COMM 289 EXAM 1 ACTUAL EXAM PAPER
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
●● What are corporations?
Answer: Sociopaths
●● What benefits our economy?
Answer: Military industrial complex
●● What is the major approach in the field of communications?
Answer: Message centered approach
●● What Is a political economic approach?
Answer: It asks questions about how a media system is organized
●● Follow the
Answer: Money
●● How can media be funded?
Answer: By consumers directly buying a product, by advertisers
supporting media, by government support
, ●● What does the commercial media industry sell?
Answer: Sells audience's attention
●● Who is David Sarnoff?
Answer: President of the RCA who turned radio into a consumer icon
and made the plan to sell radio sets to consumer receivers
●● How many radio stations are established between 1920-1922?
Answer: 400
●● How many radio sets are established by 1923?
Answer: 600
●● How many sets were sold between 1922-1925?
Answer: The RCA sells over 83 million worth of sets
●● Which four companies made up the RCA?
Answer: General Electric, Westinghouse, United Fruit and AT&T
●● What did AT&T create?
Answer: They created the idea to make money by selling airtime to
advertisers
2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
●● What are corporations?
Answer: Sociopaths
●● What benefits our economy?
Answer: Military industrial complex
●● What is the major approach in the field of communications?
Answer: Message centered approach
●● What Is a political economic approach?
Answer: It asks questions about how a media system is organized
●● Follow the
Answer: Money
●● How can media be funded?
Answer: By consumers directly buying a product, by advertisers
supporting media, by government support
, ●● What does the commercial media industry sell?
Answer: Sells audience's attention
●● Who is David Sarnoff?
Answer: President of the RCA who turned radio into a consumer icon
and made the plan to sell radio sets to consumer receivers
●● How many radio stations are established between 1920-1922?
Answer: 400
●● How many radio sets are established by 1923?
Answer: 600
●● How many sets were sold between 1922-1925?
Answer: The RCA sells over 83 million worth of sets
●● Which four companies made up the RCA?
Answer: General Electric, Westinghouse, United Fruit and AT&T
●● What did AT&T create?
Answer: They created the idea to make money by selling airtime to
advertisers
