The Missing and Witnesses, quotes that can relate to this:

“Media formats that are successful are replicated to deliver mass audiences”

“The media industry is driven by the twin forces of creativity and business”

“Vertical integration enables conglomerates to control the production and distribution of media products”

“Horizontal integration occurs when a conglomerate acquires media companies of the same media type”

“The web landscape of today is increasingly commercialised, with large-scale traditional media companies having invested huge amounts of time and money to develop equally huge web presences”

Commercial Media:

The production company for Witnesses was Cinétévé

PSB (Public Service Broadcaster):

The Missing is an international co-production between BBC and Starz

Horizontal Integration:

The BBC and Starz worked together to create and show The Missing. The Missing and Witnesses are similar in the sense that they have similar genre conventions, both involve a detective and is based on a crime drama

Vertical Integration:

The BBC enabled The Missing to be broadcast as it was made by the BBC, this means they had ownership over the show so were able to broadcast it themselves

Media Concentration – Used to describe the reduction in the number of media organisations that produce products

Media Pluralism – Media landscape with a healthy balance of products made by different media company types. These company types typically include psb, commercial media and citizen-generated media