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With the establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1967, nonprofit
radio and television stations no longer had to ask their audiences for financial support.
The Motion Picture Patents Company was established in 1908 to share film technology
with independent filmmakers.
An oligopoly exists when a few companies control an industry.
McGuffey's The EclecticReader was used to teach most nineteenth-century elementary
school children to read.
were weekly ten-minute magazine-style compilations of filmed news
events from around the world.
Appropriating a writer's or artist's words or music without consent or payment is a form
of expression that is not protected as speech.
The first colonial magazines published by Andrew Bradford and Benjamin Franklin
enjoyed instant success and continued for several years.
Though independently owned, __________are radio or TV stations that sign a contract
to be part of a network and receive money to carry the network's programs.
Currently, both print journalists and broadcasters need federal licenses to operate their
businesses.
In 1948, the FCC approved 10-watt FM stations, allowing more people to participate in
radio.
The existence of the Motion Picture Patents Company led some independent producers
to make their pictures in faraway Hollywood.
Unlike Edison's phonograph, Emile Berliner's gramophone played flat disks.
A style of early-twentieth-century investigative journalism, refers to
reporters crawling around in society's muck to uncover a story.
Time shifting refers to the delay of broadcast programs because of different time zones
across the United States.
is a media research argument that says that when the mass media pay
attention to particular events or issues, they determine the major topics of discussion for
individuals and society.
The vast majority of the top radio talk-show hosts promote conservative viewpoints.
