Professional Documents
Culture Documents
BBC: (Incorporation) Brief History of the BBC and the way it is funded
https://www.transdiffusion.org/2007/04/01/funding_the_bbc
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?
As you write all this please make sure, you give examples COMPARE with each
other – so benefits of TV licence of advertising) and REFERENCE
LO2
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))
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/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom
(Use the work you did for Chris unit 6 on Hypodermic needle, active and passive
consumption)
LO3
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