Ch. 6
Television and Cable
Television and Cable
The person who invented the CRT and transmitted the first image live on air.
Who is Philo T. Farnsworth?
Country divided into these two subgenres in the 70s
What are Outlaw Country and Pop Country?
These trends appeared in radio in the 1920s
What are networks and commercials?
Stylistic categories that organize film based on choices in plot, tone, etc
What is genre?
What is digital?
The words UHF stand for
What is Ultra High Frequency?
These two genres are inherently political and put heavy importance on unpolished sound
What are Folk and Punk?
This act established the FRC to oversee licenses and channel
What is the Radio Act of 1927?
A studio controlling the production, distribution, and exhibition of their films: outlawed by the Paramount decision
What is vertical intregration?
The first device to allow for listening to mobile music recording
What is a Cassette Player
The massive uptick in stations after WWII led to this action by the FCC
What is the Freeze of 1948?
Rap started in the 70s with these techniques and was created as an opposition to this music.
What is the cutting and sampling of records by MCs or DJs in opposition to dance music
These things saved radio from its demise in the 40s and 50s
What are narrowcasting, FM, reliable car radios, and transistor radios?
A cheap movie theatre designed for the working class, fashioned after Vaudeville
What is a nickelodeon?
This group of people created audiotape
The first cable network to use satellites for streaming and over PPV
What is HBO?
Subgenres that stemmed from 60s Rock (as covered in lecture, not like literally all of them
What are Progressive rock, Psychadelic rock, Punk, New Wave, and Grunge?
Required all major US ships carrying 50+ passengers and traveling far to carry radio equipment
What is the Wireless Ship Act of 1910?
A director viewed as a major creative force on a film. (i.e. 'Written and Directed by')
What is an auteur filmmaker?
The amount an artist is paid per stream on Spotify
What is $0.004?
The previously typical camera set up for television (especially sitcoms and reality shows)
The first music video to play on MTV
What is "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles?
What the term radio comes from. Hint: means radiate writings far
What is radiotelegraphy?
The first person to capture and project moving images in the 1880s
Who was Eadweard Muybridge?
Who is Les Paul?