| affiliate | a broadcasting station that aligns itself with a network
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| AM/FM combo | two stations, one AM and one FM, simultaneously broadcasting identical content
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| audion tube | vacuum tube developed by DeForest that became the basic invention for all radio and television
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| average quarter-hour | how many people are listening to a broadcast station in each 15-minute day part
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| billings | total sale of broadcast airtime
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| Biltmore agreement | settled the press war between newspapers, which had refused their services to their electronic competitors, and radio
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| Bitcasters | "radio stations" that can be accessed only over the World Wide Web
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| catalogue albums | in record retailing, albums more than 3 years old
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| copyright | identifying and granting ownership of a given piece of expression to protect the creators' financial interest in it
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| cover | rerecording of one artist's music by another
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| cume | the cumulative audience, the number of people who listen to a radio station for at least 5 minutes in any one day
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| deregulation | relaxation of ownership and other rules for radio and television
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| digital audio radio service (DARS) | direct home or automobile delivery of audio by satellite
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| digital recording | recording based on conversion of sound into 1s and 0s logged in millisecond intervals in a computerized translation process
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| DMX (Digital Music Express) | home delivery of audio by cable
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| duopoly | single ownership and management of multiple radio stations in one market
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| format | a radio station's particular sound or programming content
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| in-band-on-channel (IBOC) | digital radio technology that uses digital compression to "shrink" digital and analog signals, allowing both to occupy the same frequency
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| liquid barretter | first audio device permitting the reception of wireless voices; developed by Fessenden
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| modem | a device that translates digital computer information into an analog form so it can be transmitted through telephone lines
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| MP3 | file compression software that permits streaming of digital audio and video data
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| nonduplication rule | mid-1960s FCC ruling that AM and FM license holders in the same market must broadcast different content at least 50% of the time
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| O&O | a broadcasting station that is owned and operated by a network
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| open source software | freely downloaded software
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| P2P | person-to-person software that permits direct Internet-based communication or collaboration between two or more personal computers while bypassing centralized servers
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| piracy | the illegal recording and sale of copyrighted material
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| playlist | predetermined sequence of selected records to be played by a disc jockey
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| rating | percentage of a market's total population that is reached by a piece of broadcast programming
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| recent catalogue albums | in record retailing, albums out for 15 months to 3 years
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| secondary service | a radio station's second, or nonprimary, format
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| share | the percentage of people listening to radio or of homes using television tuned in to a given piece of programming
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| spectrum scarcity | broadcast spectrum space is limited, so not everyone who wants to broadcast can; those who are granted licenses must accept regulation
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| streaming | the simultaneous downloading and accessing (playing) of digital audio or video data
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| syndication | sale of radio or television content to stations on a market-by-market basis
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| trustee model | in broadcast regulation, the idea that broadcasters serve as the public's trustees or fiduciaries
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| Web radio | the delivery of "radio" over the Internet directly to individual listeners
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