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- parasocial relationship
- media relationship in which viewer has illusion that their friendship with media persona is real
- RIAA response to illegal music downloading and sharing of large music files over the internet
- they sued individuals and napster
- Morning Drive
- Radio time for morning listeners 6-10 A.M
- psychographics
- attributes to relating to personality, values, attitudes, interests or lifestyles.
- syndicated programs
- the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations without going through a broadcast network
- Thomas Edison
- Invented cylinder phonograph
- events that determined present economic structure of broadcasting in US
- rise of advertising agencies as radio shows producers, easy way to control content
- Independent Label
- A record label operating without the funding of or outside organizations of the major record labels.
- HUT
- homes using television, percentage of homes that have TV tunes to any channel
- how a.c nielsen company arrives as its ratings data
- diaries, peoplemeters and audimeters
- percentage of households indicated by 1 rating point
- 1%
- how do television networks pre test pilots
- subjects are invited to pre view a pilot and report their feelings about the program to help
- Louis Armstrong
- Most famous jazz musicians of the 20th Century.
- Emil Berliner
- Invented shellac disk system in use until development of CD's in 1980's and record disks simultaneously.
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- Criminalize to avoid anti piracy meaures built into most commercial software, outlaws manufacture, sale or distribution of code cracking devices used to illegally copy software and limits internet service providers from copyright violation liability for transmitting information over the internt.
- BMI
- Broadcast Music Inc, Performing rights organization and company that represents song writers and recording artists. They collect money from people who use music in the course of their business and then pays that money to the writers and publishers of the songs they use.
- Development of radio before WWI
- Radio was characterized by individual inventors
- Elvis Presley
- King of rock and roll, singer, musician and actor.
- Billboard
- weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. Maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track most popular songs and albums on a weekly basis.
- demographics
- refers to selected population characteristics for opinion research
- ASCAP
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Secures royalty payments for songwriters and musicians.
- public reaction to the movie birth of a nation
- 12 states barred it from exhibition, protests and demonstrations where it was shown in northern states, full scale riot when opened in boston, banned from exhibition in philadelphia til 1931
- shares
- percentage of homes tuned to a particular channel compared only with TV sets tuned on
- network compensation
- network pays affiliate to carry network shows
- ratings
- percentage of homes tuned to a particular channel
- communications act of 1934
- replaced the FRC with the FCC, they had the right to issue regulations pertaining to associations between broadcasting networks and their affiliated stations.
- Development of radio after WWI
- The radio was taken over by large corporations.
- affiliate
- radio or tv station that agrees to carry the broadcasts of, but not owned by, the network, ABC, NBC, CBC have about 200 affiliates each.
- Payola Scandel of 2007
- 4 major radio broadcast companies agreed to pay the government 12.5 million and provide 8,400 half hour segments of free airtime for independent record labels and local artists in separate agreements aimed at restricting the persistent practice of payola.
- response of police organizations to ice-t's song "cop killer"'
- boycott all products by time warner in order to secure the removal of the song and album from stores
- portable people meter
- device developed by arbitron to measure how many people are listening to individual radio stations and tv stations
- ownership trend in recording history
- trend is toward consolidation into fewer, large companies, effect of concentration, fewer records produced--less choice for consumer
- major ratings company for radio
- abitron
- Soundscan
- An information system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett that tracks sales data for singles, albums and music video products in Canada and the US for Billboard and other music industry companies
- Scott Joplin
- Composer of ragtime music.
- Payola Scandel of 1950
- ASCAP accused BMI of using payola to ensure airplay for BMI artists.
- criteria that radio station managers use in choosing a format
- what other local radio stations are airing, the compositions of their potential audiences, the potential for attracting certain demographic group of listeners to advertisers
- platinum
- 1 million album sales
- major ratings company for television
- a.c nielson
- who regulates cable television
- FCC and local municipalities
- people meter
- record the channel the TV is turned to and viewer demographics if they are punched in
- 4 Major recording companies that produce more than 80% of all recordings
- universal music group, sony bmg music entertainment, emi group and warner music group
- O&O
- owned and operated station, refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network which it is associated
- A&R department of record companies
- Artist and Repertoire Department; functions as talent scouts, responsible for product development, find musicians, over see cutting first record.
- number of commercial minutes per hour permitted during primetime on TV as oppsed to commercial minutes permitted on childrens programs
- 15 minutes, 10 1/2 to 12 minutes for children
- market
- area reached by a tv stations signal
- Battle of the speeds
- CBS- 33 1/3 rpm, RCA (NBC)- 45 rpm, Magnetic tape recording stolen from the Nazis.
- countries in which piracy is rampant
- brazil, china, india, indonesia, mexico, pakistan, paraguay, russia, spain and ukraine
- do affiliates pay their networks for programming, or do networks pay affiliates to air network programs
- network pays affiliate
- Benefits of MTV for musicians
- Provided new sounds the radio wouldn't touch. A rock video is necessary for a groups survival.
- relationship to wal mart to recording industry and sheryl crow's cd
- in song "love is a good thing" she talks about how guns sold by wal mart fall too easily into the hands of children, they did not sell the CD
- NAB
- national association of broadcasters, radio, television trade organizations
- percentage of households that have cable television
- 67%
- sweeps
- television surveys in north american, 4 times a year, measures the number of viewers in local market, sets advertising revenues
- Duke Ellington
- Composer, pianist and band leader. Most influential figures in jazz.
- gold record
- 500,000 album sales
- number of nielsen households in US
- 112.8 million
- RIAA response to PMRC's demand for warning labels on cd's
- riaa agreed to put parental advisory: explicit lyrics labels on selected releases.
- problems with nielsen ratings
- tv set is left on but no one is watching, ratings don't tell how much attention viewers to pay to tv, nothing is known about those who refuse to become, 10% of all people meters produce faulty data on any given day
- Origins of Rock and Roll
- Mixture of various popular musical genres of the time. Late 1940's and 50's.