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Broadcast Management

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1. An estimate of the number of people or households viewing or listening to a particular program based no the actual number of viewers or listeners at a given time. (Shown as a larger percentage)






2. 1. Mergers and acquisitions 2. Joint ownership 3. Joint ventures 4. Formal and informal cooperative ventures






3. Numbers over quality






4. 1. Geographical boundaries 2. Ranked by the size of population






5. 1. The product and 2. the geographic aspects of the market






6. 1. Lead-in (best - strongest - most popular program - first!) 2. Hammocking (weaker program - in between two stronger programs) 3. Tent-poling (strong show in middle off two weaker) 4. Counter-programming (go for next largest audience) 5. Stunting (d






7. 1. Capital investment a. Equipment b. Personnel c. Programming 2. Regulatory policy






8. 1. Monopoly 2. Oligopoly 3. Monopolistic competition 4. Perfect competition






9. Number of players.






10. 1. Personnel 2. Fragmentation 3. Creating enterprise value






11. 1. Premium services 2. Negotiate with individual cable networks 3. Pay each network a set fee per subscriber 4. The need for new and recycled programming






12. 1. Terrestrial broadcasting 2. Cable 3. Wireless internet






13. 1. Local broadcast channels 2. Public access 3. Educational and governmental programs (PEGs) 4. a limited number of cable networks






14. Combines demographic and psygraphic data with geological locations and clusters; 2. Is used frequently in advertising and marketing






15. 1. Concentration of ownership 2. Less free exchange of ideas






16. 1. Sharing capital and costs 2. Access to new markets 3. Shareholder value






17. 1. Focus groups 2. Program testing 3. Call-out research






18. 1. Technical aspects 2. Local-air staff or satellite distribution 3. Commercial density (how many commercials?)






19. Lifestyle patterns






20. 1. capture an existing audience 2. Reach the new audience






21. 1. Already copyrighted material 2. In the public domain 3. common phrases and ideas 4. discoveries and inventions






22. 1. Rising costs 2. Regulatory concerns 3. Utilization of the internet






23. 1. US Constitution - Article 1 - section 8 2. title 17 of the United States Code 3. The Copyright Act of 1976






24. 1. Intra-industry (eg - consolidation of the radio) 2. Inter-industry (eg - consolidation of AOL/Time Warner)






25. VALs(Values - Attitudes - and Lifestyle) 1. Activities 2. Opinions 3. Interests 4. needs 5. Personality






26. 1. Multicasting 2. Subscription 3. E-commerce






27. 1. America is growing older 2. Ethnic change (more Latinos) 3. Information systems permeate






28. A place where consumers and sellers interact






29. 1. National research services 2. Industry and trade associations 3. Professional consulting firms. Individualized and expensive 4. Local research departments






30. When an ORIGINAL work is FIXED in any FORM

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31. 1. Created after Jan. 1 - 1978 - protected for author's life plus 70 years 2. Created 'for hire' after Jan 1 - 1978 - protected for 95 years






32. 1. Demographic research 2. Psychographic research 3. Geo demographic research






33. 1. Program and budget 2. Acquisition 3. Scheduling 4. Evaluation 5. Interpersonal






34. 1. News 2. Sports 3. Children's programming 4. Public affairs programs






35. 1. Estimates the numbers of viewers and listeners 2. Variety of categories 3. Time periods (or dayparts)






36. 1. Major market (1-50) 2. Medium market (51-100) 3. Small market (100+)






37. An estimate of the number of people or households viewing or listening to a particular program - off all potential audience members






38. 1. Early morning (7-9 am) 2. Daytime (10am-4pm) 3. Prime time (7-11) 4. Late night (11:30 pm-1 am) 5. Overnight (1-7 am) 6. Weekend mornings and afternoons.






39. 1. Representative of the whole 2. Random - exclusive 3. Generalizability 4. Systematic Error






40. 1. Identify its strengths and weaknesses 2. Understand ratings terminology 3. Interpreting the data






41. 1. a well-defined target audience 2. High quality proramming 3. High technical (Statistics)






42. 1. Concentration of buyers and sellers in the market 2. Differentiation among products 3. Barriers to entry for new competitors 4. Cost structures 5. Vertical integration






43. Zip code - specific area