TV Industry

Learning Aims:

• All of you will be able to explain the different types of ownership in the TV industry.

• Most of you will be able to describe the various types of ownership.

• Some of you will be able to find examples of companies and their ownership.

Ownership

• Ownership refers to who owns a company and the way that they operate because of this.

This week we are looking at the TV Industry.

The TV Industry is made up of these:

• Public Service Broadcasters

• Independent Broadcasters

• Internet TV

• Corporate TV

• Independent companies

• Global companies

What does the term “broadcaster” mean?

• To scatter over a wide area

• To transmit information to a large audience.

In what ways do we broadcast?

Public Service Broadcasters

• All the Terrestrial TV channels (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five) have some public service duties but the BBC is fully public service

• They have duties to the public in their licencing agreements.

• Paid for by your TV Licence.

Independent Broadcasters• Some of the major media companies hold a large part of

the industry. Such as: BSkyB, Virgin Media, Discovery, Disney and Viacom.

• There are also some Niche broadcasters.

• They have more freedom in their programming.

• Paid for through private funding. Such as an added TV package (Sky, BT, Virgin media etc) private investors, or Advertising.

• Often Privately owned meaning the company shares are not owned by the public.

Internet TV• Mainly privately funded,

through advertising or added subscription fee.

• Some large players (Youtube, Netflix etc)

• Either professional programming or user generated.

Studio Production Companies• Studios like ITV studios make

some of their productions “In house”

• Meaning they have a production team that make their productions and use them for their own channel or other channels.

• These productions are funded and created by ITV.

Independent Production Companies

• The industry is dominated by Independent TV companies.

• Broadcasters use Independent Companies to contract out jobs.

• Most of the biggest programmes (Xfactor etc) are made by Independent production companies not by the channel itself.

• The channel (e.g ITV) then broadcasts it.

Corporate TV• Corporate TV companies are usually

privately owned, independent companies.

• They are usually commissioned first hand by the client (e.g. BT) and are asked to produce films that contribute to their business in some way.

• Corporate TV/ film companies are often asked to create training videos, promotional videos, advertisements, information videos, documentaries.

Global Companies:

• Global TV companies broadcast or operate internationally.

• UK based film and TV companies may operate globally or be purely based in the UK.

In Pairs, find an example of each of the following:

UK film/TV companies only operating in the UK

Global film/ TV Companies

In your PowerPoint Podcastexplain in detail with examples

Ownership and Funding in the TV and Film Industries:

• public service • commercial companies• Types of broadcaster• private • corporate • independent companies• global companies

Learning Aims:

• All of you will be able to explain the different types of ownership in the TV industry.

• Most of you will be able to describe the various types of ownership.

• Some of you will be able to find examples of companies and their ownership.