Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later 3e
Norman J. Medoff and Barbara K. Kaye
TEST BANK: Chapter 2
True/False
1. Fewer lives would have been lost in the Titanic disaster if the ship had been equipped with
radio equipment.
2. David Sarnoff’s “radio music box” memo described a way to make money from broadcast
radio.
3. The Radio Corporation of America was created following World War I.
4. Until the 1940s, radio stations broadcasting music did not need to pay royalties to composers.
5. CBS was so successful that it operated two networks: CBS One and CBS Blue.
6. Airing radio newscasts was so controversial that it led to the newspaper (press)/radio war,
settled by the “Biltmore Agreement,” which placed a number of limitations on radio news.
7. During World War II, the government did not implement any war-related measures related to
radio broadcasting.
8. In the 1920s, most radio stations were run as sidelines to the main business of the company
holding the license.
9. Radio stations profited during World War II in part because advertisers weren’t able to buy as
much newspaper advertising as desired, so they bought radio advertising instead.
10. FM radio, which provides superior signal quality, rapidly overtook AM radio when it was
developed in the mid-1930s.
11. Satellite radio is a main contributor to the demise of over-the-air broadcasting.
13. LPFM (low-power FM) stations allow nonprofit organizations to reach their local
communities.
14. Most smartphones could receive radio broadcast signals, but very few phones have activated
the chip associated with such reception.
15. Intellectual property rights include performance rights and copyright.
Multiple Choice
16. Who invented the telegraph?
17. Which of the following was a challenge faced by the telegraph?
18. Who proved that electromagnetic energy travelled through the air?
19. Who performed the first practical demonstration of wireless transmission of signals?
20. The telephone and telegraph are examples of:
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D. all of the above
21. Lee De Forest invented
22. When the Titanic struck an iceberg on April 15, 1912,
23. Congress has the right to regulate broadcasting because
24. The term “broadcasting” has roots in
25. Prior to the Radio Act of 1927,
26. During World War I, the U.S. government
27. During World War I, patents related to wireless communication were
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B. got off to a slow start.
C. does not provide local information.
D. all of the above
29. DCMA stands for
30. Broadcasting as we know it began during the
31. Westinghouse was interested in broadcasting because it would
32. What was the first officially licensed broadcast station in the United States?
33. Toll broadcasting was/is
34. What we today refer to as a “network” was called ____ in the 1920s.
35. The Communications Act of 1934 created the FCC and