| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Lee Defrost | Wireless Telephony |
| Reginald Fessenden | Started the First Voice Broadcast |
| Samuel Morse | Telegraph, Morse Code |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Developed the first telephone |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Wireless telegraphy |
| Telegraph | precursor of radio technology, invented in the 1840 |
| Morse Code | series of dots and dashes that stood for letters in the alphabet. |
| Electromagnetic Waves | invisible electronic impulses similar to visible light |
| Radio Waves | harnessed so that signals could be sent from a transmission point obtained at a reception. |
| James Maxwell | came up with the idea of Electromagnetic waves |
| Heinrich Hertz | first recorded transmission and reception of radio waves. |
| Broadcasting | transmission of radio waves |
| Narrowcasting | person to person communication, like the telegraph or telephone |
| Radio Act of 1912 | enacted to response of Titanic, standardized radio procedures in a crisis |
| KDKA | The first licensed radio station, founded in1920, located in Pittsburgh |
| WEAF | The first radio station to sell advertising- operated as a "toll" station |
| Toll Broadcasting | selling advertisements |
| Network | a group of cast stations that share programming produced at a central location |
| Transistors | could receive and amplify radio signals |
| Format Radio | management rather than Deejays controlled program each other |
| Rotation | playing the top songs on the radio throughout the day |
| Payola | the practice by which record promoters paid dj's to play particular records |
| Pay-for-Play | up front payments from record companies to radio stations to play certain songs specific number of times |
| Drive Time | between 6-9am and 4-7pm, when people commute from work or school |
| Urban | gets a variety of African American listeners in primary cities |
| Telecommunication Act of 1996 | FCC eliminated most ownership restrictions on the radio |
| Pod Casting | converged media that "marries" Ipod and broadcasting |
| FM | Frequency Modulation |
| AM | Amplitude Modulation |
| HD Digital Radio Transmission | broadcasters can multicast additional digital signals, within their traditional analog frequency |
| Radio Program Director | Schedules every minute of air time. |
| Demographics | who is the audience, population characteristics by behaviors |
| Media Consolidation | stations own by large company or other stations |
| Voice Tracking | when announcers can preferred their voices for Radio use |
| Log | schedule everything on the radio that is suppose to be played at a certain time |
| Baby Boomers | appeals to a certain demographic/audience |
| Budget Meeting | When people meet to go over the major stories of the day. |
| Jayne Mansfield | Model/actress that rivaled Marilyn Monroe |
| Anthologies | a story told in one episode, could have a different show every week |
| Elite | most articulate,talented, the "cream of the crop" |
| Mary Martin | Never wanted to do TV, but appeared on Peter Pan as a special |
| Importance of "I Love Lucy" | shot on film to be edited, to show best parts, most shows were live, shot in LA instead of NY. |
| Situation Comedy | performer play character that returns week after week |
| Sketch Comedy | characters change to play multiple characters ex: Saturday Night Live, In Living Color |
| Series Form | self contained stories w/ episodes ex: Law and Order or CSI |
| Serial Form | Open-ended storyline that continue across several episodes ex: Soap Operas |
| Scanning Disk | seperated pics into light -> electronic lines |
| VHF | (Very High Frequency) band for black and white TV. |
| UHF | (Ultra High Frequency) |
| Affiliate stations | independently owned stations that sign contracts with a network and carry its own program |
| Kinescope | a process a camera recorded a live TV show off a studio monitor |
| Domestic Comedy | in which characters and settings are usually more important than complicated predicaments |
| Anthology Drama | which brought live dramatic theater to TV, entertained and often challenged audiences, ex: Tyler Perry Shows |
| Chapter Shows | self contained stories that feature a problem or series of conflict |
| Stripped | reruns of old episodes that are shown 5 days a week |
| Penetration | how many households have cable service |
| Narrowcasting | cable channels illustrate |
| Niche Marketing | find a particular demographic |
| Franchise Agreement | each municipality enters a cable provider, ex: LHU w/ comcast |
| Public Access Channels | when the cable company provides the Municipality with channels |
| "Must Carry Rules" | the cable company allocate channels to local broadcast stations |
| News Cycle | news is on 24/7, ex:CNN or ESPN News for Sports |
| Media Convergence | cable company offers a variety of stuff |
| Multiple System Operators (MSO) | cooperation that own most cable systems in U.S. |
| Ratings | % of households turned to a certain sampled program to all households |
| Direct Broadcast Satellite | service like DirecTV capture a bigger part of the market |
| CATV | Community Antennae Television, contains 12 channels |
| Access Channels | FCC rules requires cable systems to carry their own original programming |
| Leased Channels | citizen could buy time on channels and produce longer programs |
| Commons Carriers | services that don't get involved in channel content. |
| Retransmission consent | broadcast could now ask cable companies for fees to carry their channels |
| Basic Cable | system that includes 36-72 channel lineup composed of local broadcast signals. |
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