MCJ 1 Radio
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- audion tube
- made voice transmission possible
- Gordon McLendon
- Program innovator; devised Top 40, all news, and beautiful music formats
- Joan Kroc
- Benefactor who fueled NPR expansion with her McDonald's fortune
- IBOC (in band on channel)
- Radio industry standard for digital transmission; allows multiple programming on the same channel
- Edward R. Murrow
- eyewitness World War II accounts from London
- Edwin Armstrong
- invented FM as an alternative transmission method
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Produced the first wireless transmission
- Reginald Fessenden
- First radio program, 1906
- Columbia Dupont awards
- recognitions of excellence in broadcast news
- Lee De Forest
- inventor whose projects included the audion tube
- John Brinkley
- quack doctor who lost an appeal claiming that broadcast reulation was an infringement on free expression
- Federal Radio Commission (FRC)
- agency to regulate US radio; created in 1927 predecessor to the FCC
- Trusteeship concept
- Government serves as a trustee for the public's intrestin regulating broadcasting; as do the station owners
- Voice Tracking
- A few announcers who pre-record music intros and outros for multiple stations to create a single personality for stations
- Marketplace concept
- allowing people through marketplace mechanism to determine the fate of a business; a successor in broadcasting to the trusteeship concept
- David Sarnoff
- His monitoring of the sinking of the Titanic familiarized people with radio; later NBC president