Broadcasting
Television and radio programs are distributed through radio broadcasting over frequency bands that are
highly regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Such regulation includes determination of
the width of the bands, range, licencing, types of receivers and transmitters used, and acceptable
content. Cable programs are often broadcast simultaneously with radio and television programs, but
have a more limited audience. By coding signals and having decoding equipment in homes, cable also
enables subscription-based channels and pay-per-view services. Broadcasting is the distribution of audio
and/or video signals (programs) to a number of recipients ("listeners" or "viewers") that belong to a
large group. This group may be the public in general, or a relatively large audience within the public.
Film Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in
general. The origin of the name comes from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has
historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms
exist — motion pictures (or just pictures or "picture"), the silver screen, photoplays, the cinema, picture
shows, flicks — and commonly movies. Internet Toward the end of the 20th century, the advent of the
World Wide Web marked the first era in which any individual could have a means of exposure on a scale
comparable to that of mass media. For the first time, anyone with a web site can address a global
audience, although serving to high levels of web traffic is still relatively expensive. The Internet (also
known simply as "the Net" or "the Web") can be briefly understood as "a network of networks".
Specifically, it is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that
transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It consists of millions of
smaller domestic, academic, business, and governmental networks,