Chapter 7

1. Important People in Radio and Sound Recording

a. Marconi- created radio that allowed long-distance comm.
b. Fessenden - liquid barretter - made it possible to transmit voices
c. DeForest - audion tube - permitted the reliable transmission of voices and
music
d. Edison- first sound recording device
e. Berliner- gramophone improved on sound recording
2. Importance of Early Aspects of Radio
a. Radio Acts and Communications Act eventually resulted in the FCC and
the trustee model of broadcast wut
b. Advertising came in the 1920’s (the “golden age”)
3. The Organizational and Economic Natures of Radio
a. Radio stations classified as commercial and noncommercial - AM and FM
b. Radio is local, fragmented, specialized, personal, and mobile
c. Deregulation allows concentration of ownership of radio into a few
companies
d. Three major recording companies control 89%of the world’s recorded
music market
4. New and Converging Radio and Recording technologies and their impacts
a. Satellite and cable delivery of radio, terrestrial digital radio, Web radio,
podcasting, and music streaming from a number of different types of sites
b. Smartphones and tablets reinforce radio’s mobility and expand its
audiences
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6. The History and Development of the Television and Cable Television Industries
a. Paul Nipkow developed device for transmitting images
b. John Logie Baird used scanning technology to send images long distance
c. Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth made electronic scanning
technology in 1920’s leading to public demonstration of television in 1939.
d. Cable introduced in 1948
7. Contemporary Television and Cable Industries
a. Cable offers programming that include basic, expanded basic, and
premium cable
b. Direct broadcast satellite is the primary multichannel competitor to cable,
now joined by fiber optic systems like FiOS
8. Relationship Between Television and Its Viewers
a. TV becomes the leading source of news for a large majority of Americans
b. Becomes most influential ad medium
9. New and Converging Video Technologies
a. Many technologies influence television-viewer like VCR, DVD, DVR
10. Digital and Mobile Television Revolution
 a. Smartphones, tablets, etc are now common.
b. Rise of video via social media sites
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