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Split run edition (magazines)
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Editorial info remains the same, but includes few pages of ads purchased
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Enables the publisher/editor to write, design, lay out, and print the publication or post it online |
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| the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way |
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the art or practice of communicating news by photographs, esp. in magazines |
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| Sum of individuals reading a print title they or their families did not buy or subscribe to |
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Automatically renewing a subscription on a credit card unless the subscriber opts out |
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| Captures the fluctuations of sound waves and stores in a records grooves |
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translates sound waves into binary on-off pulses and stores info as numerical codes |
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| independent production houses |
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| Talent scouts of the music business |
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1992, Compressing sound into small, manageable digital files |
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| Provided the first voice broadcast in 1906 |
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| Father of wireless telegraphy; Invented Morse code |
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| Developed the Audion vacuum tube in 1906 (detected and amplified radio signals) |
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| First person to make images move |
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| Received patent in 1930 for first electronic television w/ AT&T and RCA |
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| Developed cinematograph, a combined camera, film development, and projection system. |
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| Requires all major ships to be equipped with wireless radio, carrying more than 50 passengers and traveling more than 200 miles off coast |
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| Required all radio stations on land or at sea to be licensed and assigned special call letters |
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| Required radio stations to operate in the “public interest, convienence, or necessity.” |
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Federal Communications Act of 1934
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| Allows commercial interest to control airwaves; FRC became the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) |
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Telecommunications Act of 1996 |
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| Consolidated radio ownership across U.S. |
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| 1948 supreme court ruling forced big, vertically integrated studios to break up ownership of three pillars (movie production, distribution, and exhibition). |
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| Unethical practice of record promoters paying DJs or radio programmer to favor particular songs over others. |
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| Accepting marginal films w/ no stars in order to get access to popular films |
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Full-time single screen theaters providing a more enjoyable/comfortable environment.
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Documentary style with portable cameras. French for “Truth Film;”
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- Warner Brothers
- Paramount
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Universal
- Columbia Pictures
- Disney
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| Statistical estimate, based on a random sample, expressed as the % of households tuned to a program in the total market being sampled. |
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| Gauges % of homes tuned to a program compared with those actually using their sets at that same time. |
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| Leasing TV stations the exclusive to air older TV series. |
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| Delivery of specialized programming for niche viewer groups (large audiences) |
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| Ground work for the internet; by US defense department (1960’s) |
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| Code can be updated by anyone interested in modifications. |
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Info in analog form (Texts/Pictures) is translated into binary code
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| Buying and selling of products over the internet. |
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Phony, official looking emails, sent by scammers “Fishing” for personal info.
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Contrast between those who can afford internet, and those who cannot.
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- Basic: Local broadcast signals, few regional stations
- Premium: Movie channels, pay-per-view, video-on-demand
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Three pillars of vertical integration
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- Production: Producing the movie
- Distribution: Getting the movie to people or companies who get them to the theater
- Exhibition: The playing of movies in the theater
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Pop culture products that provide us with shared experiences
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Consumers can customize a web page or other media forms (facebook)
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| Requires websites to obtain explicit permission from consumers before it can collect their browsing-history data |
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Three eras of television (Lotz)
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- Network Era: (1950's-1970's) television industries essentially adopted radio-network models for program creation, audience measurement and ad sales
- Era of multi-channel transition: Emergence of cable television and the development VCR and remote control, which gave viewers more programming options and greater control of their viewing experience.
- Post-network era: Digitization of media content and the resulting convergence of computer and televisual innovations. Innovations such as (iPod, PSP2, cell phones), video-on-demand devices (TiVo, DVRs)
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