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Journalism 190 Test #2Adolf Zukor - ANS-Hungarian producer, sued Edison's trust, forms Paramount
Adult Contemporary - ANS-middle of the road, among oldest and most popular, age
40+, news talk, oldies, and softrock
Album-Oriented Rock - ANS-progressive rock, copied, tamed, and absorbed by
mainstream radio 1970s
Alexander Popov - ANS-Russian, same discovery as Marconi without patent
AM - ANS-amplitude modulation, stressed volume or height
Audion - ANS-vacuum tube detected and amplified radio signals (to hear better)
Big Five - ANS-Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and RKO
Big Six - ANS-Warner Brothers, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Columbia,
and Disney (current)
Block booking - ANS-developed by Adolf Zukor to gain access to popular films with
stars, theaters must also agree to rent new, marginal films as well.
Blockbuster - ANS-feature-length films, first one was "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915
Broadcasting - ANS-used to be referred to as agricultural process of casting seeds over
large area, transmission of radio waves
Celluloid - ANS-pliable material that could hold a coating of chemicals sensitive to light
Cinema verité - ANS-French term for Truth Film
Cinematograph - ANS-motion picture film camera invented by Lumiere Brothers
Clear Channel - ANS-ownership of many radio stations, goal is to be a vehicle to
advertisers, established iHeartRadio, largest billboard company and largest live music
concert promoter, established in 40 countries across the world
, Communication Act of 1934 - ANS-made the Federal Radio Commission the Federal
Communication Commission, Congress and President sided with already powerful radio
networks
Consensus Narratives - ANS-term that describes cultural products that become popular
and provide shared cultural experiences
Contemporary Hit Radio - ANS-top 40, appeals to teens and young adults
Country - ANS-most popular form in nation (except in morning drive time-
news/talk/info)
David Sarnoff - ANS-created NBC and network radio, becomes RCA's general manager
1921, controls radio through NBC Red (BCA, etc) and NBC Blue (GE, Westinghouse,
RCA)
Disney - ANS-part of the Big Six, owns ABC, ESPN, Buena Vista, Lifetime, Marvel,
Pixar, etc.
Documentary Film - ANS-"The creative treatment of actuality"
Eadweard Muybridge - ANS-developed Zooproxiscope that projected images on the
wall 1880
Edwin Armstrong - ANS-American electrical engineer and inventor, involved in switch to
FM radio (committed suicide after Sarnoff refused to begin using FM)
Edwin Porter - ANS-first American narrative filmmaker
Electromagnetic waves - ANS-invisible electronic impulses similar to visible light
Fairness Doctrine - ANS-struck down 1987, contrasting view must be given to serve
public interest, convenience, and necessity
Federal Communication Commission - ANS-oversee licenses and negotiate channel
problems, member appointed by the president
Film Genres - ANS-category of similar characters, scenes, structures, and recurring
themes
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