This document provides an overview of different sectors within the media industries, including television, film, radio, and games. It notes that the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 are the main television companies in the UK. The film industry has six parts and is dominated by major companies like Paramount and Disney. The gaming industry also has five key areas - development, publishing, manufacturing, distribution, and retail - and examples are provided of first and third party developers as well as popular retailers.

1. Media Industries and structure.

2. TV
Television is one of the biggest sectors with in the media industry.
The BBC- public company
ITV – private company with 60% owned by ITV PLC
Channel 4 – private company , funded by ads
Channel 5 – private company owned by northern & shell ( owned by Richard
Desmond)
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3. FILM
There are six different parts of the film industry :
Development, production, facilities, distribution, exhibition and export
The film industry is dominated by many major companies:
Paramount, 21st century fox, Disney and many more.

4. What is the difference between blue and green
screen

5. RADIO

6. GAMES
• Gamming company's such as ubersoft, rockstar, EA games have started to ask the public to play early release version of the game and give feed back
• There are 5 key areas of the gamming industry:
• Development, publishing, manufacturing, distribution, retail
• Development: ‘First party’ developers are those internal to a publishing organization. For example, Nintendo has its own internal development teams.
• publishing: Publishers are the rights-holders for the games. Once the game is delivered by a developer (internal or external), the publisher is responsible for
marketing the product’s launch and the manufacturing process if there is a physical product.
• Manufacturing: Games are developed as a creative outlet
• distribution: In the video game industry, digital distribution is the process of delivering video game content as digital information, without the exchange or purchase
of new physical media.
• Retail: shipping the game off to different out let stores around the world company's such as:
Game, game seek, ginger games,