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In the last ten years, this hedge fund has acquired numerous newspaper companies across the United States.

What is Alden Global Capital?

100

This individual is recognized as the creator of the World Wide Web.

Who is Tim Berners-Lee?

100

With so many shows competing for listeners’ attention, new ones struggle to stand out and “break through the noise.”

What is the challenge that new podcasts face in gaining an audience?

100

These payments are made by linear service providers to networks in order to carry the networks’ channels.

What are carriage fees?

100

When cable television first appeared in the 1950s, it was called by this name.

What is Community Antenna Television?

200

This medium remains the world’s most accessible form of mass communication because it’s widespread, easy to carry, and cheap to make, send, and receive.

Radio 

200

These are four key functions of mass communication.

What are cultural transmission, correlation, surveillance, and entertainment?

200

This section of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 protects online platforms from legal liability for user content, reducing their motivation to moderate it.

What is Section 230?

200

In the United States, most radio stations generate revenue primarily through this source.

What are advertisements?

200

When a major label funds a local band’s album recording, this step of the recording industry’s business model is taking place.

What is creation?

300

These types of record labels, rather than the major ones, release the majority of music titles.

What are independent (or indie) labels?

300

Passed in 1970, this law aimed to preserve a variety of editorial viewpoints in cities served by only two competing daily newspapers.

What is the Newspaper Preservation Act?

300

Marc Andreessen created this groundbreaking graphical web browser, considered the first of its kind.

Mosaic

300

Passed in 1927, this law was designed to bring order to the then-chaotic and mostly unregulated airwaves.

What is the Radio Act?

300

Unlike earlier versions of the internet, Web 3.0 is linked to this type of infrastructure, rather than a centralized one.

What is decentralized?

400

Historically, media companies kept these four key functions under centralized control.

What are content, production, distribution, and marketing?

400

This term describes a network’s capacity and speed, determining how much data can be transmitted and how quickly it travels.

What is bandwidth?

400

Over the past fifty years, traditional media companies have become fewer but larger through mergers and acquisitions, a process known as this.

What is consolidation?

400

This type of social media content has grown increasingly influential in shaping consumers’ decisions on everything from household items to media products.

What are ratings and reviews?

400

Released in the early 1970s, this game is widely recognized as the first mass-produced video game.

What is Pong?

500

This metric measures the percentage of all households or viewers with a television, whether it’s on or off, that are watching a particular program.

What are television ratings?

500

This acronym stands for a type of online game where large numbers of players interact in a virtual world.

What is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)?

500

Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox and the Linux Operating System are all examples of this movement?

What is the FOSS movement?

500

Broadcasting that is transmitted through radio waves from land-based transmitters is also known as this.

What is terrestrial broadcasting?

500

This year marks the invention of the mechanical printing press.

What is 1455?