Television industries and audiences

Television:
Industries and Audiences
L/O: To research the history, companies and regulators in the television industry.

Publicly owned TV channel:
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.
Commercial TV channel:
Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media.
Convergence:
Media convergence is the blending of multiple mediaforms into one platform.
Watershed:
The watershed means the time when TV programmes which might be unsuitable for children can be broadcast.
Segmented market:
The fact that different media is used to reach different audience.
Mainstream:
Mainstream media is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people.
Self-Regulating:
Able to broadcast anything without the use of third party bodies or industries.
Franchise:
License from company if a product to use ideas.
Channel-surfing:
Switching to different channels frequently .
PSB:
Public Service Broadcasting: regulators demand channels fulfil certain requirements as part of their license to broadcast.
TV licence:
A payment required to watch TV.
Scheduling:
Organising the broadcast of TV programmes on a channel.
Conglomerate:
A company that owns several smaller businesses whose products are very similar.

TV was introduced into the UK in 1955.
In 1965 there were 2 channels; BBC1 and ITV.
ITV started in 1955 it was showing the news.
The channels that have to follow the PSB are:
BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC Parliament, BBC HD Services, ITV, STV and BBC Alba in Scotland, UTV in Northern Ireland, Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C in Wales.
Ofcom now regulates TV.
ITA and BBC regulated channels in the 1960's.
In the 1960's the TV's had only two channels and nowadays they have thousands of channels.