RTV 3001 - Exam 1 questions well
answered to pass
What is telecommunication? - correct answer ✔✔Dissemination of messages over a distance
What is broadcasting? - correct answer ✔✔Originally from agriculture. The distribution of
seeds. One to many.
Recent trends in media ownership. - correct answer ✔✔consolidation, market convergence
(fewer companies owning more).
Technological Convergence - correct answer ✔✔Specific types of media, such as print, audio
and video all converging into a digital media form
Economic Convergence - correct answer ✔✔The merging of media corporations (i.e. Comcast
with NBC Universal)
Cultural Convergence - correct answer ✔✔Shared values, beliefs and practices influenced by
how we create, consume, and distribute media
Traditional content - correct answer ✔✔Broadcast through a pre-determined, pre-arranged
schedule with little if any consultation with audiences
On-demand content - correct answer ✔✔Audiences have more control over when they attend
to content
, Functions of Electronic Media: surveillance, correlation, cultural transmission, entertainment,
companionship, and connection - correct answer ✔✔
Weaknesses of wired communication - correct answer ✔✔Construction and Maintenance
Samuel Morse - correct answer ✔✔Invented the telegraph
Alexander G. Bell - correct answer ✔✔Invented the telephone
Heinrich Hertz - correct answer ✔✔Demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic radiation
Guglielmo Marconi - correct answer ✔✔Obtains patent for his wireless telegraph
Initial uses of radio before broadcasting - correct answer ✔✔for contacting people, journalists,
military, and ships
Titanic and its affect on radio regulation and shipping industry - correct answer ✔✔Radio Act of
1912
Radio Act of 1912 - correct answer ✔✔Regulatory Authority to Secretary of Commerce, Set
Frequencies and Hours of Operation, Had to Issue License on Application
Reginald Fesseden - correct answer ✔✔demonstrated that voice could be transmitted over the
"ether."
Audion. Lee DeForest - correct answer ✔✔made it possible to amplify weak radio signals
answered to pass
What is telecommunication? - correct answer ✔✔Dissemination of messages over a distance
What is broadcasting? - correct answer ✔✔Originally from agriculture. The distribution of
seeds. One to many.
Recent trends in media ownership. - correct answer ✔✔consolidation, market convergence
(fewer companies owning more).
Technological Convergence - correct answer ✔✔Specific types of media, such as print, audio
and video all converging into a digital media form
Economic Convergence - correct answer ✔✔The merging of media corporations (i.e. Comcast
with NBC Universal)
Cultural Convergence - correct answer ✔✔Shared values, beliefs and practices influenced by
how we create, consume, and distribute media
Traditional content - correct answer ✔✔Broadcast through a pre-determined, pre-arranged
schedule with little if any consultation with audiences
On-demand content - correct answer ✔✔Audiences have more control over when they attend
to content
, Functions of Electronic Media: surveillance, correlation, cultural transmission, entertainment,
companionship, and connection - correct answer ✔✔
Weaknesses of wired communication - correct answer ✔✔Construction and Maintenance
Samuel Morse - correct answer ✔✔Invented the telegraph
Alexander G. Bell - correct answer ✔✔Invented the telephone
Heinrich Hertz - correct answer ✔✔Demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic radiation
Guglielmo Marconi - correct answer ✔✔Obtains patent for his wireless telegraph
Initial uses of radio before broadcasting - correct answer ✔✔for contacting people, journalists,
military, and ships
Titanic and its affect on radio regulation and shipping industry - correct answer ✔✔Radio Act of
1912
Radio Act of 1912 - correct answer ✔✔Regulatory Authority to Secretary of Commerce, Set
Frequencies and Hours of Operation, Had to Issue License on Application
Reginald Fesseden - correct answer ✔✔demonstrated that voice could be transmitted over the
"ether."
Audion. Lee DeForest - correct answer ✔✔made it possible to amplify weak radio signals
