1. What is commercial television?
Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of
television programs by privately owned
corporate media.

2. Effects of relying on advertising
revenue?
• Commercial broadcasting is primarily based on the practice of
airing television advertisement for profit. This is in to public
broadcasting which receives government subsides and
eschews most paid advertisement. The negative of relying on
adverts are that you always have to attract viewers because if
your channel doesn’t have enough viewers the advertisement
team wont give you there adverts which means your not
making enough money to stay in the business and that means
you close down you company because of relying on
advertisment.

3. What are some national commercial
television station?
• Here are some national commercial television
stations.
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ABC Television
ABC News 24
national indigenous television
Viva

4. What are some local commercial
television station?
• Here are some local commercial television
stations.
• Channel 4
• Bbc 1
• 4 music
• Channel 5

5. What sort of advert do they have on
commercial television?
• A commercial advertisement on television usually advertises
wide variety of goods such as good TV shows that are coming
up, adverts take big part of commercial television because
that’s how they get most of their money so they need to have
lots of viewers so they can get adverts money from other
companies and every adverts has a audience they need to
please for example advert about Mercedes are not for
teenagers because you know most teens can not effort it, so
each advert is for group of people and the come on certain
time that those people are more likely to be home.

6. What companies own commercial
television stations?
• here are some companies that own commercial
television stations.
• Channel 4 is own by channel four television
corporation they also own other television shows.
• 4Music
• Box Television
• Film4
• E4