History A Level AQA: Modern British History: Social and Cultural Change Ch.7 questions and answers-2024

what grew in the 1960s? - Correct Answer In the 1960s the mass media grew in size and type describe the expansion of television? - Correct Answer Television became available everywhere, which started to create a uniformity of culture and ended the isolation of distant communities how was the cinema overtaken in popularity in the 1960s? - Correct Answer Televisions rapidly supplanted the cinema as a means of entertainment use evidence to show that televisions were becoming available to more people in the 1960s than before? - Correct Answer Growth in the number of television licences, 1950 - 344,,504,,470,,253,000 1975, 17,701,000 how many people owned a tv by 1961? - Correct Answer By 1961 75% of the population had a tv licence in their home and by 1971 it was 91% who became director general of the BBC? - Correct Answer hugh Greene when did greene become director general of the BBC? - Correct Answer 1960 what did greene aim to do with the BBC? - Correct Answer , he set out to transform it describe how the BBC was changed throughout the 60s? - Correct Answer Money was diverted from radio to television, guidelines on nudity and swearing were revised, a new style of news presentation and more popular programmes were commissioned what types of programmes did greene introduce? - Correct Answer He introduced new programming such as satire, realistic drama such as Z cars, unconventional sitcoms such as Steptoe and Son as well as the often controversial, The Wednesday play, which dealt with issues like mental breakdown, alcoholism, and homelessness what other area of media transformed the types of shows it would put on? - Correct Answer Some plays also contained nudity and ' offensive' language when did ITV launch? - Correct Answer 1955 how did ITV help another form of media? - Correct Answer had allowed advertising to expand• Advertisers could get straight into the family sitting room and tempt customers with attractive models that reinforced the brand names of goods when did BBC2 launch? - Correct Answer Apr-64 what did the launch of BBC2 do for BBC1? - Correct Answer allowing BBC1 to grow more populist and what was BBC2 the first channel to do? - Correct Answer in July 1967, BBC2 became the first channel to broadcast regular colour programmes explain how radio was still popular despite adancements in tv? - Correct Answer Radio survived, helped by the development of the cheap and portable transistor and the spread of car radios how did radio become popular to teens? - Correct Answer Teenagers no longer had to listen to what their parents wanted to her and personal radios mean that programmes could be targeted at different audiences how many radio stations were there before the 1960s? - Correct Answer 3 what did young people start to listen to? - Correct Answer Young people who could obtain the signal started to listen to the nightly broadcast of pop music from radio Luxemburg and from 1965 the ' pirate stations' what was created after pirate radio stations were banned? - Correct Answer After the pirate stations were banned, a BBC pop music station, radio one, was started give an example of a famous radio presenter on the new radio channels? - Correct Answer tony Blackburn describe how tv affected the print media? - Correct Answer Advertising revenue fell along with readership, but those newspapers and magazines that survived, changed and grew stronger what was the daily herald replaced with in 1964? - Correct Answer the sun what was the sun newspaper known to be? - Correct Answer the only newspaper born of the age we live in' who owned the sun newspaper? - Correct Answer , Rupert Murdoch what did murdoch want from the sun newspaper? - Correct Answer He associated it with the more permissive attitudes of the age and its popularity grew enormously what reappeared in essex 1964? - Correct Answer In 1964, a ' pirate station' , radio Caroline, began to broadcast from a ship moored outside territorial waters off the Essex coast