Question | Answer |
What is the BBC's role? | 'Serve the public' |
What is the BBC's remit? | Inform, Educate and Entertain |
How do private broadcasters make money? | Advertising revenue Sponsorship Reality TV – e.g. viewer calls Sale of programmes/productions Merchandise |
Public Sector Broadcasters | BBC ITV Channel 4 |
Private Sector Broadcasters | ITV Sky Virgin |
Regulatory bodies | OFCOM BBFC ASA IPSO PEGI |
Which organisation regulates TV & Radio? | |
Which organisation regulates the press? | Independent Press Standards Organisation |
Which organisation regulates advertising? | (Advertising Standards Authority) |
What are the three sizes of company? | Local National Multinational |
Cross-media production | The different products and services within the creative media sector that a company produces |
Parent company | A company which controls other companies |
Subsidiary company | A company that is controlled by other companies |
Conglomerate | A large corporation made up of different companies e.g. News Corp |
Horizontal Intergration | When organisations own more than one company across a media sector e.g the BBC |
Vertical integration | When organisations own companies throughout the different stages of the production process |
Co-operative | A business which is owned and run by its members, whether they are customers, employees or residents. |
Mainstream products | Products and services which are readily available to and appealing to the general public, as opposed to being of interest only to a very specific subset of the public |
Independent products | provide alternative to mainstream media products |
Niche products | A product or service that appeals to a particular market subgroup |
Output | Media products |
What is the BBC Trust? | It is the governing body of the BBC and makes sure the BBC fulfils its remit of 'Inform, Educate and Entertain' |
What is the role of the BBFC? | It is responsible for classification and censorship of films in the UK |
Which organisation gives age ratings to video games? |
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