Com 316:  Fundamentals of Broadcasting

Dr. Janet McMullen  Fall 2002  MWF 9:00

 


Updated: 09/23/02

KEY WORDS FOR BROADCAST HISTORY PORTION OF EXAM

electrical telegraphy

Morse Code

transoceanic cable

transducer

A.G. Bell

H. Hertz

Marconi

vacuum tube oscillator

diodes

triode

point to point

point to multipoint alternator

signal corps

air service

radiotelegraphy

Fessenden

Marconi

amplicfication

Attenuation

Phase

Hz

Titanic

KDKA

U.S. Navy

RCA (all stockholders)

Owen Young

Patent wars

Patent pool

Sarnoff

radio group

cross-licensing

Sarnoff

Frank Conrad

8XK

telephone group

toll broadcasting

chain broadcasting

beginning of networks

CBS

William Paley

Untied Fruit

Radio Act of 1912

Radio Conferences

NAB

Zenith Decision

Radio Act of 1927

FRC

FCC

Communications Act of 1934

Albert Laskar

Father Coughlin

Charles Brinkley

Mr. And Mrs. Frank Hummert

War of the Worlds (all details, date, network, producer author, adaptation of..., author, producer, star..)

Mercury Theatre of the Air

Orson Wells

H.G. Welles

Howard Koch

Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen

Shuler

Mutual Broadcasting System

Anmos 'n Andy

Freeman F. Gosden

Chareles J. Correll

ASCAP and BMI

Lea Act

Sec 506 to Com Act of 1934

Press Radio Wars

Biltmore Agreement

AP

INS

UP

Press-Radio Bureau

FCC Network Investigation

Red Network

Blue Network

ABC

Yankee Network

Penny Prerss

Chairman Fly

ABC

Paramount

Mechanical TV

Charles Jenkins

The Freeze

World's Fair of 1939

John Baird

Philo T. Farnesworth

Vladimir Zworkyn

Electronic System

Camden Group

NTSC

TV Standards (all details)

FM - development and problems

Radio in WWII

Edward R. Murrow

Paul White

Abe Schecter

William Shirer

HV Kaltenborne

image orthicon

coaxial cable

Chaplin Jim

Other Special Programs in WW II

UHF

VHF

Mixed Markets

6th Report and Order (details)

All channel law - 1964

Click Stop Tuners

Compatible Color

Ampex

Video Tape

DuMont

Live Decade

Desi Arnaz

segmented sponsorshjp

Pat Weaver

Spectacular

magazine formats

"Peter Pan"

"Disney Land"

"Cheyenne"

Talent raids

Radio Format changes

Gorden McLendon

Todd Storz

blacklists

Twenty One

64,000 Question

John Henry Falk

Black Listing

Aware

Red Channels

Red Channels

Joseph McCarthy

See it Now

Charles Van Doren

Berry and Enright

I will add additional key words for tech  unit in a day or two.  JM




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