Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Correct
Q.1) The term "bit" is formed by compressing two terms; they are:
A. Binary, Digit (your answer)
B. Binary, Terminal
C. Basic, Intelligence
D. Broadcast, Digital
E. None of the above
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Q.2) In the basic transaction in commercial broadcasting,
A. Consumers buy programs directly from networks
B. Advertisers sell their products to audiences (your answer)
C. Advertisers buy shows from production companies
D. Networks buy programs from affiliated stations
E. Broadcasters sell their audiences to advertisers (correct answer)
Correct
Q.3) In order to describe the speed of bits flowing in data streams, engineers refer to "bit rates," which are measured in:
A. Frequencies
B. Cycles
C. Hertz
D. Bits per Second (bps) (your answer)
E. Bytes (kilo, mega, giga)
Correct
Q.4) The Swedish engineer whose design was to rethink analogous waves of energy in terms of dots and dashes was:
A. Harry Nyquist (your answer)
B. Claude Shannon
C. Warren Weaver
D. John Mauchly
E. J. Presper Eckert
Wrong
Q.5) This part of the personal computer is important because it translates software applications for the CPU.
A. Operating System (OS) (correct answer)
B. Storage Memory
C. Random Access Memory (RAM) (your answer)
D. Floppy Disk Drive
E. Mouse
Wrong
Q.6) The only true broadcasters in the U.S. system are:
A. Fiber-Optics Webs
B. Broadcast Networks (your answer)
C. Cable Systems (your answer)
D. Local Stations (correct answer)
E. Internet Sites (your answer)
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Q.7) The broadcast industry rests on a three-legged stool of these economic factors:
A. Station, Station Group, Network (your answer)
B. Broadcaster, Producer, Advertiser (your answer)
C. Revenue, Payroll, Profit (your answer)
D. Researcher, Producer, Marketer (your answer)
E. Broadcaster, Audience, Advertiser (correct answer)(your answer)
Wrong
Q.8) Unlike most countries, the United States began early to allow broadcasting to operate as:
A. A national treasure
B. Private enterprise (correct answer)
C. An arm of government (your answer)
D. The chief entertainer
E. None of the above
Wrong
Q.9) Media corporations are said to be seeking synergy when they:
A. Replace their accounting firms with in-house auditors (your answer)
B. Break ground for broadcast stations in new locations (your answer)
C. Sell off stations to avoid violating FCC ownership rules
D. Get into carriage battles with local cable systems
E. Acquire companies that can work together in creative ways (correct answer)
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Q.10) One major breakthrough in the development of the personal computer was the addition of icons and visual links to replace text-based commands in the computer's operating system. This innovation was called:
A. Pulse Code Modulation
B. Quantization
C. Graphic User Interface (GUI) (your answer)
D. Sampling
E. Data Storage
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Q.11) Among the most popular radio personalities syndicated in the United States has been:
A. Jon Stewart
B. Noam Chomsky
C. Maury Povich
D. Paul Harvey (your answer)
E. Rick Emerson
Wrong
Q.12) Networks and their affiliates have argued over how much a network has to pay a station in:
A. Licensing fees
B. Barter minutes
C. Compensation (comp.) (correct answer)
D. Accounting credits
E. Advertising funds (your answer)
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Q.13) Sometimes a radio manager, seeing a weakness in a rival station, will:
A. Adopt that station's format, hoping to do it better and lure away listeners (your answer)
B. Exploit the weakness through an aggressive negative-advertising campaign
C. Avoid using the same music format, fearing that it may be inherently weak
D. Try to develop a network of spies within the rival station to make it weaker
E. None of the above
Wrong
Q.14) One tool that many radio stations use to analyze the timing and competitiveness of their programs is the:
A. Music Chart (your answer)
B. Hot Clock (correct answer)
C. Playlist
D. Computer
E. Newsletter
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Q.15) If a TV network broadcasts a female-oriented sitcom when its top rival is airing a pro football game, that's usually called:
A. Evasive Action
B. Audience Raiding
C. Hammocking
D. Block Tentpoling
E. Counterprogramming (your answer)
Wrong
Q.16) A fundamental change from the 1970's is that big-time television today no longer has:
A. News divisions as "loss leaders" (correct answer)
B. African-American correspondents
C. Assignment desks
D. Labor unions (your answer)
E. Foreign bureaus
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Q.17) The TV program credited with (or blamed for) making profitability mandatory in news is:
A. PBS' McNeil-Lehrer News Hour
B. CBS' 60 Minutes (correct answer)
C. CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 (your answer)
D. ABC's 20-20
E. CNBC's The News with Brian Williams
Wrong
Q.18) The number of local TV stations in the country from which newscasts flow is about:
A. 600
B. 800 (correct answer)
C. 1,000 (your answer)
D. 300
E. None of the Above
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Q.19) Overall, the largest sector of U.S. broadcast journalism today is:
A. Public-Radio News
B. Syndicated Radio News
C. Network TV News
D. Local TV news (your answer)
E. Local Radio News
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Q.20) On average, TV-news salaries are very low, starting at little more than:
A. $18,000 a year (your answer)
B. $700 a week
C. $20,000 a year (correct answer)
D. $1,500 a month
E. $25,000 a year
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Political Article
Crisis in Libya - Libya Civil War 2011
Gadaffi's 42 year rule in Libya has attained plenty of Libyan citizens and other nations' attention. It's mainly a tribal issue and the fact that Libya was created for the convenience of European imperialism. Libya was always administered as two (unofficially three) separate areas due to tribal differences until those loosely Ottoman provinces were invaded by Italy. The eastern and coastal tribes marginalized the interior tribes and supported the king until Kadaffi (an interior tribe member) assumed control. His tribe is fighting to maintain the power he gave them. Nothing that the west should get involved in.
-Gadaffi
The major reason of the Libyan Civil War is the desire of the people of Libya to live with the freedom and liberty to live their lives. The people of Libya have lived under the iron fist, totalitarian, despotic rule of Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi for decades and want a different future.
-A young Libyan girl
Like most of the other Middle East and North African tyrants, Gadaffi rose to power during the appeasement presidency of Jimmy Carter. If it had not been for Carter, and the US had had a president like Reagan at that point, The Saddam Gadaffi Mubarak Khomenei regimes, would have never been given breathing room to sprout.
Gadaffi's 42 year rule in Libya has attained plenty of Libyan citizens and other nations' attention. It's mainly a tribal issue and the fact that Libya was created for the convenience of European imperialism. Libya was always administered as two (unofficially three) separate areas due to tribal differences until those loosely Ottoman provinces were invaded by Italy. The eastern and coastal tribes marginalized the interior tribes and supported the king until Kadaffi (an interior tribe member) assumed control. His tribe is fighting to maintain the power he gave them. Nothing that the west should get involved in.
-Gadaffi
The major reason of the Libyan Civil War is the desire of the people of Libya to live with the freedom and liberty to live their lives. The people of Libya have lived under the iron fist, totalitarian, despotic rule of Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi for decades and want a different future.
-A young Libyan girl
Like most of the other Middle East and North African tyrants, Gadaffi rose to power during the appeasement presidency of Jimmy Carter. If it had not been for Carter, and the US had had a president like Reagan at that point, The Saddam Gadaffi Mubarak Khomenei regimes, would have never been given breathing room to sprout.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Final Cut Review
Final Cut Movie Review
Robin Williams plays Alan, a 51-year-old man in a futuristic world whose career consists of cutting peoples’ life memories when they pass away. This is to be made into a presentation or a ‘Rememory’ to be shown to the deceased person’s family and friends. The ‘Zoe Eye’ invention is placed into the back of a newborn’s head. This item must be purchased beforehand.
This film’s camera angles are extraordinary and unreal. The cemetery scene really gives the audience a sense of grief when Alan puts the necklace onto the cemetery stone as the camera pans around to the back and gets a good front body view of Alan and his emotions.
The plot for Alan really starts to thicken when he takes on an assignment involving a well-known commercial lawyer named Bannister, whom just so happened to work for the leading manufacturer of ReMemory technology. His widow Jennifer (Stephanie Romanov of TV’s “Angel”) is the first person to ever successfully sue to have an employee’s chip removed from company storage, and those on the forefront against what they see as insidious invasion of privacy want to get their hands on it at all costs. Leading this charge is former Cutter and friend of Alan’s named Fletcher (Jim Caviezel), and he’s not afraid to resort to violence to get his hands on it, even if it means putting his old compatriot in harm’s way.
What should happen next is a blow-by-blow examination of the goods and evils of just this sort of technology. In an age where discussion of the Patriot Act and our very own personal liberties are thrust under a microscope in the face of global terrorism, the very idea of constant and all-pervasive surveillance isn’t too far out of the realm of possibility. But Naïm’s film plods forward with all the dramatic momentum of a carnival sideshow, and once you get past the eye-catching exterior there’s little of substance hiding behind the curtain. It doesn’t help that every time the director raises an intriguing idea or plot possibility; Bannister turns out to have been molesting his own daughter, while the emotionally cloistered Hakman is dating a woman (Mira Sorvino) he became attracted to while cutting another’s ReMemory.
I give this movie: 7/10
Robin Williams plays Alan, a 51-year-old man in a futuristic world whose career consists of cutting peoples’ life memories when they pass away. This is to be made into a presentation or a ‘Rememory’ to be shown to the deceased person’s family and friends. The ‘Zoe Eye’ invention is placed into the back of a newborn’s head. This item must be purchased beforehand.
This film’s camera angles are extraordinary and unreal. The cemetery scene really gives the audience a sense of grief when Alan puts the necklace onto the cemetery stone as the camera pans around to the back and gets a good front body view of Alan and his emotions.
The plot for Alan really starts to thicken when he takes on an assignment involving a well-known commercial lawyer named Bannister, whom just so happened to work for the leading manufacturer of ReMemory technology. His widow Jennifer (Stephanie Romanov of TV’s “Angel”) is the first person to ever successfully sue to have an employee’s chip removed from company storage, and those on the forefront against what they see as insidious invasion of privacy want to get their hands on it at all costs. Leading this charge is former Cutter and friend of Alan’s named Fletcher (Jim Caviezel), and he’s not afraid to resort to violence to get his hands on it, even if it means putting his old compatriot in harm’s way.
What should happen next is a blow-by-blow examination of the goods and evils of just this sort of technology. In an age where discussion of the Patriot Act and our very own personal liberties are thrust under a microscope in the face of global terrorism, the very idea of constant and all-pervasive surveillance isn’t too far out of the realm of possibility. But Naïm’s film plods forward with all the dramatic momentum of a carnival sideshow, and once you get past the eye-catching exterior there’s little of substance hiding behind the curtain. It doesn’t help that every time the director raises an intriguing idea or plot possibility; Bannister turns out to have been molesting his own daughter, while the emotionally cloistered Hakman is dating a woman (Mira Sorvino) he became attracted to while cutting another’s ReMemory.
I give this movie: 7/10
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