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How is TV and video owned and regulated in the UK?

Public (BBC) v commercial (ITV)

BBC: (Incorporation) Brief History of the BBC and the way it is funded
https://www.transdiffusion.org/2007/04/01/funding_the_bbc

Governance: What is the appointment process and who is accountable for


content / complaints? https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bbc-board-
members-for-scotland-and-england-appointed

How does TV finance itself?

BBC licence fees (How much is it, history of it)


Advertising (How much revenue do TV adverts make for channels)
Sponsorship (Programmes that are sponsored by products)
Subscription TV (Netflix / amazon)
Pay per view (Sky)

Non-Broadcasting revenue such as merchandising and Franchise (Dr Who)


Spin offs: Torchwood spin off from Dr Who (How much did that make the BBC)

How do we view TV and Video?

History of TV viewing from analogue TV (What is it) to digital; satellite and cable
and now the internet and on-demand.
What devises can we watch them on? Emerging technologies such as tablets
and mobile phones

How is TV regulated?

For example self-regulation (the watershed, pulling programmes if something has


happened – give examples here)
What is The Broadcasting Act 1990 and 1996?
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1107541/
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1107504/

How does OFCOM regulate TV?


https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/what-is-ofcom

Examples of where OFSTED have intervened – pulled programmes for example

As you write all this please make sure, you give examples COMPARE with each
other – so benefits of TV licence of advertising) and REFERENCE
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What issues do TV channels face?

Taste and decency – what the public deem tasteful and decent.

Quality and standards – The public service ethos (how they are required to show
a certain amount of religious or educational programmes but SKY will only show
if they get the money(The free market ethos))

Ratings wars – look at X factor v Planet Earth in 2016

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2308722/david-attenborough-reveals-
why-planet-earth-has-been-smashing-the-x-factor-in-ratings-battle/

Effects of On-Demand (how have TV ratings gone down now people can watch
it whenever they want and not when it is scheduled look at Britain’s got Talent as
an example)

https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2015/feb/05/netflix-subscription-
services-television-ad-revenues

http://fortune.com/2016/03/03/netflix-declining-tv-audience/

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/09/netflix-and-on-
demand-arent-killing-water-cooler-tv-theyre-saving-it/280113/

The effects of streaming online media (how is it censored compared to TV?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom

Don’t quote wiki!!

How does TV Influence and affect us?

(Use the work you did for Chris unit 6 on Hypodermic needle, active and passive
consumption)
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CRITICALLY evaluate what the following are and give examples!

Forms: fiction; documentary; news; advertising; promotional; hybrid

Narrative: linear; non-linear; single strand; multi-strand; realist; anti-realist; open


ended; closed; single episode; series; serial

Genre: Soap opera (original to modern day – why do us Brits love a soap
opera?), crime drama 9does it reflect real life crime – give examples such as The
Loch, Midsummer murders), hospital drama, lifestyle, makeover, consumer,
sitcoms, chat shows, the rise of ‘reality’ TV and dumb down TV

Analysis of a TV show

Looking at audience profiling; audience analysis; types of readings, eg


preferred, codes and conventions and narrative analysis

You could use EastEnders as an example

An analysis of EastEnders would explore its development as a product that is


both popular and high quality, being intended to entertain, educate and inform
its audience in the public service tradition. You could look at the audience for
The BBC and how EastEnders fits their remit.
The analysis would illustrate this through exploration of a specific multi-stranded
segment of the series exploring a current social issue in a way that challenges
stereotypes and provokes audience debate (Rape scenes / murder / incest! –
the list goes on with EastEnders).
However, it will also refer to arguments that increasingly sensationalised plot lines
reflect the competition for ratings, Drawing the BBC into a ratings war to justify its
license fee (so the BBC sensationalise ‘real life’ in order to draw in the crowds –
look at Christmas specials)

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