Retake Revison Notes

Public Service Broadcasting:

  • Educate & inform audiences
  • BBC is an example
  • Remit means the responsibility of a programme
  • BBC remit: 'To enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain'.
Commercial Terrestrial TV:
  • Aim to provide popular shows that attract audiences - Leads to higher prices when ads are sold
  • Funded through advertising 
Vertical & Horizontal Integration:
  • Disney is both - Own Marvel 
  • Indapendant: Vertical - When marketing will sometimes become a joint venture
  • Synergy - when company has complete control over both horizontal and vertical intergration
  • Joint venture results in lack of control 
Regulatory bodies: 
  • BBFC
  • IPSO
  • ASA
  • Ofcom
  • PEGI (overseen by VSC)
  • W3C
Advertising:
  • Traditional and digital methods
  • Above and below-the-line advertising
  • Simulcasting - when a media product is broadcasted across several mediums (e.g. cinema and TV)
Theories: 
  • Blumler & Katz - Uses & Gratifications












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