During the 1980s, Television Changed as

question 75

Multiple Choice

During the 1980s, television changed as

• A)the percentage of viewers watching network programming hit its peak.
• B)hundreds of new independent stations first went on the air.
• C)most independent stations were bought by various giant media corporations.
• D)networks poured more money into their news divisions.
• E)reality programming began to dominate the ratings.

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Definitions:

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group falls, often used to compare scores across a population.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, representing the most common or popular observation.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values in the set differ from the mean.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two variables fluctuate together.