MSP 0821 Exam 1 Question and
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Italian inventor credited with the invention of the radio (wireless technology) - correct answer
✔Gugliemo Marconi
Iconoscope tube, an electronic camera that transmits an image. - correct answer ✔Vladimir Zworykin
Father of Televison. Using light converted to electrons, he developed a first tube that picks up moving
images for transmission. - correct answer ✔Philo Farnsworth
paid for a license to use Farnsworth's television patent and introduced television to America. - correct
answer ✔Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
first color TV developed in this year, not widely available until the 1960s - correct answer ✔1948
the first scripted show - correct answer ✔I Love Lucy (1951)
Number 1 show in 1972 - correct answer ✔All in the Family
the period in television history, roughly from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, that refers to the
dominance of the Big Three networks - ABC, CBS, and NBC - over programming and prime-time viewing
habits; the era began eroding with a decline in viewing and with the development of VCRs, cable, and
new TV networks - correct answer ✔network era
1980s-2000s
-cable became very popular, people could watch more channels, programming for specific interests
-Remote control
, -Video recorder - correct answer ✔Multi-Channel Era
-invention of DVR
-The streaming services
-OTT (Over-the top)
-Mobility: new devices
-Mass audience--> niche audience (Watching TV became an asymmetrical and individual viewing
experience - correct answer ✔post-network era
See it Now, a current affairs show on CBS hosted by journalist _____ - correct answer ✔Edward R.
Murrow
News show hosted by Edward R. Murrow. Weekly half-hour show devoted to in-depth documentary
coverage of a variety of subjects.
-First news show to use its own footage
-First live, coast-to-coast commercial broadcast
-Profiled people/places across the country
-Contributed to McCarthy's downfall - correct answer ✔See It Now
-Establish a newsroom
-Establish TV news bureaus - correct answer ✔NBC was first network to
Required public broadcasters to spend time presenting controversial issues and to report contrasting
views; repealed by FCC in 1987 - correct answer ✔Fairness Doctrine (1949)
Appointed head of Fed. Communication Commission by Nixon. Referred to television programming as a
"vast wasteland" and advocated for programming in the public interest. - correct answer ✔Newton
Minow
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Italian inventor credited with the invention of the radio (wireless technology) - correct answer
✔Gugliemo Marconi
Iconoscope tube, an electronic camera that transmits an image. - correct answer ✔Vladimir Zworykin
Father of Televison. Using light converted to electrons, he developed a first tube that picks up moving
images for transmission. - correct answer ✔Philo Farnsworth
paid for a license to use Farnsworth's television patent and introduced television to America. - correct
answer ✔Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
first color TV developed in this year, not widely available until the 1960s - correct answer ✔1948
the first scripted show - correct answer ✔I Love Lucy (1951)
Number 1 show in 1972 - correct answer ✔All in the Family
the period in television history, roughly from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, that refers to the
dominance of the Big Three networks - ABC, CBS, and NBC - over programming and prime-time viewing
habits; the era began eroding with a decline in viewing and with the development of VCRs, cable, and
new TV networks - correct answer ✔network era
1980s-2000s
-cable became very popular, people could watch more channels, programming for specific interests
-Remote control
, -Video recorder - correct answer ✔Multi-Channel Era
-invention of DVR
-The streaming services
-OTT (Over-the top)
-Mobility: new devices
-Mass audience--> niche audience (Watching TV became an asymmetrical and individual viewing
experience - correct answer ✔post-network era
See it Now, a current affairs show on CBS hosted by journalist _____ - correct answer ✔Edward R.
Murrow
News show hosted by Edward R. Murrow. Weekly half-hour show devoted to in-depth documentary
coverage of a variety of subjects.
-First news show to use its own footage
-First live, coast-to-coast commercial broadcast
-Profiled people/places across the country
-Contributed to McCarthy's downfall - correct answer ✔See It Now
-Establish a newsroom
-Establish TV news bureaus - correct answer ✔NBC was first network to
Required public broadcasters to spend time presenting controversial issues and to report contrasting
views; repealed by FCC in 1987 - correct answer ✔Fairness Doctrine (1949)
Appointed head of Fed. Communication Commission by Nixon. Referred to television programming as a
"vast wasteland" and advocated for programming in the public interest. - correct answer ✔Newton
Minow
