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Q: Which statement indicates why radio typically has its biggest audiences between 6 A.M and 9 A.M. and between 4 P.M. and 7 P.M.?A. Many people listen to the radio as they drive to and from work.B. The funniest shows are on at those times.C. The lucrative teenage audience listens most during those times.D. Radio stations want it to be that way.E. None of the above options is correct.
Q: When the radio industry was forced to reorganize in the 1950s, which of the following was not among the changes made?A. A turn to format-driven radioB. A greater dependence on recorded musicC. Featuring top deejays during prime driving periodsD. A move to reach national audiencesE. The repeated playing of top songs
Q: Which of the following best sums up the advantages and disadvantages of FM radio versus AM?A. FM included less static, had better sound fidelity, but traveled for shorter distances.B. FM included less static, could travel longer distances, but had uneven results with pitch.C. FM was an older, cheaper technology, but did better with stereo sound.D. FM was much better suited to the spoken voice because music sounded clearer on AM.E. None of the above options is correct.
Q: Prior to the 1950s and 1960s, most radio listening occurred in the home because__________ .A. people didn"t have televisions yetB. radio sets before the invention of transistors used bulky and delicate vacuum tubesC. automobiles weren"t really widespread yet so most people couldn"t leave homeD. radio programs used to be longer and required people's undivided attentionE. None of the above options is correct.
Q: The transistor made radio receivers__________ .A. portableB. expensiveC. largerD. stereophonicE. disposable
Q: Which of the following technologies did not cause major changes in the radio industry?A. Television B. The Internet C. The transistorD. FM transmitters E. The telegraph
Q: Why did the public find it easy to believe that Orson Welles's broadcast of War of the Worlds was a real event?A. Newspapers also printed the story as true.B. It was done in the style of a real news broadcast.C. A sizable meteor really did hit New Jersey that day.D. The broadcast was never identified as fiction or a dramatization.E. All of the options are correct.
Q: Which radio program panicked listeners on Halloween eve in 1938? A. The Shadow B. The Green Hornet C. Amos "n" Andy D. War of the Worlds E. None of the above options is correct.
Q: What time period is considered the "golden age" of radio?A. 1960sB. Early 1900sC. 1920s and 1930s D. 1890sE. 1990s
Q: With the Federal Communications Act of 1934, the Federal Radio Commission became the__________A. Wireless Communication CommissionB. National Broadcasting CompanyC. Federal Communications CommissionD. Radio Corporation of AmericaE. None of the above options is correct.
Q: The act that first emphasized that broadcasters did not own their channels but were granted licenses provided they operated in the "public interest, convenience, or necessity" was the__________A. Federal Communications Act of 1934B. Radio Act of 1912C. Radio Act of 1927D. 1932 revocation of RCA's monopoly statusE. None of the above options is correct.
Q: What established the Federal Radio Commission?A. The Radio Act of 1912B. The Radio Act of 1919C. The Radio Act of 1927 D. The Radio Act of 1934E. None of the above options is correct.
Q: As a new network, CBS was able to compete with NBC by __________.A. charging affiliates less for its programsB. paying affiliates to broadcast its programsC. being the first network to broadcast in high fidelityD. advertising its programs on billboardsE. being the first to offer musical programs and quiz shows
Q: In the late 1920s, which of the following was not a part owner of the National Broadcasting Company?A. RCAB. General ElectricC. WestinghouseD. CBSE. All of the companies were owners of the National Broadcasting Company.
Q: Which company became the first to sell ads on the radio?A. American MarconiB. AT&T C. NBCD. RCAE. Westinghouse
Q: Who set up a crude radio station above his Pittsburgh garage in 1916?A. Edwin H. ArmstrongB. David SarnoffC. Ethan ZuckermanD. Rush Limbaugh E. Frank Conrad
Q: What three companies controlled most of RCA when it was first a government-approved commercial monopoly in the early 1920s? A. NBC, GE, United Fruit B. AT&T, GE, Westinghouse C. GE, AT&T, American Marconi D. ABC, NBC, CBS E. AT&T, Clear Channel, CBS
Q: Why were AT&T and GE able to undercut Marconi's influence with the U.S. Navy, even though Marconi was the best company?A. The U.S. Navy wanted to use government-owned companies over private companies.B. The U.S. Navy was concerned about a foreign-controlled company having so much power over their communications.C. The U.S.Navy wishedto promote international relations by using foreign companies.D. The U.S. Navy was dissatisfied with the way American Marconi was being run.E. None of the above options is correct.
Q: The Radio Corporation of America bought which of the following companies?A. British MarconiB. American Marconi C. AT&TD. WestinghouseE. WNBC
Q: Which event led to the Radio Act of 1912 (which required most large ships to carry wireless technology)?A. Fessenden's 1906 Christmas Eve transmissionB. The sinking of the Titanic C. David Sarnoff's weddingD. Lee De Forest's Eiffel Tower broadcastE. Marconi's founding of American Marconi
Q: The term broadcasting was originally used in__________ .A. farmingB. constructionC. commercial fishingD. carpentryE. manufacturing
Q: Reginald Fessenden is credited with making the first__________ , on Christmas Eve in 1906.A. wireless telegraphB. distress call from a sinking ocean linerC. on-air paid advertisementD. voice broadcastE. use of Morse code
Q: Which statement best indicates how inventors and government offices were able to establish who was responsible for early developments in radio technology?A. Patents clearly indicate who invented what piece of technology first. B. Only Italians and Americans were interested in early broadcasting.C. Inventors respected other inventors out of a sense of professional courtesy.D. The early days of radio were heavily regulated, and therefore clearly documented, by government officials.E. Simultaneous and independent discoveries, along with competing claims for patents, often had inventors going to court over their inventions.
Q: The __________was important to radio technology because it allowed radio signals to be amplified.A. HertzB. Audion vacuum tubeC. cathode ray tubeD. telephonyE. electromagnetic wave
Q: The very earliest uses of Marconi's wireless radio were for__________ .A. military and commercial shippingB. gossip and shippingC. advertising and the militaryD. entertainment and adsE. playing rock-and-roll records
Q: The telegraph was useless as a means of communicating between ships at sea or between ships and the shore because__________ .A. its signal was too weak to travel across bodies of waterB. the telegraph signal was distorted by the electromagnetic spectrumC. telegraph equipment was too cumbersome to be used aboard shipsD. the telegraph required a wire cable connecting the sending and receiving stationsE. All of the options are correct.
Q: The rise of pirate micropower radio stations in the United States in the 1990s led the federal government to approve a new class of noncommercial low-power FM radio stations in 2000.
Q: The nation's largest broadcast group owns more than eight hundred radio stations.
Q: The nation's largest radio network is owned by telephone giant AT&T.
Q: Clear Channel radio stations can be heard throughout most of the United States.
Q: In the late 1990s, hundreds of radio stations shifted from individual to chain ownership.
Q: Radio generates its largest profits by selling big national ads.
Q: The 1996 Telecommunications Act decreased the number of broadcast stations a single person or corporation can own.
Q: The 1996 Telecommunications Act set off an unprecedented consolidation in radio station ownership.
Q: Podcasting and Internet radio aren"t very portable because you need a computer to use them.
Q: Internet radio stations are those that either stream or simulcast a version of their on-air signal over the Web, or create a station exclusive to the Internet.
Q: HD radio is a digital technology that enables broadcasters to multicast within an analog frequency.
Q: Contemporary public (noncommercial) radio mostly follows a mixed rather than a specified format.
Q: Politicians have threatened to cut government funding for public broadcasting.
Q: In 1948, the FCC approved 10-watt FM stations, allowing more people to participate in radio.
Q: By law, nonprofit broadcasters are allocated 25 percent of all the broadcast frequencies in the United States today.
Q: Country is the most popular radio format today.
Q: The vast majority of the top radio talk-show hosts promote conservative viewpoints.
Q: The Top 40 format refers to the forty most popular hits in a given week as measured by record sales.
Q: FM radio was an immediate commercial success and made its inventor a rich and happy man.
Q: Edwin H. Armstrong developed AM radio.
Q: The first person to discover and develop FM radio in the 1920s and the 1930s was David Sarnoff of RCA.
Q: RCA delayed the deployment of FM radio for many decades because it was more concerned with the development of television.
Q: By the 1960s, most radio listening was done outside the home.
Q: The first transistor radio was marketed by Texas Instruments in 1953.
Q: AM is better than FM for playing music because of its greater clarity and fidelity.
Q: The program Amos "n" Andy started on Chicago radio in 1945.
Q: Throughout radio's early historyfrom the 1920s through the 1940sadvertisers exercised very little control over program content.
Q: Radio soap operas got their name because they were a "clean" form of entertainment that lived up to the social and moral codes of the time.
Q: With the Communications Act of 1934, the Federal Communications Commission officially became the Federal Radio Commission.
Q: In the 1940s, NBC willingly sold its Blue network because it was losing money.
Q: The Radio Act of 1927 created the Radio Corporation of America.
Q: Under the Radio Act of 1927, broadcasters were allowed to own their radio channels.
Q: The aim of early radio networks such as CBS and NBC was to serve the public interest.
Q: In the 1920s, CBS operated two radio networks, CBS-Red and CBS-Blue.
Q: Network radio helped modernize America by deemphasizing local in favor of national programs.
Q: During the 1920s, the United States was the only country that allowed commercial interests to control broadcasting.
Q: The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed after World War I to give the United States an early worldwide monopoly over radio broadcasting.
Q: Because of the role of the navy in early broadcast history, the United States today has a national broadcasting system both controlled and supervised by the government.
Q: The American Marconi Company had trouble developing as a business after World War I in part because the U.S. Navy and U.S. commercial interests did not want a foreigner-controlled company wielding so much power in the field of emergent radio technologies.
Q: Congress passed the Radio Act of 1912 in response to the sinking of the British ocean liner Titanic.
Q: The Titanic sank in 1912, resulting in the loss of about fifteen hundred lives; had it not been for radio, seven hundred additional lives would have been lost.
Q: In its entrepreneurial phase, radio was marketed as a ship-to-shore communication device.
Q: The word broadcasting derives from the steel industry, in part because KDKA in Pittsburgh was one of the first stations to begin using radio as a mass medium.
Q: Inventor Lee De Forest developed a vacuum tube capable of detecting and amplifying radio signals.
Q: During his lifetime, Nikola Tesla received much recognition for his wireless inventions.
Q: Alexander Popov was a Russian academic whose experiments in wireless communication occurred at roughly the same time as Marconi's.
Q: Guglielmo Marconi envisioned wireless telegraphy only as point-to-point communication and not as a one-to-many mass medium.
Q: Guglielmo Marconi is credited with creating FM radio.
Q: Competition among media meant that with the arrival of television, radio became obsolete.
Q: A. Lee De ForestB. David SarnoffC. Guglielmo Marconi D. Reginald Fessenden E. Edwin H. Armstrong1) Developed FM radio2) Former head of NBC3) Developed wireless telegraphy4) First to send voice through the airwaves5) Developed Audion, or triode, vacuum tube
Q: __________is the company that owns the largest number of radio stations in the United States.
Q: The practice of record promoters paying deejays or programmers to play particular songs is called__________.
Q: __________is the practice of making audio files available for download over the Internet.
Q: __________could refer to an online simulcast of a traditional radio station or to a service designed especially for this use.
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