Getting to Grips with the Industry

BBC

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is cross-media British public service broadcaster with its headquarters in the City of Westminster in London. The BBC is the largest broadcaster in the world and it has its funding coming from each household all over the UK, as the annual cost of a coloured TV licence is £145.50 which would be equivalent to around £12.13 per month or just under 40p per day.

The BBC has 10 different TV channels with an age range from children to adults. These are:

v  BBC One

v  BBC Two

v  BBC Three

v  BBC Four

v  CBBC

v  Cbeebies

v  BBC News

v  BBC Parliament

v  BBC HD

v  BBC Red Button

To pay for these, roughly the BBC takes £7.96 from the TV licence per month, per household. In total from all of the money taken from the TV licence that has been spent on the BBC, a £2,351 million (66%) has been spent in total.

Looking back on the BBC history, it is privately owned and is one of the world’s first ever national broadcasting organisations there was.  The BBC was founded on October 18^th, 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd, (BBC). It is an original company to this very day from when it was frst founded in 1922, and was founded by a group of six different telecommunications companies which were:

v  Marconi

v  Radio Communications Company (RCC)

v  Metropolitan – Vickers (Merto Vick)

v  General Electric

v  Western Electrics

v  British Thomson-Huston (BTH)

And these were to broadcast experimental radio services. The first ever transmission made by these was in November 14^th of the year they all founded together, from the station 2LO which was located at Marconi House in London.

In my opinion, I think the BBC is one of the best broadcasters on the television. As a PSB, the BBC isn’t allocated to show any advertisement during programs which are on the BBC and I think that this is a good thing. Even though the BBC takes money from the TV license to pay for their funding which I think is a fair amount to pay for our own entertainment considering people pay more money on certain pleasures in life. The BBC is a true broadcaster which contains many different channels what target different age groups. As the broadcaster is not allowed to be bias, everything on the channels which are shown are genuine programs which will help the audience have their own opinion on the matter instead of being turned to what a certain channel is outing across.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. is a successful film company, being a subsidiary of Time Inc. one of the world’s largest media conglomerates. Warner Bros. is a television entertainment and also an American producer of film. Warner Bros. in the mid 20’s was part of the big 5 major companies, showing that they have been around for a while.

Warner Bros. was founded by four of the Warner brothers of Hirsch (Harry), Aaron (Albert), Samul (Sam) and Jacob (Jack). The three eldest brothers began in the movie theatre business, and then began to show films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio as they acquired a movie projector. The two brother’s Harry and Sam had a dispute on adding synchronized sound to their movie productions, and then later on they signed a contract with Western Electric, a sound engineering company and then established Vitaphone. Vitaphone was a sound film process used on many feature films from Warner Bros. who produced 1,000 short subjects (feature film). Vitaphone was most successful of the sound-on-disc processes but it also was the last. The first ever ‘talkies’ film, also known as a talking picture, was produced by Warner Bros. in 1927. The Jazz Singer had very little dialog and still turned out to be a sensation as it featured sound segments of Jolson singing.