B. Complete the following words and word combinations.
1. The advocates of the 1996 Telecommunications Act argued that there was no longer any need to e___________ d______________ of ownership in broadcast radio.
2. The first transatlantic cable was the f______________ of today’s global communication technologies.
3. Hertz’s experiments p_____________ i_______________ further marketing wireless communication systems for businesses.
4. Radio Corporation of America gave the US almost total control over the emerging mass medium, which had not been a_______________ by most wireless companies.
5. KDKA station could l___________ c__________ to making the first professional broadcast in 1920.
6. The government c_____________ brought l_____-o________ r___________ to the American radio industry in the mid-1940s.
7. One of the most popular radio broadcasts in America f___________ an adaptation of H.G. Wells’s “War of the Worlds”.
8. Historically, older forms of mass media a___________ to economic and social c_____________ p___________ by the arrival of a newer medium.
9. Edwin Armstrong, who first discovered and developed FM radio, is often considered the most p____________ inventor in radio history.
10. In the 1960s the Federal Communications Commission opened up more spectrum space for the FM sound, thus i____________ n_____ l_________ into radio.
11. When television s__________ radio’s program ideas, radio’s dependence on recorded music became a necessity.
12. Critics of format radio argued that lesser-known songs deserving air time r____________ m________ a____________ on it.
13. Radio managers introduced format radio to g____________ more r_____________ .
14. Payola, which was r___________ during the 1950s, was later replaced with a promotional strategy called p________________.
15. Although some see p______________ as a direct, honest way to introduce new music on radio stations, others object to having commercial interests b_____________ t___________ with playlists.
16. A news/talk format appeals to advertisers looking to t___________ working- and middle-class adult consumers.
17. Although commercial radio dominates the radio spectrum, nonprofit radio m____________ a v____________.
18. At some periods, the future of noncommercial radio l_________ b___________.
19. When government funding tightened, television r___________ the l__________ s_________.
20. Although low-power stations aren’t e___________ for funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one hundred longtime 10-watters are still in operation.
21. As podcasting became more popular, mainstream media c__________ the t_________, creating commercial podcasts.
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VI. Translation
A. Translate the following words and word-combinations from Russian into English using active vocabulary.
Обеспечивать разнообразие; предшественник; глубоко влиять на что-либо; предвидеть; претендовать на что-либо; давно назревшая реформа; кампания по борьбе с чем-либо; быть важной частью/основой чего-либо; бросить вызов; приспособиться к трудной ситуации; изобретательный; вдохнуть новую жизнь; отнять; не получать достаточного внимания; приносить доход; бесконтрольно распространяющийся; плата за проигрывание песни на радиостанции; вмешиваться во что-либо; беззастенчиво; быть нацеленным на что-либо; не сдавать позиции; выглядеть мрачно; получить львиную долю; иметь право на что-либо; подхватить тенденцию.
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