Curran and Seaton suggests that a second and equally turbulent wave of ownership consolidation took place in the latter half of the twentieth century when economic globalisation and the widespread deregulation of the media industry reduced the number of national press titles in the uk to just 11 publications.
Commercial broadcasters need to secure long term advertising revenue to survive programming.
Curran and Seaton argue that the Uk government policy is responsible in part, for the widespread domination of the media landscape by huge conglomerates.
The power of concentrated media ownership has forced political parties to form cosy relationships with media moguls in order to get favourable press coverage
commercial media has not been allowed to dominate the Uk television and radio markets completely. The BBC as a public service broad caster funded through the television licence fee operates without the need to attract advertising revenue to fund programming
