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Telecom Industry Management
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1. Local stations that transmit programs to viewers over (typically 200 of these)
analog payment
cash payment for syndication
senate
affiliates
2. Congress - makes laws
obscenity
total survey area
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
legislative branch
3. Do audience measurement for television
total survey area
nielson
share
indecent
4. Distribute programs to public tv stations - do not produce their own programs
retransmission consent
network/affiliate contract
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
5. Affiliates clear time to air network programs
random sampling
clearance
FCC organization
long tail theory
6. Corporation that owns many local cable systems - serve almost 2/3 of subscribers - linked together into clusters
senate - protect IP act
metro survey area (metro)
Public - educational - government
multiple systems operators
7. Station writes the syndicator a check for program
total survey area
FCC organization
cash payment for syndication
indecency
8. This person pointed out a problem so here is how we will address it
network compensation
marketplace approach
clearance
Memorandum opion and order (MO&O)
9. Hearings conducted regarding FCC violations
sampling error
How reverse compensation works
Laws
FCC adjudication
10. Largest local region of a market's listening audience (smaller portion of the total disgnated market area)
total survey area
Report and Order (R&O)
capricious
FNPRM (further notice of proposed rule making
11. Low demand products collectively can be profitable if store/distribution channel is large enough - niche markets will be mroe profictable for low demand products
syndication
marketplace approach
public interest approach
long tail theory
12. Estimates from representative sample will always be slightly off b/c the sample does not exactly match group being measured
share
sampling error
cutting the cord
cume
13. Publishing war plans
profane
constitution
harming national security
analog payment
14. Passed by Congress - set policies with any details congress wants - regulations - Must be consistent with law passed
analog payment
Public - educational - government
Laws
network compensation
15. Congress can change anything the FCC does by passing a law to overturn a regulation
congressional oversight
balancing tests
FCC organization
affiliates
16. Number of households tuned into a channel out of all households actually using their receiver (number of people watching LOST out of all individuals watching TV)
non sampling error
Houshold using television (hut)
share
total survey area
17. Do audience measurement for radio
sampling
constitution
network (national) content
arbitron
18. Passed in 1998 to protect digital works copyrights - illegal to circumvent technology that controls access to a copyrighted work or distribute products that circumvent the technology - no violation if you quickly respond to complaint
webcasting rates
chilling effect
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
indecency
19. All metro counties plus counties next to it if they have significant listenership
share
legislative branch
total survey area
Memorandum opion and order (MO&O)
20. Government sets predetermined fee and requires licenses to be granted - cable tv systems for redistribution of works aired on roadcast stations
Public - educational - government
compulsory license
arbitrary
first run syndication
21. Comprehensive review of licensing and regulating operations from FCC
random sampling
compensation
Federal reigister:
commercial broadcast station
22. 2 year term - 435 members - represent districts w/in a state
FCC adjudication
FCC organization
first 10 amendments (bill of rights)
house of reps
23. Negotiates the terms of partnership through a contract
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
must carry
network/affiliate contract
Memorandum opion and order (MO&O)
24. Distributed by broadcast or cable network - they provide 'good morning america' or soaps to fill time if you can't afford to produce content locally
random sampling
webcasting rates
constitution
network (national) content
25. Cable wants highest fee possible and MSO's want low fees to increase profit margins and keep rates low - MSO's have most leverage
first amendment
metro survey area (metro)
subscription fee battle
Administrative procedures act (APA)
26. Affiliates pay networks a fee for each subscriber on cable or satellite who can watch their channels
syndicated exclusivity
How reverse compensation works
Process of a bill
share
27. A broadcast station can require cable systems in the stations coverage area to pay for it for the use of its signals - fee can change every 3 years - if they don't agree then they boot off cable for 3 years
legislative branch
profane
retransmission consent
capricious
28. Speech protected by first amendment between adults during safe harbor
vaste wasteland speech
indecent
Local content
obscenity
29. Inconsistent - changing mind a lot
network non duplication rule
predicted audience
capricious
public interest approach
30. Language that depicts offensive by contemporary standards for broadcast medium of sexual acktivity or organs
capricious
support for vertical integration
libel
indecency
31. Exclusive broadcast rights for a certain number of episodes - certain number of runs per episode - for a fixed period of time
webcasting rates
station groups
sound exchange
syndicated exclusivity
32. Larger the sample - greater the reliability
FNPRM (further notice of proposed rule making
vaste wasteland speech
US house - stop online piracy act (SOPA)
size of sampling
33. Deliver content and services via wire - FCC regulations
cable television systems
relaxed
FCC
share
34. Failed neogtiations - high rates from copyright board
national spot advertising
prior restraint
problems with copyright fees
retransmission consent
35. Protects free speech and expression
14 usc 1464
first amendment
network ads
public broadcasting act of 1967
36. House and senate introcude bills into hopper - subcommittess review bill (energy committee - telecom committee) - rule committee decides how to adjust bill - house and senate compromise - sent to president
legislative branch
relaxed
first amendment
Process of a bill
37. Stations purchasing syndicated programs like jeopardy can prevent those programs from appearing on other stations in same market
national spot advertising
syndicated exclusivity
off network syndication
share
38. Attorney general can seek court order to block foreign sites
cume
point of diminishing return
predicted audience
US house - stop online piracy act (SOPA)
39. Anything obscene indecent or profane over radio will be fined or imprisoned for no more than two years
FCC adjudication
share
cash and barter for syndication
14 usc 1464
40. Sexual content without artistic or political significance
fcc vs Pacifics foundation
analog payment
barter for syndication
obscenity
41. Intentional or inadvertent mistake - recording/calculating errors - biased questions - manipulation of results
cable television systems
non sampling error
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
indecent
42. Purchase programs directly with delivery over broadband
adjacencies
FCC
point of diminishing return
cutting the cord
43. Decision was suddon - not reasoned - or made on the basis of too much power
network ads
network/affiliate contract
problems with copyright fees
arbitrary
44. Cd (composer - recording co. - and publisher) - radio (composer and publisher) - satellite radio (Record co -composer - bpublisher) - webcasting (record co and composer/publisher)
first 10 amendments (bill of rights)
total survey area
legislative branch
digital payment
45. 50 - 60% government and then subscribers - also business and state gov't
syndicated exclusivity
blanket license
public station funding
relaxed
46. Acts as a broker between local stations and advertisers - extension of local stations sales staff
cutting the cord
vaste wasteland speech
safe harbor
national rep firms
47. When a sample reaches a certain size the results are no longer reliable
point of diminishing return
support for vertical integration
local control
chilling effect
48. 1700 employees in DC - they get part of their pay from the fees collected by stations that must pay to be regulated by FCC
National Public Radio (NPR)
FCC organization
profane
syndicated exclusivity
49. Exchange of things of like worth like the proft of advertising
clearance
14 usc 1464
barter for syndication
chilling effect
50. Cable systems may not import other broadcast network affiliates
predicted audience
network non duplication rule
National Public Radio (NPR)
long tail theory