound standard can broadcast up to 6 channels on the same frequency but the quality isn't as good |
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HDTV vs Standard digital TV |
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| first service to provide programming |
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Atlana Braves baseball team WTCG WTBS CNN TNT |
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| Public Broadcasting System (PBS) |
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| a non profit broadcast network that provides a wide range of public service and educational programs which is funded by the government, private industry underwriting, and viewer support. |
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| Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 |
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| coorporation of public broadcasting must provide funds for a wide range of non commerical programs, including public service and education programs. |
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| major provider of viewership data, aka ratings; keeps track of the shows watched in 9,000 homes across the US |
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| an electronic box used by the ratings company Nielsen Media Research to record which TV shows people watch. |
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| the four times during the year the Nielsen Media Research measures the size of individual TV station audiences |
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| the percentage of the total potential TV audience actually watching a particular show. one rating point indicates an audience of 1 million viewers. |
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| the percentage of TV sets actually in use that are turned into a particular show. |
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| most prominent shows featuring diverse casts. |
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| a spanish-language broadcast network; 5th largest network |
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| local cable TV channels that air public affairs programming and other locally produced shows. |
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| First presidential debate dominated by TV; JFK v Nixon |
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| JFK assasination covered wall to wall for 3 days by the Big Three, first time TV surpassed newspaper as the primary source of news |
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| NBC became the first station in all color |
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| TV covered first step on the moon and Sesame Street on PBS |
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| TV ads went from 60 seconds to 30 seconds |
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Start of watergate committee
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| WTBS Ted Turner's station was launched |
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| Ted Turner launched the first 24 news channel ever |
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MTV was launched, start of music videos
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OJ Simpson trial, most actively watched public event
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