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Introduction to Broadcasting Midterm

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Who invented the audio tube?
Lee Deforest
What was the first radio station?
KDKA in Pittsburgh
Name a syndicated program
Jeopardy, Star Wars: Next Generation, pretty much any game show
Why was cable television necessary?
The signal couldn't pass through mountains or tall buildings, so they needed to get the signal to people on the other side
FDR communicated to the country through his _________ ______.
Fireside chats
The philosophy of American broadcasting: to serve the public ________, _____________, and ___________.
Interest, convenience, and necessity
Who created NBC?.
Sarnoff
The second network was called __________.
CBS
Radio stations decreased during the great depression. True or False?
False
The transistor revolutionized radio and television in the late 1950s. True or False?
True
Frequency is expressed in terms of cycles per second. True or false?
True
When Fox broadcasting first started it's network service, what program made Fox popular?
Married with Children
A franchise agreement is with a cable company and the _________.
city
Discuss an audio console.
heart of the studio. everything else goes through the board to make it work.
FM signals don't travel as far as AM signals. True or False?
True; AM signals have more range
What's a skywave?
The ionosphere rises at night, meaning the AM signal can travel farther by bouncing off of it
What government body can modify the Communications Act?
Congress
The Chairperson of the FCC is of the party in power. True or False?
True
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