Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later 3e
Norman J. Medoff and Barbara K. Kaye
TEST BANK: Chapter 7
True/False
1. Channel surfing, zipping, and zapping are disadvantages of advertising on broadcast TV but
not on cable TV.
2. New technologies have transformed advertising from “nonpersonal” and “mass mediated” into
an “art of engagement.”
3. The first advertising agency was opened by Volney B. Palmer in Boston.
4. Program sponsorship would have prevented the quiz show scandals in the 1950s.
5. Broadcast advertising allows audiences to be targeted much more selectively than cable
advertising does.
6. Advertising serves social, economic, and educational purposes.
7. National spot ads are those airing when a national advertiser buys time on a network of radio
stations.
8. One of radio advertising’s strengths is that radio is a background medium.
9. Television commercials are aired in groups called clusters or pods.
10. The term market in upfront markets, scatter markets, and opportunistic markets refers to time
frames.
11. The FCC requires programmers to disclose placement sponsors in the show’s credits.
12. Dollar for dollar, television is one of the most affordable advertising media.