The Birth of Radio
The first U.S. broadcast network.
What is the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)?
Evening addresses by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What are fireside chats?
A typical setting for Golden Age sitcoms.
What is an urban setting?
By 1952, this company monopolized TV ratings.
What is AC Nielsen?
How FCC Chair Newton Minow described TV in 1961.
What is a vast wasteland?
Legislation that formed the FCC.
What is the Communications Act of 1934?
Director & narrator of 1938's "War of the Worlds."
Who is Orson Welles?
Published in 1946, it provided guidelines for station license renewals.
What is the FCC Blue Book?
This 1950s controversy harmed public perception of TV.
What are the quiz show scandals?
Mid-century sitcoms often portrayed domesticity as seen through this.
What is a rose-tinted window?
Company founded as a broadcast oligopoly in 1919.
What is the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)?
A priest who demonstrated radio's populist appeal.
Who is Father Coughlin?
Early TV production was largely based in this city.
What is New York?
Two sitcom techniques pioneered by I Love Lucy.
What are multi-camera shooting and 35mm filming?
This network saw huge growth under William S. Paley.
What is the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)?
This industry produced most radio programs in the 1930s.
What is the advertising industry?
Advertising model based on multiple sponsors.
What is magazine format?
Network signals ran on cables owned by this company.
What is American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T)?
Under this model, affiliates took all network programming.
What is clearance?
"Marty" was broadcast on this anthology series in 1953.
What is The Philco Television Playhouse?
In 1952, it lifted the freeze on new station licenses.
What is the FCC Sixth Report and Order?