public broadcast company, Private broadcast company and ofcom

Level 2 media Scott

What is a public broadcast company?  A public broadcast company is a service that is funded by the government. The primary goal of a public broadcasting service is to speak to and engage as a citizen. An example is the BBC.

What is a Private broadcast company?  Private or commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs or radio by privately owned corporate media. Private broadcasting company base their practice on airing radio and television advertisement for a profit. An example is ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.

Who are ofcom and what do they do?  Ofcom or office of communications is a government approved regulatory and competition authority of the broadcasting. They were founded on the 29^th of December 2003 and the chairman is Dame Patricia Hodgson. They offer a wide ranging power across the television, radio, telecoms also postal sectors.    

Media industries 2

TV and Radio

The BBC which was founded ninety-two years ago have multiple television channels like CBBC which target school children due to programmes they show like 4 o'clock club. Both  BBC 1 and 2 is aimed at families due to there programming's. A way of showing this is through their counterprogramming. An example of counterprogramming is The one show, EastEnders and Holby City.

• The BBC is run by the Executive Board. They are responsible for delivering the BBC’s services in accordance with the strategy agreed with the BBC Trust.

• They also have radio station like BBC radio 1 which is aimed at 15–29 age group. The main thing that is broadcast is modern specialist music.

Revision for exam

Scott revision

Analogue: Any media that uses old recording, transmitting and broadcast technology.

Digital: Any media that are encoded in a machine readable format. It can be created, viewed, distributed, modified and preserved on computer.          

Broadcast: Broadcast is the distribution of audio and/or video content to a wide audience; this take place using both wires and radio waves.

Platform: Where the media product is used (not a device)  

Device: What you consume the media product on.  

Devices: Compute, iPod, Games Console, Kindle, iPhone, Tablet     

Platforms: Cinema, digital download, radio broadcast, DVD, CD, online content, webpages, streaming. 

Sectors : Moving Image, Audio, Publishing, Digital Games, Websites.         

Products: film/video (films, trailers, documentaries, animations, corporate or training videos

 Drama, adverts, light entertainment shows, music videos, news programmes, factual programmes

Adverts, drama, news and current affairs, light entertainment, podcasts, movie soundtrack e-magazines, e-newspapers, posters, flyers, adverts

Games

Synergy: Cross-media links for one brand or franchise.       

Convergence: Using different devices (mobile phones, tablets, games consoles, laptops, PCs, MP3/MP4 players) to consume the same product.        

Stereotypes: The way or representing groups and individuals in a way that identifies them as belonging to a certain group or type.

Interactivity: Interactivity (between producer/product and consumer)

BBFC: Regulatory body for British Films and British Board of Film Classification.

Production: planning, researching and preparing the product         

Pre-production: planning, researching and preparing the product  

Production: shooting or constructing the elements of the product  

ASA: Advertising Standards Authority Regulatory body for Advertisement.

PEGI: Pan European Game Information Regulatory body for Games

OFCOM: Regulatory body for television and radio