Pre-Broadcasting
Cheap publications offering sensational stories & muckraking reporting.
What is the penny press?
This company was formed as a state-sanctioned broadcast oligopoly in 1919.
What is the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)?
Evening radio addresses given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What are fireside chats?
A typical setting for Golden Age TV shows.
What is an urban setting?
Two sitcom production techniques pioneered by I Love Lucy.
What is multi-camera setup and 35mm film shooting?
Period from 1890-1920 of mass immigration and rising urban population.
What is the Progressive Era?
Founded in 1926, this was the first U.S. broadcast network.
What is the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)?
The director and narrator of the 1938 radio drama "The War of the Worlds."
Who is Orson Welles?
By 1952, this company achieved a monopoly on calculating TV ratings.
What is AC Nielsen?
A 1950s controversy that harmed public perception of TV.
What are the quiz show scandals?
A type of live theatre that influenced early broadcast comedy and variety shows.
What is vaudeville?
Legislation which formed the FCC.
What is the Communications Act of 1934?
A clergy member whose broadcasts showed the populist appeal of radio.
Who is Father Coughlin?
Published in 1946, it provided guidelines for station license renewals.
What is the FCC Blue Book?
By 1956, this technology became the industry standard for TV broadcasts.
What is color?
Entertainment shifted toward this kind of audience at the turn of the 20th century.
What is common people/mass audience?
Network connections ran on coaxial cables owned by this company.
What is American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T)?
A business model where stations agreed to take all network programming.
What is clearance?
The early TV industry was largely based in this area.
What is New York City?
What is magazine format?
A technology that transmitted coded messages by wire over long distances.
What is the electrical telegraph?
NBC's first director of commercial programming.
Who is Bertha Brainard?
This industry produced most of the radio programming of the 1930s.
What are advertisers?
"Marty" was broadcast on this anthology series in 1953.
What is the Philco Television Playhouse?
In 1952, it lifted the freeze on new station licenses.
What is the FCC Sixth Report and Order?