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Broadcast Management

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  • Answer 43 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Zip code - specific area






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






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






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






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






6. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Numbers over quality






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






18. Number of players.






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






20. Lifestyle patterns






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






22. 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






23. A place where consumers and sellers interact






24. 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






25. 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






26. When an ORIGINAL work is FIXED in any FORM


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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