JLMC Exam 2 questions with verified
answers already passed
In its entrepreneurial phase, radio was marketed as a ship-to-shore communication device. -
correct answer ✔✔TRUE
The American Marconi Company had trouble developing as a business after World War I in part
because the U.S. Navy did not want a foreign-controlled company wielding so much power in
the field of emergent radio technologies. - correct answer ✔✔TRUE
Because of the role of the navy in early broadcast history, the United States today has a national
broadcasting system both controlled and supervised by the government. - correct answer
✔✔FALSE
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed after World War I to give the United States
an early worldwide monopoly over radio broadcasting. - correct answer ✔✔TRUE
Network radio helped modernize America by deemphasizing local in favor of national programs.
- correct answer ✔✔TRUE
In the 1940s, NBC willingly sold its Blue network because it was losing money. - correct answer
✔✔FALSE
Radio soap operas got their name because they were a "clean" form of entertainment that lived
up to the social and moral codes of the time - correct answer ✔✔FALSE
By the 1960s, most radio listening was done outside the home. - correct answer ✔✔TRUE
, The Top 40 format refers to the forty most popular hits in a given week as measured by record
sales. - correct answer ✔✔TRUE
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 decreased the number of broadcast stations a single
person or corporation can own. - correct answer ✔✔FALSE
The telegraph was useless as a means of communicating between ships at sea or between ships
and the shore because ______. - correct answer ✔✔Navies could not find out when wars had
ceased on land and often continued fighting for months. Commercial shipping interests also
lacked an efficient way to coordinate and relay information from land and between ships. What
was needed was a telegraph without wires.
The term broadcasting was originally used in ______. - correct answer ✔✔Once an agricultural
term that referred to the process of casting seeds over a large area, would come to mean the
transmission of radio waves (and, later, TV signals) to a broad public audience.
Which event led to the Radio Act of 1912 (which required most large ships to carry wireless
technology)? - correct answer ✔✔In the wake of the Titanic tragedy, Congress passed the Radio
Act of 1912, which addressed the problem of amateur radio operators increasingly cramming
the airwaves.
Why were AT&T and GE able to undercut Marconi's influence with the U.S. Navy, even though
Marconi was the best company? - correct answer ✔✔The U.S. Navy was concerned about a
foreign-controlled company having so much power over their communications
As a new network, CBS was able to compete with NBC by? - correct answer ✔✔Paying affiliates
to broadcast its programs
With the Federal Communications Act of 1934, the Federal Radio Commission became the
______. - correct answer ✔✔Federal Communications Commission
answers already passed
In its entrepreneurial phase, radio was marketed as a ship-to-shore communication device. -
correct answer ✔✔TRUE
The American Marconi Company had trouble developing as a business after World War I in part
because the U.S. Navy did not want a foreign-controlled company wielding so much power in
the field of emergent radio technologies. - correct answer ✔✔TRUE
Because of the role of the navy in early broadcast history, the United States today has a national
broadcasting system both controlled and supervised by the government. - correct answer
✔✔FALSE
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed after World War I to give the United States
an early worldwide monopoly over radio broadcasting. - correct answer ✔✔TRUE
Network radio helped modernize America by deemphasizing local in favor of national programs.
- correct answer ✔✔TRUE
In the 1940s, NBC willingly sold its Blue network because it was losing money. - correct answer
✔✔FALSE
Radio soap operas got their name because they were a "clean" form of entertainment that lived
up to the social and moral codes of the time - correct answer ✔✔FALSE
By the 1960s, most radio listening was done outside the home. - correct answer ✔✔TRUE
, The Top 40 format refers to the forty most popular hits in a given week as measured by record
sales. - correct answer ✔✔TRUE
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 decreased the number of broadcast stations a single
person or corporation can own. - correct answer ✔✔FALSE
The telegraph was useless as a means of communicating between ships at sea or between ships
and the shore because ______. - correct answer ✔✔Navies could not find out when wars had
ceased on land and often continued fighting for months. Commercial shipping interests also
lacked an efficient way to coordinate and relay information from land and between ships. What
was needed was a telegraph without wires.
The term broadcasting was originally used in ______. - correct answer ✔✔Once an agricultural
term that referred to the process of casting seeds over a large area, would come to mean the
transmission of radio waves (and, later, TV signals) to a broad public audience.
Which event led to the Radio Act of 1912 (which required most large ships to carry wireless
technology)? - correct answer ✔✔In the wake of the Titanic tragedy, Congress passed the Radio
Act of 1912, which addressed the problem of amateur radio operators increasingly cramming
the airwaves.
Why were AT&T and GE able to undercut Marconi's influence with the U.S. Navy, even though
Marconi was the best company? - correct answer ✔✔The U.S. Navy was concerned about a
foreign-controlled company having so much power over their communications
As a new network, CBS was able to compete with NBC by? - correct answer ✔✔Paying affiliates
to broadcast its programs
With the Federal Communications Act of 1934, the Federal Radio Commission became the
______. - correct answer ✔✔Federal Communications Commission
