Elements that make Press a quality or not quality tv programme:

Acting – Good

Lighting, camera angles, editing, sound – Good

Storyline – Intriguing, quite suspenseful.

Outfits, hair, makeup – Professional, suitable for the roles they were playing.

Settings – In a professional, suitable office space. Opera house etc. Could be more exciting

Music/sound effects – Opening song, quite intriguing for the programme.

Professional marketing –

Broadcasting targets mass media, a big audience

Narrowcasting targets a niche audience

The BBC was made in 1922.

Radio was the first media broadcasting form, then television.

The first director general was Lord John Wreath.

They established an ethos with three main principles, ‘Entertain, Inform and Educate’.

To oversee due diligence and regulation the Government has a charter, BBC charter. A set of rules to make sure the BBC is doing what they are meant to be.

The BBC took up a paternalist approach, not a populist approach. Differences, good, bad.

Popular is giving more of what people enjoy, however it could be a detriment to them through exploitation (entertainment).

Paternalist is advising what is best (education/inform) even if it is not as pleasurable.

Grace Wyndham-Goldie noting the msot significant thingh about broadcasting that it changes time and space.

What life would have been livefd 100 years ago is like the here and now.

New communication media technologies allow you to change time and space il.e. the telephoine, recording abnd being able to listen back layrter

Fear people have of new technologies will ruin everything – people will stop talking to each other, wont work

The BBC became like ‘social cement’. British culture was centred around the BBC.

Habermas – In 1929 the BBC had a round up aimed at women. Public sphere.

BBC allows communications and connections within the media between different people.

‘Cable television was left to produce programmes that were suffiently attractive for the public to buy’

Double Think George Orwell. Government and ministers

Curran and Seaton – Ownership effects

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