What is the difference between the culture industries and other industries?
- Cultural industries is usually for entertainment and making money and other industries (e.g Greggs) is mainly aimed on making money.
- Cultural industries refers to the various businesses that produce, distribute, market or sell products that belong categorically in creative arts. Products such as clothing, books, movies, television, music.
- In the cultural industries there is a lot of freedom for what you can create or produce, however in industries such as, Greggs, they don’t have much choice at what to produce or sell.
- The media culture plays a big part in organizing the way people make sense of the world and the way people understand what is going on in the world.
Public Service Broadcasting:
- What is it? Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Inform, educate, entertain
Channel 4 Corporation was set up by an Act of Parliament. It is a publicly owned not-for-profit corporation and does not have any shareholder. So it is public and private owned (Mixed Model)
What’s good about BBC? Almost free, easy to access, wide variety of programs, not overly commercial.