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What makes quality television?

  • Understandable script/story
  • Good acting
  • Interesting plot
  • Good cinematography
  • Good editing
  • Good lighting
  • Interesting characters/character development
  • Educates the audience
  • Sense of escapism

Broadcasting – communicating with a variety of people

Narrowcasting – small / niche audience

THE BBC

  • Founded in 1992
  • Started with radio [tv came later]
  • Lord Reith was the first director of the BBC
  • His ethos [belief/mission statement] for the BBC had 3 main principles
    • Inform, educate and entertain
  • To oversee due diligence and regulation, the UK government reviews a charter: to ensure the BBC stay inline

The Royal Charter

The Royal Charter is the constitutional basis for the BBC. It sets out the BBC’s Object, Mission and Public Purposes. The Charter also outlines the Corporation’s governance and regulatory arrangements, including the role and composition of the BBC Board.

The current Charter began on 1 January 2017 and ends on 31 December 2027.

The Government will carry out a mid-term review of the Charter, focussing on governance and regulatory arrangements. This review is not a full Charter Review and so will not look at the BBC’s mission, purpose or the method by which it is funded.

Habermas – Transformation of the public sphere – the transformation of time and space, the central place that the BBC plays in our everyday lives

The control mechanism of mass media and sharing information was creating a restricted public sphere. 

Ethos

The public service ethos of the BBC is to inform, entertain and educate

Populism is a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.

Paternalism is the policy or practice on the part of people in authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to or otherwise dependent on them in their supposed interest.

https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/media23al/wp-content/uploads/sites/58/2022/11/Seaton-PSB-1.pdf

“But broadcasting organisations have to back their field, and put their money on the leading horses which line up at the starting game”

“The concept of broadcasting has always been of a service, comprehensive in character, with the duty of a public cooperation of bringing to public awareness the whole range of activity and expression developed in society “

“The only information about viewers that seriously affects producers is knowledge of the size of the audience”

“The pursuit of profit rather than excellence is more likely to dominate”

“The media industry is driven, Curran and Seaton tells us, by the twin forces of creativity and business”

“Those we call the media’s business managers are responsible for ensuring the profitability and commercial viability of products”

“Commercial broadcasting is based not on the sale of programmes to the audience, but on the sale of audiences to advertisers”

“The success of horizontal and vertical integration means that most commercial print, film and TV based in America and the UK is now controlled by just 6 global players: CBS, Comcast, Disney, News Corporation, Time Warner and Viacom”

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