CCI 150 MAIN EXAMINATION 2026 SET QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔What happened during the transition period between radio and TV - ✔✔The great
depression
✔✔Why recorded music became popular on radio/how radio survived TV - ✔✔Radio
became a companion medium
✔✔Radio formats today (three main types) - ✔✔Music
News / talk
Ethnic/ specialty
✔✔What is the FCC and what does it do? Why was it created? Why is broadcast media
regulated by the government when print media is not? (see text for more detail) -
✔✔Federal Communication Commission - controls who can own stations, how powerful
stations are, and where they are on the dial
Before the FCC was created, anyone could get on air and broadcast on air. This
development helped structure the content that individuals were allowed to broadcast.
Also there was not enough airspace for all potential stations
✔✔How technology is changing radio -- what challenges face local radio? - ✔✔Radios
got smaller and more mobile
Radio station owner's willingness to change combined with consumer habits combined
with technology helped its medium
✔✔Understand local vs. syndicated programming (see text for this): - ✔✔When a radio
show is produced for one market but sold for use in other markets (it takes away local
flavors and jobs)
✔✔Timing for radio's presence in smaller towns - ✔✔Clear channel radio: at night
boosted
✔✔Four major networks before television - ✔✔Nbc, abc, cbs, and mutual
✔✔Early radio programming (types of radio shows) - ✔✔Church service, selections,
baseball games, boxing matches
✔✔Source of live music on early radio - ✔✔formal nature (music was LIVE, recorded
music didn't sound good and they didn't need it)phone lines?
They didn't really need recorded music because they had a variety of content
Recorded music also did not sound very good, technology was very primitive then
, Radio could do programming live from a hotel where people were dancing to live music
✔✔"Prime time" for radio before television - ✔✔After dinner but before bed (Late
evening)
Families gathered around to listen
VERY popular radio
✔✔What announcers were like on early radio - ✔✔very formal nature
✔✔What type of programming was NOT on early radio and why - ✔✔
✔✔What is the name of the radio station run by students at UT and where can I find it
on the dial? - ✔✔WUTK 90.3
✔✔Names to know: - ✔✔
✔✔Sarnoff - ✔✔Has a "radio set" on display in NYC
Message about the shipwreck to to the shore before the survivors for the 1st time
News reports picked up the fact that the news broke via radio. Later was a Marconi
employee, vision for radio as a mass medium, created Radio Corporation of America &
redefined radio as a new mass media industry
✔✔Marconi - ✔✔Patented a radio device in Great Britain
Device strong enough to send a message across the English Channel by 1900 across
the Atlantic by 1902
✔✔KDKA - ✔✔The first commercial radio station in America (in Pittsburgh).
✔✔Early history/development of television and how that relates to radio - ✔✔Everyone
wanted "radio with pictures"
Inventor who made it work: Philo Farnsworth
He created television when he was a teenager
✔✔Why did television develop so rapidly? (lecture notes and text) - ✔✔Because of
radio model and with private business funding
✔✔What major historical event postponed the development of television? - ✔✔WWII
✔✔What was "radio with pictures"? - ✔✔Television
✔✔How does broadcast television differ from cable/satellite TV? - ✔✔Broadcasts were
"live TV" (airwaves)
Cable (late 197os depending on location) (actual wires)
Satellite (expensive to begin with, not now) (from space)
SOLUTIONS SCORED A+
✔✔What happened during the transition period between radio and TV - ✔✔The great
depression
✔✔Why recorded music became popular on radio/how radio survived TV - ✔✔Radio
became a companion medium
✔✔Radio formats today (three main types) - ✔✔Music
News / talk
Ethnic/ specialty
✔✔What is the FCC and what does it do? Why was it created? Why is broadcast media
regulated by the government when print media is not? (see text for more detail) -
✔✔Federal Communication Commission - controls who can own stations, how powerful
stations are, and where they are on the dial
Before the FCC was created, anyone could get on air and broadcast on air. This
development helped structure the content that individuals were allowed to broadcast.
Also there was not enough airspace for all potential stations
✔✔How technology is changing radio -- what challenges face local radio? - ✔✔Radios
got smaller and more mobile
Radio station owner's willingness to change combined with consumer habits combined
with technology helped its medium
✔✔Understand local vs. syndicated programming (see text for this): - ✔✔When a radio
show is produced for one market but sold for use in other markets (it takes away local
flavors and jobs)
✔✔Timing for radio's presence in smaller towns - ✔✔Clear channel radio: at night
boosted
✔✔Four major networks before television - ✔✔Nbc, abc, cbs, and mutual
✔✔Early radio programming (types of radio shows) - ✔✔Church service, selections,
baseball games, boxing matches
✔✔Source of live music on early radio - ✔✔formal nature (music was LIVE, recorded
music didn't sound good and they didn't need it)phone lines?
They didn't really need recorded music because they had a variety of content
Recorded music also did not sound very good, technology was very primitive then
, Radio could do programming live from a hotel where people were dancing to live music
✔✔"Prime time" for radio before television - ✔✔After dinner but before bed (Late
evening)
Families gathered around to listen
VERY popular radio
✔✔What announcers were like on early radio - ✔✔very formal nature
✔✔What type of programming was NOT on early radio and why - ✔✔
✔✔What is the name of the radio station run by students at UT and where can I find it
on the dial? - ✔✔WUTK 90.3
✔✔Names to know: - ✔✔
✔✔Sarnoff - ✔✔Has a "radio set" on display in NYC
Message about the shipwreck to to the shore before the survivors for the 1st time
News reports picked up the fact that the news broke via radio. Later was a Marconi
employee, vision for radio as a mass medium, created Radio Corporation of America &
redefined radio as a new mass media industry
✔✔Marconi - ✔✔Patented a radio device in Great Britain
Device strong enough to send a message across the English Channel by 1900 across
the Atlantic by 1902
✔✔KDKA - ✔✔The first commercial radio station in America (in Pittsburgh).
✔✔Early history/development of television and how that relates to radio - ✔✔Everyone
wanted "radio with pictures"
Inventor who made it work: Philo Farnsworth
He created television when he was a teenager
✔✔Why did television develop so rapidly? (lecture notes and text) - ✔✔Because of
radio model and with private business funding
✔✔What major historical event postponed the development of television? - ✔✔WWII
✔✔What was "radio with pictures"? - ✔✔Television
✔✔How does broadcast television differ from cable/satellite TV? - ✔✔Broadcasts were
"live TV" (airwaves)
Cable (late 197os depending on location) (actual wires)
Satellite (expensive to begin with, not now) (from space)
