with verified answers
The Radio Act of 1912 and the event that spurred its creation - correct answer ✔✔First radio
legislation passed by congress
Made SOS distress signal official after sinking of the Titanic
Which companies formed RCA? - correct answer ✔✔RCA = Radio Corporation of America
Founded by Navy, AT&T, and American Marconi
First company to sell ads on the radio - correct answer ✔✔WEAF (Which eventually become
WNBC)
The Radio Act of 1927 - correct answer ✔✔Stated that stations could only license their channels
as long as they operated to serve the "public interest, convenience, or necessity"
Created the FRC, which eventually became the FCC
Transistor radios, what they are and what they did for Americans - correct answer ✔✔Small,
durable, inexpensive devices that made radio portable
Made radio able to go where TV couldn't
, Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, what it created - correct answer ✔✔Created the funding
authority for public broadcasting, the CPB
NPS and PBS mandated
How radio was affected by WWI - correct answer ✔✔Navy took control of radio
Corporate heads and government leaders made sure radio served American interests
In which state the first commercial broadcasting station was created in 1920
(and call letters) - correct answer ✔✔KDKA was created in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The democratic protections copyright policy was originally meant to embody
(4) - correct answer ✔✔1) All copyrighted works would enter the public domain after the term
expired
2) "Fair use" would allow LIMITED COPYING for research/education
3) After "first sale" of copyrighted item, consumers could do anything except resell for profit
4) Copyright protects the specific expression of ideas, but not ideas themselves
Year the first copyright law was passed - correct answer ✔✔1783
Current copyright policy (as of 1998) - correct answer ✔✔Copyright term the life of author plus
70 years