The document defines and provides examples of the major media industry sectors, including: the film industry (e.g. 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, Disney), radio industry (e.g. rock, pop, and soft music stations), television industry (e.g. providers like Sky, BT, and Freeview), print industry (e.g. magazines, newspapers, labels), advertising/marketing industry, press/news media, and games design industry (e.g. for consoles and mobile devices). It describes some of the key aspects, companies, and products within each sector.

1. Define The Major Media
Industry Sectors
Megan Hughes
Task 1 Understand the structure and ownership of
the media sector

2. Film Industry
The film industry is the entertainment industries involved in
producing and distributing movies. They comprises the
technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking… For
example: film production companies, film
studios, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production,
post production, film festivals, distribution;
and actors, film directors and other film crew personnel.
Some examples of companies within the film industry are:
20th Fox Century, DreamWorks, Disney and Universal
Pictures.
20th Fox Century have produced films such as: Titanic, Ice
Age, X-men, Lets Be Cops.
DreamWorks have produced films such as: Shrek,
Madagascar, Bee Movie, Shark Tale.
Disney have produced films such as: The Lion King,
Cinderella, High School Musical, The Parent Trap.
Universal Pictures have produced films such as: Jaws, Fast
and Furious, The Strangers, Bruce Almighty.

3. Radio Industry
The radio industry is a generic term for any companies or public service
providers who are involved with the broadcast of radio stations or ancillary
services. Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio
waves intended to reach a wide audience to deliver them the following:
music, news updates on traffic and weather, facts on various things, to give
out any other information needed.
Most radio stations will have a genre/type of music they play... For example:
•Rock FM will tend to play rock music by rock bands such as The Beatles
and Queen.
•Capital and Key 103 usually play the UK top 40 charts or any other
R&B/dance songs by artists such as: Calvin Harris, Rihanna.
•Smooth Radio play very chilled out, slow, old songs where there is less of a
beat by artists such as: Whitney Houston and Fontella Bass.

4. Television Industry
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium that is used for transmitting
and receiving moving images and sound. Television can transmit images
that are monochrome (black-and-white), in colour, or in three dimensions to
allow people to watch all their daily television programmes at home on
whatever channel you need.
Television providers such as Sky, BT and Freeview work with companies to
allow your favourite programmes to appear on your TVs. The more
expensive providers such as Sky, tend to have the best layout of channels
categorised in genres for themes and ages, etc. When you have Sky TV and
you go on your television guide the programmes are sub-categorised into
sport, kids, movies, music, documentaries, this makes it easier to find a
particular programme to suit you.

5. Print Industry
The art, process, or business of producing printed material by means of
inked type and a printing press or by similar means. It uses text and images
as forms/templates.
The most modern printing is ink on paper using a press… Often it is a large
scale industrial process on paper and is an essential part of publishing and
transaction printing. However, besides this you can print on metals, plastics,
cloth and other materials.
There are different types and dimensions of print and it is used on labels for
food and drink, used for magazines, used for newspapers and more. Printing
has a big advantage in advertisement, it is a great way of getting your sales
out there to the public.

6. Advertising & Marketing
Industry
Advertising in business is a form of marketing communication used to
encourage, persuade, or manipulate an audience (viewers, readers or
listeners; sometimes a specific group) to take or continue to take some
action.
Methods of the advertising and marketing industry are: advertising, brand
management, direct marketing, marketing communications, market research
and public relations.

7. Press
The press are known as the mainstream media team of communication.
They gather content of celebs lives, famous occasions and more then
broadcast everything through newspapers, radio stations, magazines,
online, etc. The press used to be handled by the PCC until the phone
hacking scandal took place and they disbanded it due to them not doing their
jobs properly and following the rules they should.

8. Games Design Industry
The games industry is growing more and more each day due to the amount
of gadgets that are being released all over the world. There’s the Nintendo
DS, DSI and plus, there’s the Xbox and PS3/4 games, there’s apps on all
the IPhone/IPods/IPads and tablets.
For all of these games to be invented and released they have to go through
numerous amounts of processes so the game can be: designed (by fine
artists and perfectionists), then manufactured, then advertised and printed
for the public to see and eventually released when the game is to the highest
ability it can reach for the public to use easily.
On IPhones and other Apple gadgets you can download a series of different
games for free, there are games that you can pay for but there are also
games that cost no money and are still extremely popular and function well
for the public to use.
The games that are put on the app store for anyone to download are
protected and safe. If there are games inappropriate for younger children
there are restrictions that stop you from downloading the game because
some have an age 16/18 limit on them unless they have been parent
authorised.