culture industries and other industries definition:

companies that make culture such as films, posters, radio and everything that is creative industries. Other industries are companies that make stuff, such as pencils etc.

Culture, communications and political economy

Peter Golding and Graham Murdock

Public service broadcasting

One way to think about national television, which seems to connect all 3 (pairs of) case studies for this CSP is the notion of Public Service Broadcasting.

What is it?

Public service broadcasting consists of television and radio programmes supplied by an official or government organization for everyone, rather than by a commercial company. Not for a profit.

Are the BBC and C4 unique examples of PSB?

The public service broadcasters are those providing Channel 3 services, Channel 4, Channel 5, S4C and the BBC.

What’s good about it?

Public Service Broadcasting also creates a distinct civic value through empowering the public to participate in democratic processes, by informing individuals about the world around them, raising awareness of issues that affect their lives and communities, and fostering audiences’ sense of their own place in public.

Inform, create and entertain.

Public service broadcasting consists of television and radio programmes supplied by an official or government organization, rather than by a commercial company. Such programmes often provide information or education, as well as entertainment.

The BBC and Channel 4 are non-profit media organisations that are editorially independent from governments and private companies and have a public service remit and rely on the government for funding

it is an organisation for every one

the ethos of the bbec is to inform entertain and educate

Media Audiences

Information from the board about audience for you to reflect upon:

1. Look at the advertising campaigns (trailers, websites at home and abroad) for your chosen CSP TV series and think about how media producers target, attract and potentially construct audiences across local, national and global scales.
2. This means that different audiences interpretations reflect social, cultural and historical circumstances – which provide an insight into audience similarities and differences across local, national and global audiences.
3. The production, distribution and exhibition of many television shows how audiences can be reached, both on a national and global scale, through different media technologies and platforms, moving from the national to transnational through broadcast and digital technologies.

Key Thinkers

1. David Hesmondhalgh

2. Curran and Seaton.

3. Livingstone & Lunt

public service broadcasting

public service broadcasting is a multi-media platform that is open to the public and that the forms of media are different such as raidio and television its purpose is for world wide publishing for the the public and not commercial which is limited to the select view its a media that cultures to its audience eg the public

The public service ethos of the BBC to inform, entertain and educate is something that we should fiercely protect and fund properly

Curran and Seaton talks about the UK media is under control of a handful of global media conglomerates. they also talk about the short lifespan of media due to the money that is needed and is driven by the twin forces creativity and business and the thin line that seperates the two

What is it?

It includes radio, television and many other media outlets which primary mission is public service.

The purpose of it is to entertain the public, culture, education and information. It ensures diversity in the media and programming reflecting on wider societies. Genuinely paid through tax by the public.