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Telecom Industry Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Cannot prevent speech over radio






2. Exclusive broadcast rights for a certain number of episodes - certain number of runs per episode - for a fixed period of time






3. Courts cannot prevent you from talking but can punish you if your speech violates first amendment






4. Conducts hearings - does research - and summarizes the law and violation






5. Companies have fewer employees - offer less jobs - and own too much which prevents competition and narrows the content






6. Affiliates pay networks a fee for each subscriber on cable or satellite who can watch their channels






7. Estimates from representative sample will always be slightly off b/c the sample does not exactly match group being measured






8. Television is a toaster with pictures and people will watch whatever you put on there






9. vague open ended inquiry of 'what should I do?' typically from telecom companies






10. Counties grouped together around most watched stations near central city






11. Based on network track record






12. Congress - makes laws






13. Publishing war plans






14. Passed by Congress - set policies with any details congress wants - regulations - Must be consistent with law passed






15. PEG channels






16. Inconsistent - changing mind a lot






17. Which control is more limited - local or national?






18. Attract and retain audiences that can be sold to advertisers






19. Exchange of things of like worth like the proft of advertising






20. Ads on broadcast and cable networks to reach a national audience






21. Attorney general can seek court order to block foreign sites






22. Created corporation for public broadcasting - grant contracts for programs production - set up connection - encourage creation of new public stations - conduct research/train for public stations






23. National advertisers reaching particular geographic regions by purchasing spots by local stations






24. When a sample reaches a certain size the results are no longer reliable






25. Low demand products collectively can be profitable if store/distribution channel is large enough - niche markets will be mroe profictable for low demand products






26. People will want to watch trash tv like lesbians and food eating contests and those high ratings will control content. You cannot control content by inserting educational/cultuarl shows






27. Corporation that owns many local cable systems - serve almost 2/3 of subscribers - linked together into clusters






28. Laws are vague so people change all of their conent to stay away from indecency violations






29. This person pointed out a problem so here is how we will address it






30. Negotiates the terms of partnership through a contract






31. Program originally produced for a network now being syndicated (friends - family guy)






32. Failed neogtiations - high rates from copyright board






33. Cd (composer - recording co. - and publisher) - radio (composer and publisher) - satellite radio (Record co -composer - bpublisher) - webcasting (record co and composer/publisher)






34. Larger the sample - greater the reliability






35. Do audience measurement for radio






36. Using laws of chance or probability to make estimate about population from small sample of population






37. Affiliates clear time to air network programs






38. TV may reach 39% of national audience - no more than 2 stations in market






39. Broadcast stations and local cable insertions bought by businesses in same marker (grocery - furniture store)






40. Government limits on group ownership have been stressed or relaxed over years






41. Broadcast indcent media between 10pm and 6am






42. Composer/publisher






43. Creates efficient companies who drive the economy and produce more options and cheaper products for customers






44. Largest local region of a market's listening audience (smaller portion of the total disgnated market area)






45. Hearings conducted regarding FCC violations






46. # TV's actually on out of all people who own tv






47. Station writes the syndicator a check for program






48. Cable wants highest fee possible and MSO's want low fees to increase profit margins and keep rates low - MSO's have most leverage






49. 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






50. 'We listened to everyone's comments and now we will do...' - petitions for reconsideration is the last chagne to have FCC reconsider