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The SingingFool was a big commercial disappointment, and it demonstrated that movie
fans were not ready for talking pictures.
Large media corporations have been afraid to use the Internet because it threatens
existing business models.
Movie studios in the United States still practice block booking and require that theaters
accept lesser films in order to get blockbuster movies.
One of the first materials on which people could write language and symbols,
was obtained from plant reeds found along the Nile River.
With its increased profile and flexibility across platforms, the gaming industry has
achieved a mass medium status on par with film or television.
In social science research, the group serves as a basis for comparison with
the experimental group.
In television,__________ is the process whereby a TV production company leases its
programs to a network for a license fee that is actually less than the cost of production.
In the 1920s, many radio stations went off the air because they couldn"t afford to pay
for the rights to broadcast recorded music.
Only a few TV series from the 1950s have survived, and that is because these few were
the only ones originally shot on film.
By law, nonprofit broadcasters are allocated 25 percent of all the broadcast frequencies
in the United States today.
Unlike print journalists who use press releases extensively, television journalists rarely
use VNRs (video news releases).
The New Yorker was the first city magazine aimed at a national upscale audience.
An underlying value held by most U.S. journalists and citizens, favors
individual rights and responsibilities over group needs or institutional mandates.
The nine screenwriters and one film director subpoenaed by the House Un-American
Activities Committee (HUAC), known as the , were sent to prison in the
late 1940s.
Between 1948 and 1952, no new licenses were issued to construct and operate TV
stations in the United States.
By the late 1820s, the average newspaper cost eighteen cents per copy.
A relatively recent technology, __________are devices that enable users to find and
record specific television shows (and movies) and store them in computer memory to be
played back at a later time.
In scriptwriting terminology, the discourse is how the story is told.
FM radio was an immediate commercial success and made its inventor a rich and happy
man.
The first home television game was called Pong.
