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MASSCOMS 3rd Quiz
Movies, Radio and Music, and Television and Cable
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| TV/Cable: The first workable device for generating electrical signals suitable for the transmission of a visual bore its inventor’s name. | Nipkow disc |
| TV/Cable: A Russian immigrant living near Pittsburgh, he developed the iconoscope tube, the first practical television camera tube | Vladimir Zworykin |
| TV/Cable: An Idaho schoolboy who moved to San Francisco, where he demonstrated his television system in 1927 | Philo Farnsworth |
| TV/Cable: Among the reasons that the transition to digital broadcasting moved slowly was the unavailability of these | Digital receivers |
| TV/Cable: As a result of the quiz show scandal, networks changed the way they accepted sponsors’ money, moving from single sponsorship for most programs to this type of sale | Spot commercial sales |
| TV/Cable: Lucille Ball’s insistence that she, rather than CBS, own the rights to her television program set the stage for reruns and the creation of this industry | The syndication industry |
| TV/Cable: Detailed measuring of television audiences that takes place four times each year | Sweeps |
| TV/Cable: The percentage of TV homes with sets that are tuned in to a given program at a specific time and are watching that program | Share |
| TV/Cable: The percentage of all TV households in a population that watch a particular program | Rating |
| TV/Cable: The few centralized production, distribution, and decision-making organizations that dominate the business of television | Networks |
| TV/Cable: The current practice of networks ordering as few as two or three episodes of a program | Short ordering |
| TV/Cable: The sale of programs to local stations on a market-to-market basis | Syndication |
| TV/Cable: At cable’s inception, the primary goal of most cable television operations was to do this | Improve the reception of distant signals |
| TV/Cable: The creation of new programs expressly for sale to individual stations in individual markets | First-run syndication |
| TV/Cable: What early cable systems were called | Community Antenna Television (CATV) |
| TV/Cable: A copper-clad aluminum wire encased in plastic foam insulation, covered by an aluminum outer conductor, and then sheathed in plastic | Coaxial cable |
| TV/Cable: The “free” channels provided automatically to all subscribers | Basic Cable |
| Tv/Cable: Advertising accounts for about 90% of the income of broadcast television stations; cable operators make the rest of their income (about 90%) from this | Subscriptions |
| Tv/Cable: The multichannel service, other than cable, that has the greatest number of users | DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) |
| Tv/Cable: In cable’s earliest years, the FCC did this to it | Ignored it |
| Tv/Cable: The rules requiring cable systems to carry the signals of all television stations within a 60-mile radius | Local Carriage Rules |
| Tv/Cable: The franchising authorities for cable television | Cities |
| Tv/Cable: Groups of channels made available to subscribers at varying prices | Tiers |
| Tv/Cable: A service provider, like this one, would NOT be included in a cable system’s basic service | HBO |
| Tv/Cable: Compared to coaxial cable, a fiber-optic cable can carry this much more audio, video, or data information | 600 times as much |
| Tv/Cable: The Communications Act of 1996 eliminated these rules, allowing telephone companies to participate in cable television | Cross-ownership rules |
| Tv/Cable: The largest U.S. DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) provider, with access to more than 11 million television households | DirectTV |
| Tv/Cable: When a cable system functions as a one-stop communications provider, supplying TV, audio, high-speed Internet, phone service, and fax | Bundling |
| Film: Who invented the zoopraxiscope to project slides of people and animals in a way that would give the appearance of motion? | Eadweard Muybridge |
| Film: What physiological phenomenon allows people to see motion in rapidly moving pictures? | Persistence of Vision |
| Film: Which top scientist did Thomas Edison task with improving Eadweard Muybridge's motion picture process? | William Dickson |
| Film: What was the name of the first motion picture camera, developed by William Dickson, which permitted the photographing of 40 frames a second? | The Kinotograph |
| Film: Who developed celluloid roll film in 1887? | Hannibal Goodwin |
| Film: Who built the first motion picture studio in New Jersey? | Thomas Edison |
| Film: What was the Lumière brothers’ most important contribution to the development of motion pictures? | Demonstrating large audiences would sit in a darked room and watch movies projected on a screen |
| Film: From which U.S. inventor did Thomas Edison buy the patent for an advanced film projector? | Thomas Armat |
| Film: What was the first film to utilize editing, intercutting of scenes, and a mobile camera to tell a story? | The Great Train Robbery |
| Film: What was the name of the organization formed by Thomas Edison in 1908 that united 10 companies holding film production patents, often called the Trust? | The Motion Picture Patents Company |
| Film: What was the first all-sound movie, released in 1928? | Lights of New York |
| Film: What was the set of guidelines established by the MPPDA for what was and was not acceptable in movies? | The Motion Picture Production Code |
| Film: What is the term for the control of a film’s production, distribution, and exhibition by a movie studio? | Vertical Integration |
| Film: What 1948 Supreme Court decision outlawed vertical integration? | The Paramount Decision |
| Film: Which type of studios produces the majority of movies that make it to U.S. theater screens? | Independent Studios |
| Film: Which type of studios generates the large bulk of annual ticket sales (80% to 90%)? | Major Studios |
| Film: Which film is said to have started the modern independent film boom? | Easy Rider |
| Film: What is modern filmmaking characterized by reduced risk taking and formulaic movies called? | Blockbuster Mentality |
| Film: What are movies that can be described in one line and are thus easy to promote and market called? | Blockbusters |
| Film: What is the term for the linking of consumer products, such as toys and hamburgers, with popular movies? | Merchandise tie-in |
| Radio/Music: What is online audio file sharing that employs a person-to-person exchange of files while bypassing centralized servers called? | P2P (peer-2-peer) |
| Radio/Music: What refers to freely downloaded software from the Web? | Open Source |
| Radio/Music: What is the deal that describes how the music business operated for decades, where the label underwrites the recording, manufacturing, distribution, and promotion of its artists’ music? | The Standard Distribution Deal |
| Radio/Music: Who do some people consider the “Father of Radio” because he was the first person to send radio waves over long distances? | Guglielmo Marconi |
| Radio/Music: Who do other people consider the “Father of Radio” because he was the first person to send voices and music over the air? | Lee Deforest |
| Radio/Music: What was Marconi’s interest in developing wireless transmission known as? | Point-to-Point Communication |
| Radio/Music: Who developed the liquid barretter in 1903, making possible the radio reception of voices? | Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden |
| Radio/Music: What is the vacuum tube that improved and amplified wireless signals, developed in 1906 by Lee DeForest? | The Audion Tube |
| Radio/Music: What was Lee DeForest’s major contribution to the history of radio, besides the audion tube? | The development and popularization of the use of radio broadcasting |
| Radio/Music: Who developed the first “talking machine,” or sound-recording method, in 1887? | Thomas Edison |
| Radio/Music: What was the primary drawback of the Edison talking machine for sound recording? | Only one recording of a given sound could be made; copies were not possible |
| Radio/Music: What improved sound recording device was developed in 1887 by German immigrant Emile Berliner? | The gramophone |
| Radio/Music: What major advance did Berliner’s gramophone bring to sound recording? | it allowed for the creation of a master, from which copies could be made |
| Radio/Music: How else did Emile Berliner advance sound recording beyond the gramophone? | Through his importation of well-known music from Europe and the development of a sophisticated microphone for recording |
| Radio/Music: What is the name of the now-famous memo David Sarnoff sent in 1916 detailing how to make radio a “household utility”? | The Radio Music Box Memo |
| Radio/Music: Immediately after WWI, what government-sanctioned monopoly was established to run radio, due to concerns about patent fights and foreign control (British Marconi)? | The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) |
| Radio/Music: Which station received history’s first commercial radio license in 1920, and where was it located? | Station KDKA in Pittsburgh |
| Radio/Music: What was the first instance of U.S. government regulation of radio, passed in 1910 after the passengers of the sinking ship Republic were saved? | The Wireless Ship Act of 1910 |
| Radio/Music: What act did the U.S. Congress pass after the sinking of the Titanic, which mandated that wireless operators be licensed? | The Radio Act of 1912 |
| Radio/Music: What P2P software, which allows users to create “swarms” of data as they download and upload content, most fuels the contemporary recording industry’s piracy fears? | BitTorrent |
| Radio/Music: Why was unregulated radio in chaos during the 1920s? | Primarily because income from the sale of receivers declined and station interference and irregular standards of operation turned off listeners |
| Radio/Music: What legislation ensured that the airwaves belonged to the public? | The Radio Act of 1927 |
| Radio/Music: What was the standard of evaluation required by the Radio Act of 1927 when awarding a radio license? | The public interest, convenience, or necessity |
| Radio/Music: What concept states that broadcasters in the United States license use of the airwaves owned by the people? | The Trustee Model of Regulation |
| Radio/Music: What philosophy, which serves as a premise for the trustee model of regulation, states that because broadcast spectrum space is limited, those granted licenses must accept regulation? | The philosophy of spectrum scarcity |
| Radio/Music: How did the radio industry primarily earn income in its earliest days? | Through sale receivers (not advertising) |
| Radio/Music: Where and when did the first radio commercial appear? | On station WEAF in 1922 |
| Radio/Music: What are stations that link themselves to a national broadcast network for the purpose of airing its programs called? | Affiliates |
| Radio/Music: What was the first national radio network, established by RCA in 1926, linking 24 stations? | NBC |
| Radio/Music: When the government ordered NBC to divest one of its networks in 1943, what was the divested network called, and what did it eventually become? | NBC Blue which was sold to Edward Noble and renamed ABC |
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