1. Television Broadcasting
• In the year 1936, a technological device was brought out publically for entertainment purposes. This
was known as the television broadcasting and it was officially started in the United Kingdom.
• Television has developed over the past years especially on what you use it for because in the modern
day TV is not just used to broadcast different channels.
• Television is at a point now where people have a variety of choices and access to different thing. E.g.
gaming, music and on Televisions such as the smart television people have internet access to browse. In
recent years television is developing at a faster pace than it ever has before and majority of the people
around the world have a TV, as it has become a common resource to have in the house.
• Now there is a collection of free and subscription services over a
variety of distribution media, There are 27,000 hours of domestic
content produced a year at a cost of £2.6 billion.
• Television broadcasting has developed from only having five
channels to having approximately a thousand channels worldwide.
One of the biggest TV channels to be here for a very long time is
channel 5. Channel 5 is owned by a company known as northern &
shell, which plays in four advertising regions.
• Northern & shell also owns three entertainment television
channels: Channel 5, 5* and 5USA. The company also owns
Portland TV, which owns the adult TV channels; Television X, Red
Hot TV, and others. Another channel is Channel 4, the owners of
this channel are Channel Four Television Corporation, and this
company also owns other TV corporations such as more 4, film
4, 4seven, e4, 4music and channel 4+1.

2. Channel 4 Television
Company Limited and IBA
Channel Four TV corporation is a large media company that is publically owned. This company is
headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its original and principal activity is the British national
television network Channel 4. The company was founded in 1982 as Channel Four Television
Company Limited, a completely owned subsidiary of the IBA, and became an independent legal
corporation in 1993. They own Big companies such as channel 4. The IBA appointed and regulated a
number of regional programme TV contractors.
Channel 4 financially depend on advertisements to run there channels or too keep the company
going. This is how most television programs earn there money. They use this money for production
and to buy shows to display on their channel but channel 4 are mainly making their own productions
although they do buy a few shows from American companies.

3. Effects of relying on advertising
revenue
An effect for relying on advertising revenue for TV broadcasting is that
the company that owns the channel need to rely on the number of
viewers they have. This is because companies such as ITV, channel 4 and
channel 5 earn all their finances from all the advertisements. They rely
on the revenue to fund for their channel. The better the show that they
can produce they will attract larger companies hence they can afford
better shows and gain more viewers.
Smaller companies cannot advertise on national channels such as ITV
because the price range to advertise on a channel such as ITV is very
high. On the other hand it is very much possible that small companies
can have a chance to advertise on ITV because it may be less costly
when children are at school and when adults are working.

4. National Television broadcasting
There are many national television broadcasting channels across the UK and
some example of this are:
-BBC: Although the BBC provide channels the US they mainly stream
nationally across England Scotland and Wales.
-ITV: this is a national television channel with both shows produced and hired
from other companies.
Some local television broadcasting channels are:
BBC London
BBC Scotland
BBC North Eastc
Local Television Broadcasting

5. Do these owners companies have a presence on other media
platforms
BBC: BBC are on other media platforms such as radio e.g. BBC
radio 1,2,3,4,5 and 5live.
ITV: they are on different platforms such as the web. They have
ITV player and their own website with information for people to
see.