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| First electronic mass medium and the first national broadcasted medium |
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| dispute between Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Telsa |
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| The first to send signals through the air and also gained maximum publicity. "Father of the Radio" |
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| the first audio device permitting reception of wireless voices, invented by Reginald Fessenden in 1903 |
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| a vacuum tube that improved and amplified wireless signals invented by Lee DeForest. He saw radio as a means of broadcasting |
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| developed a gramophone that was a flat, rotating, wax coated disc that could easily be copied or pressed from a metal master. |
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| transmitting voices and music at great distances to a large number of people- predated the development of radio. |
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| requiring that all ships using US ports and carrying more than 50 passengers have a working wireless and operator |
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| not only strengthened rules regarding shipboard wireless but also required that wireless operators be licensed by secretary of commerce and labor |
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| ordered the cession of government regulation of radio despite his belief that chaos would descend on the medium. radio sales soon dropped drastically. |
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| restored order, it authorized then to use the channels, which belonged to the public, but not to own them. Eventually the communications act of 1934 replaced this. |
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| Federal Radio Commission (FRC). |
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| Established to monitor the provision of the radio act of 1927. |
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| in broadcast regulation, the idea that broadcasters serve as the public's trustees of fiduciaries. based on spectrum scarcity, and regulation around the issue of influence |
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| limited because not everyone who wants to broadcast can, those granted licenses to serve the local area must accept regulation |
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| or groups of stations. a broadcasting station that align itself with a network. This could deliver to larger audiences |
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| a broadcasting station that is owned and operated by a network. They grew so powerful that the government even asked NBC to invest on one of its networks |
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| fundamental basis of broadcasting in the US |
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1. radio broadcasts were private
2.gov. regulation was based on public interest
3.stations were licensed to serve specific localities, but national networks programmed the most lucrative hours with the largest audiences
4. entertainment and information were the basic broadcast content
5. advertising formed the basis of finical support and broadcasting |
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| 10 to 100 watt nonprofit community radio stations with a reach of only a few miles. |
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| radio accepting that many potential listeners will not tune in but, size of the audience is secondary to its composition. ex. country, top 40, etc. |
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| secondary services (formats) |
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| often in rural areas, a secondary or non primary format. |
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| predetermined sequence of selected records of popular music |
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| income earned from the sale of airtime. local time and national sports account for 92% of all billings. |
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| no national ownership limits and one person or company can own as many as 8 stations in one market depending on the size of the market |
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| one person or company owing and managing multiple radio stations in a single market |
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| totally available audience reached |
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| ratings technology, a specific remote control with personalized buttons for each viewer in the household |
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| the worrisome outcome of virtually all the worlds influential recordings being controlled by a few profit orientated giants. |
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| are albums more than 3 years old |
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| albums out for15 months to three years. sales have significantly dropped in the past few years. |
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| it aided the rebirth of the radio networks |
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| digital audio radio service (DARS) |
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| direct satellite home, office, and automobile delivery of audio |
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| the delivery of the radio directly to individual users over the internet |
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| recording and downloading of audio files on servers |
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| traditional, over the air stations transmitting their signals online. |
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| web only radio stations can be accessed online only ex. Pandora!! |
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| simultaneously downloading and accessing of playing of digital or audio video data |
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| recordings and radio industries changed from analogs to this. the sound went from being preserved as waves to conversion into 1s and 0s logged in intervals on a computer |
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| compression of soft wear that shrinks to audio files to less than a tenth of their original size |
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| RIAA recording industry association of America |
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| developing their own secure internet technology but by tho time it was available for release it was too late |
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| file sharing software that allows anonymous users to create 'swarms' of data as they simultaneously download and upload bits of a given piece of content from countless untraceable servers |
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| outrageous, rude, crude radio peronalities |
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| local, fragmented, specialized, personal, and mobile |
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