This document summarizes information about several British television channels - BBC Three, E4, and ITV. BBC Three targets 16-34 year olds and focuses on innovative content and new talent. Its remit is to bring young audiences to public service broadcasting through a mixed genre schedule of UK content. E4 targets 15-35 year olds and aims to be an entertainment destination for a young audience. Its eccentric branding makes it popular. E4 demonstrates innovation and appeals to a diverse society. ITV is the largest commercial television network in the UK, operating multiple channels and delivering content across platforms.

1. Media Channel Research
By Lydia Tweed

2. • BBC Three is a television channel from the BBC
broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and
satellite platforms. The channel's target audience
includes those in the 16–34 year old age group, and has
the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger
audiences, focusing on new talent and new
technologies. The channel is on-air from 19:00 to around
05:00 each night. E4 covers all genres, from current
affairs, to drama, to comedy to animation. The current
controller of the station is Zai Bennett and the Head of
Scheduling is Dan McGolpin.

3. BBC - Remit
• The remit of BBC Three is to bring
younger audiences to high-quality public
service broadcasting through a mixedgenre schedule of innovative UK content
featuring new UK talent. The channel
should use the full range of digital
platforms to deliver its content and to build
an interactive relationship with its
audience.

4. BBC Three Horrors
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Horrors already on BBC Three:
In the Flesh
Being Human
The Fades
The Village

5. • E4 is a British digital television channel, launched
as a pay-TV companion to Channel 4 on 18
January 2001. The "E" stands for
entertainment, and the channel is mainly aimed at
the lucrative 15–35 age group.
• E4 is the entertainment destination for a cutting
edge young audience
• Its eccentric and witty persona and strong
branding make it a massive talking point
• E4 is on Freeview, DSAT and cable, and E4 HD
on Sky increasing its audience potential big time

6. E4 Remit
• demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form
and content of programmes;
• appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society;
• The Digital Economy Act 2010 requires Channel 4 to participate
in:
• the making of a broad range of relevant media content of high
quality that, taken as a whole, appeals to the tastes and interests
of a culturally diverse society;
• the making of high quality films intended to be shown to the
general public at the cinema in the United Kingdom;
• the broadcasting and distribution of such content and films;
• the making of relevant media content that consists of news and
current affairs;
• the making of relevant media content that appeals to the tastes
and interests of older children and young adults.

7. • ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster.
It is the largest commercial television
network in the UK operating a family of
channels including the rebranded ITV. It
also delivers content across multiple
platforms either directly or via itv.com and
ITV Player. ITV Studios is an international
production and distribution business which
produces and sells programmes and
formats in the UK and worldwide.

8. ITV Remit

9. Skins – E4
• Skins is a British teen drama that follows the lives of a group of
teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of
sixth form. Its controversial storylines have explored issues such as
dysfunctional families, mental illness (such as eating
disorders), adolescent sexuality, substance abuse, death and
bullying. The show was created by father-and-son television writers
Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain for Company Pictures, and
premiered on E4 on 25 January 2007. The show went on to be a
critical success as well as a ratings winner within its target
demographic. Over its initial six-year run, Skins proved to be atypical
of on-going drama series in that it replaced its primary cast every
two years. Plans for a film spin-off were first discussed in 2009, but
ultimately did not come to fruition. Instead, a speciallycommissioned seventh and final series of the show was broadcast in
2013, featuring some of the cast from its 2007–10 run. The show's
name comes from the rolling papers known as "skins".