JLMC Exam 2 questions well answered
to pass (latest update)
Competition among media meant that with the arrival of television, radio became obsolete. -
correct answer ✔✔False
Guglielmo Marconi is credited with creating FM radio. - correct answer ✔✔False
During his lifetime, Nikola Tesla received much recognition for his wireless inventions. - correct
answer ✔✔False
The Titanic sank in 1912, resulting in the loss of about fifteen hundred lives; had it not been for
radio, seven hundred additional lives would have been lost. - correct answer ✔✔True
The American Marconi Company had trouble developing as a business after World War 1 in
party because of the US 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 road 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
Network radio helped modernize America by deemphasizing local in favor of national programs.
- correct answer ✔✔True
The Radio Act of 1972 created the Radio Corporation of America. - correct answer ✔✔False
, Throughout radio's early history- from the 1920s through the 1940s-advertisers exercised very
little control over program content. - correct answer ✔✔False
FM radio was an immediate commercial success and made its inventor a rich and happy man. -
correct answer ✔✔False
The vast majority of the top radio talk-show hosts promote conservative viewpoints. - correct
answer ✔✔True
Politicians have threatened to cut government funding for public broadcasting. - correct answer
✔✔True
Internet radio stations are those that either stream or simulcast a version of their on-air signal
over the Web. or create a station exclusive to the Internet. - correct answer ✔✔True
Payola is the practice of record promoters paying deejays to play certain songs on the air. -
correct answer ✔✔True
The nation's largest radio network is owned by telephone giant AT&T. - correct answer ✔✔False
Idahoan Philo Farnsworth is credited with transmitting the first TV picture electronically when
he was only twenty-one years old. - correct answer ✔✔True
The quiz-show scandals of the 1950's provided the first indication that TB images could be
manipulated. - correct answer ✔✔True
A communication satellite that is geosynchronous orbit circles the earth at the same speed at
which the earth revolves on its axis. - correct answer ✔✔True
to pass (latest update)
Competition among media meant that with the arrival of television, radio became obsolete. -
correct answer ✔✔False
Guglielmo Marconi is credited with creating FM radio. - correct answer ✔✔False
During his lifetime, Nikola Tesla received much recognition for his wireless inventions. - correct
answer ✔✔False
The Titanic sank in 1912, resulting in the loss of about fifteen hundred lives; had it not been for
radio, seven hundred additional lives would have been lost. - correct answer ✔✔True
The American Marconi Company had trouble developing as a business after World War 1 in
party because of the US 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 road 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
Network radio helped modernize America by deemphasizing local in favor of national programs.
- correct answer ✔✔True
The Radio Act of 1972 created the Radio Corporation of America. - correct answer ✔✔False
, Throughout radio's early history- from the 1920s through the 1940s-advertisers exercised very
little control over program content. - correct answer ✔✔False
FM radio was an immediate commercial success and made its inventor a rich and happy man. -
correct answer ✔✔False
The vast majority of the top radio talk-show hosts promote conservative viewpoints. - correct
answer ✔✔True
Politicians have threatened to cut government funding for public broadcasting. - correct answer
✔✔True
Internet radio stations are those that either stream or simulcast a version of their on-air signal
over the Web. or create a station exclusive to the Internet. - correct answer ✔✔True
Payola is the practice of record promoters paying deejays to play certain songs on the air. -
correct answer ✔✔True
The nation's largest radio network is owned by telephone giant AT&T. - correct answer ✔✔False
Idahoan Philo Farnsworth is credited with transmitting the first TV picture electronically when
he was only twenty-one years old. - correct answer ✔✔True
The quiz-show scandals of the 1950's provided the first indication that TB images could be
manipulated. - correct answer ✔✔True
A communication satellite that is geosynchronous orbit circles the earth at the same speed at
which the earth revolves on its axis. - correct answer ✔✔True
