The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a UK-based international public-service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London.
What are commercial TV channels?
Commercial TV channels are a channel that promote certain stuff and to make profit.
How are they funded?
What is meant by media conglomerate?
A media conglomerate, media group or media insitution is a comany that owns large numbers of companies in a various mass media such as television,radio,publishing,movies and the internet. Media conglomerates strive for policies that facilitate their control of the markets across the globe
Channel 5s most viewed programme.
Channel 5 recently bought the rights for the programme Big Brother. This has been a huge success for the channel.
ITVs highest ratings.
Independent film is often thought of as an antidote to the mainstream Hollywood blockbuster. In the beginning, independent film was everything that the major films studio films were not. While Hollywood sold films that were safe, escapist and mega-expensive, independents were the opposite.
What are the new technological developments in the way we watch/make TV?
It is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with around 23,000 staff in total, and 16,672 in public sector broadcasting.
When did the BBC start?
The BBC was founded on 18th October 1922. The founder was John Reith. The are of service is global.
Britain's first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mail's Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba. The Melba broadcast caught the people's imagination and marked a turning point in the British public's attitude to radio However this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By the Autumn of 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licencing authority, the General Post Office (GPO), was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts.
But by 1922 the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests and moved to rescind its ban in the wake of a petition by 63 wireless societies with over 3000 members. Anxious to avoid the same chaotic expansion experienced in the United States the GPO proposed that it would issue a single broadcasting licence to a company jointly owned by a consortium of leading wireless receiver manufactures, to be known as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the Company made its first official broadcast. The Company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers and by a licence fee.
How is it funded?
The BBC is funded by UK citizens. We pay a license fee what pays for the BBC. The cost of the license fee is £145.50 and a black and white TV license is £49.
Pros and Cons
Pros of the licence
The greatest advantage of the TV licence is it creates a pull of funds for financing the operations of the BBC. Many official reports indicate that the fee makes the corporation considerably productive. According to Davies Committee 2000 and Ofcom Report 2001, a vast majority of owners of digital television equipment and payers of the fee hold that using the licensing model enables the corporation to deliver quality and enhances access to information.
Though people have different opinions on the subject, it is true that the BBC delivers better quality content than its commercial competitors because they do not they do not aim at profit making. Moreover, the licence enables minorities as well to get quality information since the licence is simply required when watching or recording live TV while it is being broadcasted. This means any person can watch a quality programme that was previously recorded for free.
Cons of the licence
The main con of the license is that it is uneconomical. The annual rates are high and should be reduced to cater for the poor more significantly.
Lastly, the TV licence criminalises poor people. A majority of poor people often find themselves in court corridors defending themselves for evading paying the fee. Whenever they are prosecuted successfully, they pay hefty fines. The law allows a fine of up to £1,000 making the licence a legal challenge.
What are commercial TV channels?
Commercial TV channels are a channel that promote certain stuff and to make profit.
How are they funded?
Commercial broadcasting overlaps with paid services such as cable television, radio and satellite television. Such services are generally partially or wholly paid for by local subscribers and is known as leased access. Other programming (particularly on cable television) is produced by companies operating in much the same manner as advertising-funded commercial broadcasters, and they (and often the local cable provider) sell commercial time in a similar manner.
The FCC's interest in program control began with the chain-broadcasting investigation of the late 1930s, culminating in the "Blue Book" of 1946, Public Service Responsibility For Broadcast Licensees. The Blue Book differentiated between mass-appeal sponsored programs and unsponsored "sustaining" programs offered by the radio networks. This sustained programming, according to the Blue Book, had five features serving the public interest:
- Sustaining programs balanced the broadcast schedule, supplementing the soap operas and popular-music programs receiving the highest ratings and most commercial sponsors
- They allowed for the broadcast of programs which, by their controversial or sensitive nature, were unsuitable for sponsorship
- They supplied cultural programming for smaller audiences
- They provided limited broadcast access for non-profit and civic organizations
- They made possible artistic and dramatic experimentation, shielded from the pressures of short-run rating and commercial considerations of a sponsor.
What is meant by media conglomerate?
A media conglomerate, media group or media insitution is a comany that owns large numbers of companies in a various mass media such as television,radio,publishing,movies and the internet. Media conglomerates strive for policies that facilitate their control of the markets across the globe
Channel 5s most viewed programme.
Channel 5 recently bought the rights for the programme Big Brother. This has been a huge success for the channel.
Major Studios
BLUE SKY STUDIOS
Ice age
Ice age did very well at the box office. The studio went on to make more ice age films. The budge was very big for a film like ice age.
Rio had a massive budget. I think the studio was expecting a big profit back on the film.
What is a independent film?
An independent film can be made on a shoestring budget. Many of the great independent directors have financed their films using very unconventional methods. Robert Rodriguez sold his body to medical trials in order to finance his first film. One director faked a car accident in order to gain finance from the insurance money for his independent film. Credit cards, loans from family and friends and savings will all go towards a director’s passion for making his own film.
In the nineties, independent film went through a major change. Major studios would not usually bother to touch indies because there was no profit to be made from them, but a small film company called Miramax was instrumental in changing the studio’s mind. The owners of Miramax, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, saw that they could buy films from independent film directors and make huge profits.
Small budget films such as Sex, Lies and Videotape, Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting helped change people’s attitudes toward independent film. Compared to the studio pictures, indies were made for very little money, relatively quickly and with first time directors and screenwriters. Independent films began grossing hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide, and the studios began to pay attention.
Independent films what have won awards
The Pride.
There is always new ways on watching TV such as Netflix,amazon prime and watch now tv. These are easy to get you need internet connection and a device to watch it on such as Xbox, Phone and computer.
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