Exam 7: Radio, Recording, and Popular Music

Services that allow the simultaneous downloading and accessing of music are

The ownership and management of multiple radio stations in a single market by one person or company is called

What is the trustee model of broadcast regulation?

The _____________ established definitions of authority between federal and state governments,provided for the distribution and revocation of licenses,fined violators,assigned frequencies for operation,and set the hours during which a station was authorized to broadcast.

What were Lee DeForest's contributions to the development of radio?

What is the difference between an O&O and an affiliate?

The Radio Act of 1927 provided spectrum space for noncommercial radio,eventually developing into what we know today as National Public Radio.

The radio industry was on the brink of disaster in the 1920s and radio sales were down because

Lee DeForest's major contribution to the history of radio,other than the invention of the audion tube,was the development and popularization of the use of radio for

The three major recording companies,Sony,Universal,and Warner Music Group,own nearly ____ of the music market.

The first "talking machine," or sound-recording method,was developed in 1887 by

In 1916,David Sarnoff sent his ideas on how to make radio a "household utility" to his superiors at American Marconi.This now-famous memo is called the

What are secondary services? Provide an example of what might be a secondary service.

"Radio" that is delivered to people's homes through their cable and/or satellite television services is called

There is universal acceptance by the electronics industry of copy-protected CDs.

The P2P software which most fuels the contemporary recording industry's piracy fears is ______.This is file-sharing software that allows anonymous users to create "swarms" of data as they simultaneously download and upload "bits" of content from countless,untraceable servers.

Digital music sales have surpassed physical sales as of 2011.What are some of the reasons for this? Can you think of additional reasons? What does this mean for the recording industry and the musical artists within it?

Unlike most other media,the recording industry has not yet experienced concentration;to date,the three major recording companies control only 25% of the market in the United States.

The Radio Act of 1927 ensured that the airwaves belonged to

German immigrant Emile Berliner developed an improved sound recording device in 1887 called the