Quiz for Chapter 7
1. Two different men are credited with being the father of broadcasting. Who are
they? ____________________________ and _______________________________
2. The first real news broadcast covered the results of the 1916 presidential
election. Who was the broadcaster and who won the presidency? The broadcaster
was ________________________; the winner was _________________________________.
3. The first federal legislation governing broadcasting was _____________________________
________.
4. All radio transmitters and operators had to have a license issued by the U.S.
Commerce and Labor Department according to the (law) _____________________________.
5. The federal official who worked to convince Congress to enact legislation to
oversee the rapidly growing broadcast industry was then Commerce and Labor
Secretary _____________________________.
6. Station ______________ in Pittsburgh is generally considered the first fully licensed
broadcast station.
7. Congress has passed three major laws to regulate broadcasting and
telecommunications. The first was the Radio Act of 1927, which created the
___________________________________________________ to regulate the burgeoning industry.
8. The law gave the five-member commission authority to revoke licenses but it
could not ______________________ content.
9. An important principle in broadcast regulation from the beginning was that
broadcasters must operate in _____________________________, that is, broadcast stations
must be operated as if owned by the public.
10. The second regulatory act was the ____________________________________________, which
consolidated federal oversight of all interstate and international communication, not
just radio, under one agency. The Federal Radio Commission was renamed the
______________________________________________________ ,which still oversees the broadcast
and telecommunications industry.
11. Regulation of broadcasting, in stark contrast to the government’s inability to
control the print media because of the First Amendment, is justified because the
transmission path, _________________________________, is limited.
12. In 1997, in Reno v. ACLU, the Supreme Court held the _____________________________
_________ was unconstitutional, banning more speech than necessary to protect
children from sexually explicit material on the Internet.