Deck 3: Television: From Analog to Digital to 8K

Question 1

Broadcast affiliates are independent stations without network associations.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Independent stations receive the highest levels of station compensation from networks.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Microwave transmission allowed CATV systems to import signals from distant large markets.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

TV stations stream video, but rarely use the internet to connect to viewers.

Question 5

Cable and satellite systems are facing challenges due to cord-cutters, but are quickly recovering the lost revenue by providing high-speed broadband.

Question 6

U.S.Senator Joseph McCarthy was closely associated with blacklisting.

Question 7

Television made its first public debut in 1939 at the New York World's Fair.

Question 8

The freeze on television licenses was lifted in 1952.

Question 9

World War II halted the development of commercial television broadcasting.

Question 10

SMATV represents the evolution of MMDS.

Question 11

CATV can be considered a forerunner of modern-day cable television.

Question 12

Early television was dominated by networks.

Question 13

Early DBS was not allowed to provide local broadcast station signals to subscribers, until government regulation allowed it in the late 1990s.

Question 14

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) adopted the broadcast standard used in HDTV.

Question 15

Who was associated with the development of television?

A)Philo T.Farnsworth
B)John Logie Baird
C)Vladimir Zworykin
D)all of the above

Question 16

What is an iconoscope?

A)radio audio tube
B)photosensitive television camera tube
C)precursor to the transistor radio
D)mechanical television system

Question 17

Which of the following is true of digital television?

A)it can broadcast in standard definition or high definition
B)its aspect ratio is 16:9
C)its signals cannot be received on analog sets without a converter box
D)all of the above

Question 18

The color television system that was finally adopted as an industry-wide system prior to the 2009 digital conversion was developed by:

A)CBS Laboratories
B)General Electric
C)RCA
D)Lee de Forest

Question 19

The freeze on television station licenses was lifted as part of the FCC's:

A)Sixth Report and Order
B)Telecommunications Act of 1952
C)Television Spectrum Act
D)Field Sequential Order of 1948

Question 20

In terms of transmission and reception, UHF television stations were historically:

A)better than VHF stations in almost all terrains
B)better than VHS stations only in mountainous terrain
C)the same as VHF stations
D)worse than VHF stations

Question 21

A precursor to PBS, the National Educational Television (NET) network was called a:

A)bicycle network
B)elitist network
C)production network
D)both A & C

Question 22

What did the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 create?

A)National Educational Television
B)National Public Television
C)Corporation for Public Broadcasting
D)Public Broadcasting Network

Question 23

Which of the following would find it most difficult to offer broadband Internet service?

A)cable TV provider
B)satellite TV provider
C)telephone service provider
D)none of the above can offer broadband Internet service

Question 24

Broadcast networks may find that profitability increasingly depends on their ability to

A)deliver live programs (e.g., news and sports)
B)vertically integrate
C)utilize new programming services, delivery systems, and technologies
D)all of the above

Question 25

Cable television originally started:

A)as an experiment for two-way communications
B)in hopes of competing with movie theaters
C)as a joint venture with AT&T and the local telephone companies
D)to bring television signals into remote areas with poor TV reception

Question 26

Which congressional act mandated that all television sets be manufactured with both a VHF and a UHF dial?

A)Sixth Report and Order
B)The All-Channel Receiver Act
C)The Duopoly Act
D)Prime Time Access Rule

Question 27

Which of the following best describes network clearance?

A)Networks pay affiliates for airing network programming
B)Affiliate stations pay the network to receive network programming
C)Affiliate stations air the programs supplied by the network
D)None of the above

Question 28

The blacklist in broadcasting, during the 1950s-1960s, reflected fear of ____?

A)communism
B)commercialism
C)television violence
D)technical interference

Question 29

Which of the following are systems of importing/distributing television signals?

A)community antennas
B)microwave transmission
C)both A & B
D)none of the above

Question 30

Carriage rules____.

A)require cable systems to carry signals from significantly viewed local stations
B)are no longer in effect
C)both A & B
D)none of the above

Question 31

Noncommercial television channels were reserved as a result of:

A)Sixth Report and Order
B)Telecommunications Act of 1952
C)National Educational Television Network Act
D)The Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Question 32

A stationary satellite in orbit 22,300 miles above the earth's equator is a ________?

A)low-orbit satellite
B)middle-earth orbiting satellite
C)geosynchronous satellite
D)none of the above

Question 33

In 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minow referred to television as:

A)a "revenue opportunity"
B)a "vast wasteland"
C)the "rescuer of democracy"
D)none of the above

Question 34

Over the top (OTT) is/are _____?

A)Taxation of satellite-delivered television content
B)Extending the prime time period by an hour per night (beginning an hour earlier)
C)Settings that cable/satellite customers can control, to limit excessive violence
D)Streaming services that provide content directly to TV viewing audiences