Movies
This 1984 movie from Steven Spielberg forced the Motion Picture Association of America to add a PG13 rating.
What is "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"?
This 1970s television miniseries featured a prominent black cast, and it was a ratings hit.
What is "Roots".
This band is looked back on as the first boy band, and this band also began "The British Invasion".
Who are The Beatles?
This was the first newspaper of colonial America.
What is Publick Occurences?
This tragedy resulted in all radios being on 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What is the Titanic sinking?
These early movie theaters cost just a nickel to get in.
What are nickelodeons?
This cable channel had premium programming, and when it first came out, many people didn't mind paying extra money for it.
What is HBO?
This pioneer rap group was notorious for its lyrics toward police officers.
Who is NWA?
This colonial-era tragedy was painted by all colonial newspaper as an evil act started by British Soldiers in which several colonials were shot to death.
What is The Boston Massacre?
The first commercial radio broadcast reported this.
What were presidential election results?
This 1927 movie did not impress everyone, even though it was the first ever to use spoken words.
What is "The Jazz Singer"?
What is "The Simpsons"?
An airplane crash took the lives of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. A song was later written about this tragedy, and the crash and deaths were called this.
What is "The Day The Music Died"?
This form of journalism is what you would find in the National Enquirer, featuring large headlines, stories about aliens and borderline fictional stories.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This radio and television term means using wireless technology to instantly reach a mass audience, but this term was actually originally a farming term.
What is broadcasting?
This movie from "The Golden Age" was the first ever to use a swear word.
This basic cable channel is featured on more basic cable packages in the United States than any other channel.
What is ESPN?
In the 1980s, the compact disc was born, challenging tapes and vinyl discs as the primary way people listened to purchased music. This is called what?
This newspaper tradition started in the Civil War, which allowed the U.S. Army to know who had written what newspaper stories?
What is a byline?
With the rise of television's popularity, the radio industry made these small, portable radios.
What are transistor radios?
Since most people only watch about 15 channels, many people in the media and the public have pushed for cable and dish companies to offer this instead of a traditional channel lineup.
What is a la carte pricing?
This song was Elvis Presley's first No. 1 hit.
What is "Heartbreak Hotel"?
What is Rocky Mountain News?
This minister is often credited with being the first true radio shock jock.
Who is Charles Coughlin?