Re-cap of Press:

Acting	Was of good quality, believable
Lighting	Good quality
Camera angles	Good camera angles
Editing	Editing was mostly good but felt rushed towards end.
Storyline	Sometimes the plot line of each episode was weak and didn’t have much progression
Set	amazing set
sound	quality sound
props	appropriate – fine details
costume	appropriate costume – realistic
script	good dialogue

Broadcasting: To a big wide audience

Narrowcasting: To a niche audience.

The BBC

• Publicly owned (funded through TV licenses by the public and overseen by government)
• The BBC was founded in October 1922
• Originally it started off as a radio and then developed into television
• Lord John Reith was the first ‘director general’ of the BBC
• He set out a mission for the BBC. This had 3 main principals; to inform, to educate and to entertain.
• The BBC is regulated by the Royal charter
• initially rejected by many organisations out of fear of new technologies
• Their work is funded through a TV license fee from British households/companies/organisations.
• Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service  which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic and Persian
• Became increasingly more popular after second world war and played a prominent role in British life and culture.

Populism = Giving people what they want.

Paternalism = Giving the people, what some people think they need.

The BBC utilises a paternalist approach rather than a populist approach. This means they provide diverse content for their audiences. Cecil Lewis said that the BBC began opening “new worlds to people” as they are exposed to new/more content.

Habermas – Transformation of the Public Sphere within the BBC

• Using a paternalist approach to give their audiences more exposure to alternate content. For example in 1941 Una Marson was the first black BBC producer.
• More inclusive when it comes to representation.
• New technologies transformed time and space. For example in 1948 being able to watch the Olympics at home.
• 1955 first television show for deaf children – became more accessible to wider audiences.

Jean seaton

• “One cause of the collapse of the principle of public service broadcasting has been the deterioration in the relationship of the state and broadcasting institutions. “
• “essential that permission to transmit, and the matter to be transmitted should be subject to public authority.”
• “it was impossible for broadcasting to be politically accountable and yet remain independent of any political influence.”
• “developed the idea of broadcasting as a public service – catering to all section of the community, reaching all parts of the country regardless of the cost, seeking to educate, inform and improve, and prepared to lead public opinion rather then follow it.”

Ownership effects – James Curran and Jean Seaton

• their book power and responsibility explains how media has fallen under the control of a handful of global media conglomerates.
• radical pamphlets in Victorian era created by working class for working class were the engines for social and political change. Described “as an alternate value system that symbolically turned the world upside down”

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