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He invented the phonograph and the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison
He was the first DJ (Disk Jockey) on KDKA.
Who is Dr. Frank Conrad?
This television station was eventually extremely influential in the music industry, but at first had to beg record producers to play their videos on air.
What is MTV?
Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville created this, the first known recording device.
What is the phonautograph?
This is a one-way, simultaneous transference of information to a large number of people, sometimes over great distances.
What is Mass Communication?
His "Wall of Sound" technique was a pioneering approach to the art of recording.
Who is Phil Spector?
This company purchased the first paid radio advertisement in 1922.
What is AT&T?
This band sent the music video for Bohemian Rhapsody to Top on Pops instead of performing because they were still on Tour.
Who is Queen?
This system expanded the frequency range so that instruments such as the string basses could be heard.
What is the Westrex System?
DAW stands for this:
What is a Digital Audio Workstation?
He added a second recording head which allowed two individual tracks to be recorded separately, then played together.
Who is Les Paul?
AM and FM radio stand for this:
What is Amplitude Modulated and Frequency Modulated?
This hit song was the first video to be shown on MTV in 1981.
What is Video Killed the Radio Star?
This is the technique of recording allows the artist to layer different takes on top of each other and then play them back together. It is currently the industry standard.
What is Multitracking?
The name of the music file developed to be shared on computers in the early 1990s.
What is .mp3?
He greatly improved the amplifying power of the vacuum tube in 1913, and then developed FM radio in 1933.
Who is Edwin Armstrong.
He was the conductor of the first NBC radio Orchestra
Who is Arturo Toscanini?
What is Thriller?
This album, completed in 1967, sparked the trend to include songs that could not be performed live.
What is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
This "store" opened in 2003 which allowed people to buy music digitally.
He developed a theory on how to send sound through sound waves while working at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1890s.
Who is Reginald A. Fessenden.
This invention, which was an improvement on the vacuum tube, alongside the car, allowed the radio to continue living beyond the invention of the TV.
What is the transistor?
This questionably titled show debuted on MTV in 1988. It was the first show to ever exclusively focus on Hip-Hop.
What is Yo! MTV Raps?
He, alongside Bing Crosby, recorded the first radio show on Magnetic tape using a Magnetophon in 1947.
Who is Jack Mullin?
These three components are necessary for the reproduction of sound:
What are a way to capture the sound, a way to store the sound, and a way to play back the sound?