RTV 3001 - EXAM 1 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
What is telecommunication? - ANS Dissemination of messages over a distance
What is broadcasting? - ANS Originally from agriculture. The distribution of seeds. One to
many.
Recent trends in media ownership. - ANS consolidation, market convergence (fewer
companies owning more).
Technological Convergence - ANS Specific types of media, such as print, audio and video all
converging into a digital media form
Economic Convergence - ANS The merging of media corporations (i.e. Comcast with NBC
Universal)
Cultural Convergence - ANS Shared values, beliefs and practices influenced by how we
create, consume, and distribute media
Traditional content - ANS Broadcast through a pre-determined, pre-arranged schedule with
little if any consultation with audiences
On-demand content - ANS Audiences have more control over when they attend to content
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, Functions of Electronic Media: surveillance, correlation, cultural transmission, entertainment,
companionship, and connection - ANS
Weaknesses of wired communication - ANS Construction and Maintenance
Samuel Morse - ANS Invented the telegraph
Alexander G. Bell - ANS Invented the telephone
Heinrich Hertz - ANS Demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic radiation
Guglielmo Marconi - ANS Obtains patent for his wireless telegraph
Initial uses of radio before broadcasting - ANS for contacting people, journalists, military, and
ships
Titanic and its affect on radio regulation and shipping industry - ANS Radio Act of 1912
Radio Act of 1912 - ANS Regulatory Authority to Secretary of Commerce, Set Frequencies
and Hours of Operation, Had to Issue License on Application
Reginald Fesseden - ANS demonstrated that voice could be transmitted over the "ether."
Audion. Lee DeForest - ANS made it possible to amplify weak radio signals
Navy and WWI's effect on radio development - ANS The Navy assumed all responsibility for
patent infringement and installed radio equipment in all of its ships. By the end of the war,
technology had advanced rapidly as a result of the Navy's actions.
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AND ANSWERS
What is telecommunication? - ANS Dissemination of messages over a distance
What is broadcasting? - ANS Originally from agriculture. The distribution of seeds. One to
many.
Recent trends in media ownership. - ANS consolidation, market convergence (fewer
companies owning more).
Technological Convergence - ANS Specific types of media, such as print, audio and video all
converging into a digital media form
Economic Convergence - ANS The merging of media corporations (i.e. Comcast with NBC
Universal)
Cultural Convergence - ANS Shared values, beliefs and practices influenced by how we
create, consume, and distribute media
Traditional content - ANS Broadcast through a pre-determined, pre-arranged schedule with
little if any consultation with audiences
On-demand content - ANS Audiences have more control over when they attend to content
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, Functions of Electronic Media: surveillance, correlation, cultural transmission, entertainment,
companionship, and connection - ANS
Weaknesses of wired communication - ANS Construction and Maintenance
Samuel Morse - ANS Invented the telegraph
Alexander G. Bell - ANS Invented the telephone
Heinrich Hertz - ANS Demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic radiation
Guglielmo Marconi - ANS Obtains patent for his wireless telegraph
Initial uses of radio before broadcasting - ANS for contacting people, journalists, military, and
ships
Titanic and its affect on radio regulation and shipping industry - ANS Radio Act of 1912
Radio Act of 1912 - ANS Regulatory Authority to Secretary of Commerce, Set Frequencies
and Hours of Operation, Had to Issue License on Application
Reginald Fesseden - ANS demonstrated that voice could be transmitted over the "ether."
Audion. Lee DeForest - ANS made it possible to amplify weak radio signals
Navy and WWI's effect on radio development - ANS The Navy assumed all responsibility for
patent infringement and installed radio equipment in all of its ships. By the end of the war,
technology had advanced rapidly as a result of the Navy's actions.
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