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Complete the Sentence by Choosing the Correct Option. Television is an ____________ Medium. - History and Political Science

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Question

Complete the sentence by choosing the correct option.
Television is an ____________ medium. 

Options

  • visual 

  • audio 

  • audio-visual 

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Solution

Television is an audio-visual medium.

Explanation:

Any media which uses both sound and a visual component are called audio-visual medium. Television is used as a powerful media to show the events as it actually happened. While radio can only broadcast and newspaper can only publish news, television can telecast the news live.

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Chapter 1.5: Mass Media and History - Exercise [Page 37]

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