Journalism 190 Test 3 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2024
24/7 news cycle - ANS-introduced by CNN
ABC - ANS-World News tonight, owned by Disney
Access Channels - ANS-1971 FCC mandates nation's top TV markets to provide and
fund a tier of non-broadcast channels for education, government, and public
Analog - ANS-standard adopted by FCC for US TV
Anita Sarkeesian - ANS-feminist, studies gender perceptions in video game industry
anthology drama - ANS-live drama theater to TV
Basic cable - ANS-includes 100+ channel lineup of local broadcast signals
Bechdel Test - ANS-asks if a work of fiction features two women with names, talking to
each other about something other than a man
cable networks - ANS-reduced monopoly of networks (ABC, NBC, CBS)
Capitalism - ANS-vertical, hierarchy with high salary CEO on top and low wage workers
on bottom, serves upper 1%
CATV - ANS-community antenna television, first small cable systems
CBS - ANS-TV news was first news show videotaped for rebroadcast on affiliate
stations
Common Carrier - ANS-service that does not get involved in content
David Sarnoff - ANS-obtained license from Farnsworth, head of RCA (eventually NBC)
, deficit financing - ANS-funds programs, production company leases show to network for
license fee lower than cost of production
Democracy - ANS-horizontal, everyone with same voice
Digital - ANS-replaced analog, allowed for increased channel capacity and improved
image quality and sound
Direct Broadcast Satellite - ANS-challenge to cable, transmits signal directly to small
satellite dishes near customer's home
Edward R. Murrow - ANS-one of the most significant journalists of the 20th century,
head of Pres. Kennedy's Information Agency in 1961, famous for taking of Sen.
McCartyh in 1954
Electronic Publishers - ANS-argued for by cable operators, able to choose which
channels and content to carry
episodic series - ANS-main characters continue, sets and crew stay the same, two
types; 1. Chapter Shows (self-contained stories), 2. Serial Programs (open-ended,
continued story lines)
Evergreens - ANS-popular network shows on syndication (The Office)
FCC - ANS-Federal Communication Commission
Fin-Syn - ANS-financial interest and syndication rules, "constituted damaging attack
against TV monopoly, banned networks from profit from program syndication
Fourth screen - ANS-Smart phones, tablets, iPods, iPads, and mobile TV devices
fringe time - ANS-programming immediately before and after evening prime time
Jackson Katz - ANS-author of The Macho Paradox, documentary Tough Guise II
Jennifer Siebel Newsom - ANS-Documentary filmmaker of Miss Representation
Leased Channels - ANS-citizens could buy time and produce own programs and
controversial content
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