Test questions

Read the text on mass media in the English-speaking countries and answer the following questions.

1. What is the major broadcaster in the United Kingdom, and what media services does it provide?
2. What are the most popular television channels in the UK?
3. What are the most popular radio stations in the UK?
4. Name some of the major British radio groups.
5. What are the Independent Television Commission and the Radio Authority responsible for?
6. What are the two major types of traditional newspapers in the UK, and what kinds of stories do they typically cover?
7. What are freesheets?
8. What are the most popular British magazines?
9. Which organizations are responsible for most of British book publishing?
10. Why are most newspapers local in the United States?
11. What are the most important national newspapers in the US?
12. What are the most popular magazines in the US?
13. What are the major radio chains in the US?
14. What is party–press parallelism?
15. How important is television in the US as a news source?
16. What are the most important national broadcast networks in the US?
17. What are the most important cable television channels in the US?
18. What are the Emmy Awards?
19. What are over-the-top (OTT) services?
20. What are the most important OTT services in the US?
21. What are the “Big Five” book publishers in the US?
22. What is the major role of university presses?
23. What are the most important newspapers published in Australia?
24. What are the most popular television channels in Australia?
25. What is the major broadcaster in Canada?
26. How and why does the Canadian government support the media sector?
27. How has the media landscape changed with the advent of the Internet?
28. What are some of the problems with online information and news?
29. How has the distribution of advertisements across different media changed in the past few decades?