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Telecom Industry Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Congress can change anything the FCC does by passing a law to overturn a regulation






2. A title for the payment of artists for their performance






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






4. Prohibit anyone from promoting foreign websites that illegally sell copyrighted works






5. Deliver content and services via wire - FCC regulations






6. Based on network track record






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






8. Broadcast tv stations demand local cable tv systems carry their stations on cable line up - cable gets to carry station for free - no payment to the broadcast station






9. Annual fee negotiated with licencing organizations to use all of the music controlled by that organization






10. Who gets the cash






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






12. Holds license from gov't - transmits programs over airwaves - carries commercial messages to promotes products






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






14. Must wait 30 days to respond (slow motion debate)






15. What happened when suddenly cable could provide and pay for all programs and networks decided they want user to pay for programs - networks insist affiliates pay for network programs






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






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






18. Combo of money and part of advertising revenue - number one method of syndication






19. A lot of different companies in the same industry






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






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






22. Sexual content without artistic or political significance






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






24. Publishing a false statement about someone to ruin their reputation






25. 1700 employees in DC - they get part of their pay from the fees collected by stations that must pay to be regulated by FCC






26. Composer/publisher






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






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






29. 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






30. Broadcast indcent media between 10pm and 6am






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






32. Most stations are a part of this and owned by broadcast networks called 'owned&operated' stations






33. Cannot prevent speech over radio






34. Hearings conducted regarding FCC violations






35. 80 percent of viewing is on 20 percent of channels/stations - most profit occurs from most popular stations






36. 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






37. Government sets predetermined fee and requires licenses to be granted - cable tv systems for redistribution of works aired on roadcast stations






38. The estimated numver of household actually tuned in to channel






39. Negotiates the terms of partnership through a contract






40. Inconsistent - changing mind a lot






41. 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






42. Compares relative cost among competing media - abbreviation for 'cost for thousand' - cost for an advertiser to reach 1 -000 people or households - cost of ad/number of households/people






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






44. Ad time is perishable - limited to what the viewer will tolerate






45. Publishing war plans






46. Intentional or inadvertent mistake - recording/calculating errors - biased questions - manipulation of results






47. Counties around central cities where tv is most viewed






48. Do audience measurement for radio






49. Program produced specifically for syndication (dr. phill - ellen - jeopardy)






50. Larger the sample - greater the reliability