Journalism 190: Chapters 5 & 7
1920-1950 - ANS-- Golden Age of Radio
- Radio pioneers single-sponsor programming
- in-house bands/orchestras
- fireside chats
93% - ANS--percent of Americans 12+ that listen to radio
Adolf Zukor - ANS-- creator of Paramount Pictures
- co-inventor of studio system
Amos 'n' Andy - ANS-- most popular radio series in history
Big 5 - ANS-paramount, MGM, Warner Bros, Fox, Rko
Block Booking - ANS-- done by Zukor
- exhibitors forced to rent new films along with popular films
Broadcasting - ANS-- the transmission of radio waves to a broad public audience
Cinema Verite - ANS-"Truth film"
Allowed filmmakers to go where cameras could not go before and record fragments of
everyday life less obtrusively
Cinematography - ANS-- Invented by the Lumiere brothers
- combines camera, film, and projection
- movement, no sound
Communications act of 1934 - ANS-- Made the FRC the FCC
Consensus narratives - ANS-Cultural products that become popular and provide shared
cultural narratives
Contemporary Hit Radio - ANS-- Top 40 radio
- appeals largely to teens and young adults
Country Radio - ANS-- the most popular radio format in the US
, David Sarnoff - ANS-- began as a wireless operator
- went on to create NBC and network radio
Documentary - ANS-A genre that interprets reality by recording real people and settings
Eadweard Muybridge - ANS-- devised a way to project the image on the wall (the
zooproxiscope)
Edwin Armstrong - ANS-- Developed FM radio in the 1930s
- worked with David Sarnoff but after a long legal battle, kills himself
Edwin Porter - ANS-- Made 1st American narrative film
- "The Life of an American Firemen"
- "The great train robbery
Fairness Doctrine - ANS-- FCC requires radio to air and engage in controversial issues
programming and to allow speakers on opposite sides to speak equal time
- repealed by the FCC in 1987
-- feeds the rise of talk radio
Frank Conrad - ANS-- One of the first and most popular US DJs
FRC (Federal Radio Commission) - ANS-Regulatory agency to monitor airwaves for
"public interest, convenience, or necessity"
George Melies - ANS-- made the earliest narrative film
HD radio - ANS-- a digital technology that enables AM and FM to multicast up to three
compressed digital signals within their traditional frequency
ex: having KWOW on 91.1,100.7,101.9
Heinrich Hertz - ANS-- PROVED the existence of electromagnetic waves (radio waves)
Hertz Apparatus - ANS-- created by Heinrich Hertz
Hooks up electrodes to Morse code machine
- transmission of first message
Hollywood 10 - ANS-Trial investigating hollywoods "communist ties"
iHeart Radio - ANS--formerly the clear channel
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