The biggest ($) Newspaper Group in the United States and owners of KXTV Channel 10 in Sacramento.
What is Gannet Company?
100
His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
This act granted second-class mailing rates to magazines, giving them low cost distribution through the mail system.
What was The Postal Act of 1879?
200
Arbitron Inc.
What is the company that provides radio ratings?
200
McClatchy Company and 260,000.
Who owns the Bee, and what is the Sunday circulation?
200
The proposed annual charge of $5.00 per month on all IPS users that is designed to help solve illegal downloading problems.
What is the Music Tax?
200
This industry survives as the smallest of the mass media industries.
What is the book industry?
200
This Mass Media vehicle was the first to offer truly national advertising.
What are Magazines?
300
He invented Frequency Modulation (FM) radio.
Who is Edwin Howard Armstrong?
300
Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the New York Times.
What are the top [3] newspapers according to circulation?
300
This Recording Artist signed a so-called "360 deal" with concert promoter Live Nation for a reported $120 million.
Who is Madonna?
300
Trade, professional, book clubs, and El Hi.
What are major divisions in book publishing?
300
She was responsible for having Thanksgiving declared a national holiday (an American writer and an influential editor who pioneered women's right, and she is the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb").
Who was Sara Josepha Hale?
400
The lowest 20 channels [88.1 91.9] on the FM band.
What are non-commercial educational FM channels?
400
In 1690 Boston printer Benjamin Harris published the first American Newspaper.
What is Publick Occurrences both Foreign and Domestick?
400
BMI, ASCAP and SESAC.
What are the top [3] performing-rights organizations [who collect royalties]?
400
A recent study by the Book Industry Study Group, shows that 75% of college student prefer the printed version over its modern counterpart.
What is the e-reader (Nook, Kindle, etc.)?
400
AARP, Reader's Digest, and Better Homes and Gardens.
What are the top consumer magazines (according to circulation)?
500
The world's first commercial radio station.
What is KDKA-[AM]?
500
An American newspaper publisher who built the nation’s largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
500
1877.
What year did Thomas Edison invent the phonograph?
500
The Great Gatsby, The Color Purple, and For Whom The Bell Tolls.
What are banned booked (what are banned and challenged classics)?
500
Time, Advance Publications, Hearst, Meredith Corp, and Reader's Digest.