RTV 3001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Federal Communications Commission, David Sarnoff, Edwin Howard Armstrong

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The distribution of seeds: functions of electronic media, from one to many, entertainment, news and information, commerce, culture and customs, Radio: weaknesses of wired communication, construction: time-consuming and requires expensive equipment, maintenance: is underground/sea, so replacement is difficult, samuel morse, invented the telegraph and morse code. Ether : his alternator produced a continuous wave that was needed for transmission of voice or music, audion. Commission (fcc): added wired communication to the description, use of fireside chats by franklin d. roosevelt, fireside chats: every once in awhile the president fdr would go on the radio. He would make it seem cozy like he was by a fireside . If so, how: his health decreases and he became estranged from his wife when he hit her with a poker stick. From history channel"s modern marvel series --- television: window to the. Why didn"t the launch of tv happen under this timeline: 1930s.