What’s the difference between culture industries and other industries?

• Culture industries supply people with the information they need to know to go on with life, like the news and weather. The weather tells them how to dress, what transport to take, and the news tells them if its safe to go outside, or if the world is at war, or if a road is closed.
• However culture industries are also similar to other industries in the way that they need staff, a team, roles and a plan to work by, as well as this they are both designed in the manor to make the staff money instead of being entertainment or helpful to anyone, at the end of the day its just a job. –
• The main difference is that people need the culture industries to be in the loop with life and know what’s going on, however they don’t need to buy dinner at a restaurant or drive on a new tarmac road.
• Culture industries can use wider and more creative ideas and productions whereas industries are normally known for what they do and if they change its seen as strange.
• Culture industries play a pivotal role of making sense of the world.

-Public service guarantees a good, reliable program with no ad interruption breaks

-However public service requires a payment of £100 a year, which some people might see us unfair or ridiculous.

-Capitalist media can have freedom of speech and make anything they like which can supply a small amount of viewers with entertainment, however not every one

-Public service media is determined and influenced by the government and what they want the public to hear.

Public service Broadcastings:

-What is it?

A public television channel that is funded by TV license fee’s from the government. The PSB is trusted and meant to create quality broadcastings and quality content, it is watched by the government and has to live up to the expectations, the expectations being “inform, educate and entertain” – Lord Reith (the first general director of PSB’s). They do not use ads to make money, providing a better experience to viewers.

-Whats good about the PBS?

No adverts, its diverse and has multiple options, its free to everyone, has music. news and entertainment, although it influenced by the government, they are not afraid to sometimes speak out about the government.

-Whats bad about the PBS?

Paid for, not diverse enough, has bias most of the time in it as it is as its influenced by the government.

-How is it organised? Control and Regulation

it is influenced by the government and paid for by the public using tax’s like a TV license. Channel 4 makes money through ads but is a PBS, it is diverse and is meant to entertain and make media that is directed towards a small group of people rather than a large group of people like the BBC are targeted towards,

Curran and Seaton:

Speak mostly on how media and PBS is too influenced by the government, however since it was first developed it was worse and it has come a long way since then, they speak on how it needs to become more separate rather than slightly influenced.