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Use the link below to answer all the questions. Write your answers on a piece of binder paper. Due Monday!
- Who invented the wirleless telegraph (Radio)?
- Describe what happened at the first radio broadcast in 1906:
- What two important contributions did Lee De Forest make?
- Why were all amatuer wireless stations shut down in April of 1917?
- In November of 1920 KDKA became the first station to go "on the air" - what event did they cover that night?
- What radio station aired the first radio ad in 1923?
- What were the first two networks?
- What was formed and passed in 1927?
- What radio show was #1 as the 1920's came to an end?
- Who was the countries first 'radio president'?
- What organization was formed in 1934? What does that organization regulate?
- Who invented FM radio?
- What new medium starts to catch on in the late 1940's that would compete with radio?
- How did the emergance of 'Rock and Roll' change local radio?
- What is format radio and who came up with the concept of format radio?
- What format dominated the early 1960's?
- How did the 1968 Monterey Pop Festival influence music on the radio?
- What is meant by the term 'Formats Fragment'?
- What did President Reagan do in the early 1980's that changed radio? What two departments suffered due to this change and faces layoffs and cuts?
- How many radio stations are on the air across the country by the late 1980's? How does the large number of radio stations relate to the term 'Niche Programming'?
Author:
Patrick Olson
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4/30/2020 5:05 PM (EDT)