Journalism 107: Final Exam questions
and complete correct answers
Telegraph in the 1840s - answer ✔✔-First electronic communication technology was...
Radio - answer ✔✔-First technology to transmit messages via "air waves"
James Clark Maxwell - answer ✔✔-Who posited the idea of radio waves in 1864?
Henrich Hertz in 1877 - answer ✔✔-Who demonstrated the physical existence of radio waves?
Guglielmo Marconi in 1895 - answer ✔✔-Who sent the first telegraphic code over radio waves?
Wireless Telegraphy - answer ✔✔-In early days, how was radio known?
Point-to-point communication
- still not broadcasting
- primary use was by navy for ship to shore communications - answer ✔✔-What was radio
primarily used for in the early days?
Wireless Ship Act of 1910
- required ships to be equipped with wireless comm.
, - saved 1,200 people during a shipwreck - answer ✔✔-What was the first regulation to regulate
radio?
All radio stations in US must receive a license from the government in order to operate - answer
✔✔-Radio Act of 1912
- AT&T monopoly in wired communication
- GE monopoly in wireless communication - answer ✔✔-Two government-sponsored
monopolies
Frank Conrad est. KDKA in Pittsburgh in 1920 - answer ✔✔-First commercial broadcast station?
Creates the Federal Radio Commission which is the direct precursor of the Federal
Communications Commission - answer ✔✔-Radio Act of 1927
Ensure that stations operate in the "public interest, convenience, and necessity." - answer ✔✔-
What should the FRC do?
- Officially established the FCC
- Charged with monitroying radio, telephone, and telegraph
- FCC covers TV, cable, internet, and wireless services too - answer ✔✔-Federal Communications
Act of 1934
- 1930s - 1940's - answer ✔✔-Golden Age of Radio
CBS, NBC-Red, NBC-Blue (later becomes ABC) - answer ✔✔-Three major networks
- Same 3 networks = CBS, NBC, ABC
and complete correct answers
Telegraph in the 1840s - answer ✔✔-First electronic communication technology was...
Radio - answer ✔✔-First technology to transmit messages via "air waves"
James Clark Maxwell - answer ✔✔-Who posited the idea of radio waves in 1864?
Henrich Hertz in 1877 - answer ✔✔-Who demonstrated the physical existence of radio waves?
Guglielmo Marconi in 1895 - answer ✔✔-Who sent the first telegraphic code over radio waves?
Wireless Telegraphy - answer ✔✔-In early days, how was radio known?
Point-to-point communication
- still not broadcasting
- primary use was by navy for ship to shore communications - answer ✔✔-What was radio
primarily used for in the early days?
Wireless Ship Act of 1910
- required ships to be equipped with wireless comm.
, - saved 1,200 people during a shipwreck - answer ✔✔-What was the first regulation to regulate
radio?
All radio stations in US must receive a license from the government in order to operate - answer
✔✔-Radio Act of 1912
- AT&T monopoly in wired communication
- GE monopoly in wireless communication - answer ✔✔-Two government-sponsored
monopolies
Frank Conrad est. KDKA in Pittsburgh in 1920 - answer ✔✔-First commercial broadcast station?
Creates the Federal Radio Commission which is the direct precursor of the Federal
Communications Commission - answer ✔✔-Radio Act of 1927
Ensure that stations operate in the "public interest, convenience, and necessity." - answer ✔✔-
What should the FRC do?
- Officially established the FCC
- Charged with monitroying radio, telephone, and telegraph
- FCC covers TV, cable, internet, and wireless services too - answer ✔✔-Federal Communications
Act of 1934
- 1930s - 1940's - answer ✔✔-Golden Age of Radio
CBS, NBC-Red, NBC-Blue (later becomes ABC) - answer ✔✔-Three major networks
- Same 3 networks = CBS, NBC, ABC
