Exam 10: Engineering

FM stations are assigned frequencies between 88.1 and 107.9 mHz

What is one of the most important requirements to become a radio broadcasting engineer?

The four classifications of FM stations are class C, B, A, and class D. Of those four, the most powerful is:

The government of _________recently announced the decision to eliminate analog FM radio in the next two years, making it the first country in the world to do so.

Describe the difference between FM and AM.

Which is NOT an example of an off-air promotion?

AM stations are assigned frequencies between 535 and ____kHz

What is the most important requirement to become hired as a radio broadcasting engineer?

A Station's Proof of _________involves checking the station's technical performance: frequency response, harmonic distortion levels, FM noise level, AM noise level, stereo separation, crosstalk, and subcarrier suppression.

Of AM and FM, which is the type of transmission that is limited to line-of-sight?

Today, almost all radio stations use hard drive based automation systems.

What are the geographical limits of Internet radio?

What is the geographical reach of internet radio?

The practice of voice-tracking is increasing the number of announcing jobs.

The forerunner to the Emergency Alert System, announced by the FCC in 1994 was the___, originally created in 1963.

What are some of the advantages of DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting)?

In the mid-1960s, the FCC required that AM/FM operations in markets of greater than 100,000 must do what?

What is one of the main advantages of FM signals?

In 2002, the FCC approved a technology known as IBOC(In-Band, on-channel) for ___________AM and FM broadcasting.