Public Service Broadcasting
Broadcasting intended for public benefit rather than to serve purely commercial interests. Funded by a licence fee and does not sell advertising time.
Educate, Inform, Entertain – BBC Ethos
BBC is easily accessible.
Capital – Not on BBC iPlayer but found on Amazon and needs to be paid for.
Curran and Seaton
Key Terms:
- Cultural industries –
- Production – the making of a motion picture, television show, video, commercial, Internet video, or other viewable programming provided to viewers.
- Distribution – methods, by any means, for the publication, transmission, dissemination, distribution and/or delivery of Marketing Media, to spread the product throughout the marketplace such that a large number of people can buy it.
- Exhibition / Consumption – content audience reads, views and/or listens to information and data related to your business and marketing.
- Media concentration –
- Conglomerates –
- Globalisation (in terms of media ownership) –
- Cultural imperialism –
- Vertical Integration –
- Horizontal Integration –
- Mergers –
- Monopolies –
- Gatekeepers –
- Regulation –
- Deregulation –
- Free market –
- Commodification –
- Convergence –
- Diversity –
- Innovation –