Points of Consideration 7- 25 points
DUE: Monday October 29
Reading: Revolutions in Communication, pp.107-137, pp 138-209
Respond briefly to each question. Briefly define each vocabulary term. Perfectly follow these guidelines for a written paper.
How did the work of Maxwell and Hertz connect electricity to magnetism?
How did Marconi capitalize on electromagnetic waves?
What roles did the radio telegraph play in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912?
What two innovations did AT&T introduce to commercialize broadcast radio in the 1920s?
What were the three classes of radio stations the Federal Radio Commission established in 1928? How did it benefit radio networks?
Why did the Federal Radio Commission revoke the broadcast licenses of KFKB and KGEF in the early 1930s?
How did entertainment programming during the Golden Age of Radio borrow from Vaudeville?
Why did newspaper publishers and the wire services boycott broadcast radio?
How did radio function as an electronic hearth of the nation during the 1930s and 1940s?
How was the FCC’s “Blue Book” report on radio broadcasting similar to Hutchin’s Commission on Freedom of the Press?
How did radio adapt to the emergence of television in the 1950s?
How has digital technology transformed the recording industry in the 21c?
VOCABULARY first part of list are terms from book, second part from all sources)
National Broadcasting Company
Radio Act, 1912
David Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
Edward Murrow
Reginald Fesseden
Edwin Armstrong
satellite radio
Federal Radio Commission
talk radio
Fireside Chats
Guglielmo Marconi
iTunes Music Store
War of the Worlds broadcast
Lee de Forest
Wireless Ship Act, 1910
Capitol Records •
podcasting
MPEG–1,
Levels
Amos ‘n’ Andy
Napster
Spark Radio
AM Radio
Shortwave Radio
FM Radio
Records & CD
The Internet
Satellite Radio
Orson Welles
War of the Worlds
Red Barber
Vin Scully
underground radio
KRLA and KHJ
Admiral Byrd’s radio communications from the South Pole
Community based radio
microFM radio
solar powered FM radio stations
short waves
long waves
Rush Limbaugh
Voice of America
Wolfman Jack
Real Don Steele
Dick Clark
Amos‘n’Andy Napster
Capitol Records
National Broadcasting Company
Jammie Thomas-Rasset
podcasting
“clearchannel”station
Radio Act,1912
David Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
Edward Murrow
Reginald Fesseden
Edwin Armstrong
satellite radio
Federal Radio Commission
talkradio
Fireside Chats
toll broadcasting
Guglielmo Marconi
Top40
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