1. Television Broadcasting
Television broadcasting started in the United Kingdom in 1936 as public service
free of advertising. 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. There are many channels such as channel
5 the owners of this are northern & shell it plays in 4 advertising region. 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, this company also owns
other TV corporations such as more 4, film 4, 4seven, e4, 4music and channel 4+1.
2. 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 for 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.
Local Television Broadcasting
Some local television broadcasting channels are:
BBC London
BBC Scotland
BBC North Eastc
3. Public Service
Broadcasting
(The BBC)
The BBC is a public service in the UK. This is a company which has a purpose of
purely entertaining people rather than its commercials and advertising. The BBC’s
headquarters in London. This organization is the oldest in the UK and is the largest
broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.
The BBC is publicly owned. The way the BBC make their money is via TV license.
This is a fee that everyone in the UK pays if they have any type of digital
technology that you can watch TV broadcasting on.
4. How Large is BBC Radio
BBC Radio goes out to millions of people across the united kingdom. BBC radio is one
of the most listened, to radio companies in the UK. These statistics show exactly
how successful the development of the BBC on their radio platform:
8. International
presence
In recent years International has had an
increase because of the fact that televisions
within households is more common. Now
there are many international channels.
9. BBC is purely for entertainment and not
for commercial advertisements as it
earns it’s money from TV license. BBC
produce their own shows and broadcast
them on different channels that they
own.
BBC License Fee
BBC is completely unique from any
other radio or television broadcaster in
the UK. The BBC earn their money from
a fee that everyone with a digital device
at home has to pay. The fee is around
the sum of £145.50 a year.
There are many advantages of earning your
money from TV license. Such as, that it is a
fixed amount yearly and they will not loose
money. There only way possible of loosing
money is if a large amount of people in the
UK got rid of their TV and never watched TV
again. This means that the BBC will never go
struggle with their money because they can
easily budget due to the fixed amount of
money coming in.
10. What is Commercial TV
Commercial TV is TV channels and television broadcasting that is run by
advertisements and commercials. Majority of the channels across the
world earn their money from advertisements and this all relies on the
amount of viewers that the channel gain and loose. The more viewers a
channel has the bigger companies will want to advertise on your channel
which equals to more money.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Channel 4 Television
Company Limited and IBA
Channel Four TV corporation is a large media company that is publicly 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.
