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WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY School of Communication Intro. to Media & Telecommunications Com. 2400 Study Guide 3.

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Administrative Agencies (U.S. government) FCC, FDA, SEC, FAA Importance of rulemaking Affiliate Stations achieving profitability Attenuation AT&T Divestiture – significance Organizational structure pre-1984 Bandwidth Bell, Alexander G. Bill of Rights, Constitution, reasons for Broadband Broadcast Industry Structure Advertisers Independent stations Network affiliate stations Program producers, distributors Public broadcasting Television networks Cable Networking, principle of Cable Television Industry Structure: Cable operators Program distributors CATV Cellular telephone grid Common Carrier Convergence, principle of Demographics Digital Communication Advantages and applications Binary logic, principle of Electromagnetic Spectrum Federal Communications Commission major bureaus mission – as an administrative agency powers of enforcement rulemaking capability First Amendment definition implied freedoms limits to 1st Amendment Frequency Frequency – Wavelength correlation Hertz (KHz., MHz., GHz.) Holmes, Oliver Wendell Clear and Present Danger Standard Home Box Office Cable networking Pay cable services Local Exchange Carriers AT&T, Verizon etc. Madison, James Modulation, AM & FM Owned and Operated Station (O&O) Public Broadcasting Corporation for Public Broadcasting National Public Radio Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Public Interest, principle of Program Distributors Paramount, Disney, 20th Century Fox etc. Radio Bands (frequency blocs) Regulation vs. Deregulation: principles of Satellite communication Direct Broadcast Satellite Footprint Sources of the law Smart Homes, principle of Spectrum Scarcity, principle of Standardization, principle of Syndication First run Off network Television Networks achieving profitability method for distributing program network affiliate relationship station clearance ( national reach), principle of Television Variety Shows, importance of Changes that affected the variety show concept Ed Sullivan show Transnational Media Corporation Turner, Ted United States Constitution Universal Service, principle of U.S. Constitution Vail, Theodore Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Walson, John Wavelength

Important Dates:

Telegraph demonstrated to US Congress, 1844 U.S. Civil War 1861-1865 Invention of the Telephone, 1876 Communications Act of 1934, significance of World War II. 1941-1945 (US) Divestiture of AT&T, 1984 Telecommunications Act of 1996