Public Media Sector

The BBC is a British public service broadcasting corporation. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. It is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.

The BBC is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London and has major production centres in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, London and Salford Quays and smaller production centres throughout the UK.

The principal means of funding the BBC is through the television licence, costing £145.50 per year per household since April 2010. 

According to the BBC's 2011/12 Annual Report its income can be broken down, as follows:

• £3,606.3 million in licence fees collected from householders;
• £222 million from BBC Commercial Businesses;
• £279.4 million from government grants;
• £271.9 million from other income, such as providing content to overseas broadcasters and concert ticket sales

Radio

Radio...

Radio is undergoing a digital revolution - every bit as profound as that affecting TV - and as with all revolutions many of the eventual outcomes are uncertain.


That rapid and profound impact has been experienced differently in different sectors of the industry - creating threats as well as opportunities. But despite all the uncertainty there is a sense abroad that this is an exciting period in the development.

At a time when the range of platforms for distribution of audio content is increasing, and media and telecommunications are converging across the board, defining what we mean by the "radio industry" now, or what it may become in future, is a challenge.

Advertising

Advertising...

Advertising has started around the late 19^th centuary...

Every day when we watch TV or read the newspaper, we come across advertisements. Advertising persuades people to buy a certain product. It brings goods to the attention of consumers.

At the beginning of production, advertising will inform you what a product is like, where you can get it and how much it costs. Later, it is necessary to persuade the people to keep on buying or attract new customers to buy. Modern advertising uses language, pictures, sound and colours to sell the products as well as possible.

The best times for commercials are the times at which people wait for something special like the news or sports. At these times advertising can be very successful, but it is also very expensive.

TV is one of the most powerful advertising medium, because you can get very detailed information about a product.

Depending on your target group you have to decide the time, when your spot shall be shown. It is not useful broadcasting an ad about cars in the children’s programmes because this is not

Your target group, they cannot buy a car.

In the afternoon there are many films on TV, which are interrupted regularly. At that time advertising can be very expensive. In fact, TV-adverts have a strange impact. You might have noticed how well you can remember slogans long after the spot is over.

Photography

Photography...

Skillset.org says that nearly 5000 people work in Photo Imaging in the region and over half of these are photographers. Most of the businesses are very small, with almost 90% employing just 1-5 people, reflecting the high number of freelancers and sole traders in the sector.

The Gaming Industry

The Gaming Industry

www.bis.gov.uk.com says that, the UK video and computer games industry makes a valuable contribution to our economy. Games made in UK studios generate global sales of around £1.7 billion a year and contribute around £400 million per annum to GDP.

The UK sector: employs around 28,000 people including 9,000 in highly-skilled games development roles
Have around 200 games development studios, located in clusters spread around the UK – for example in Brighton, Dundee, Guildford, Leeds, Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester and Coventry/Leamington Spa.
in 2009 was estimated to be the 5th largest producer of games in the world (measured by revenue) behind the US, Japan and Canada (data source: GIC/Tiga) is a location of the European headquarters for many multinational games companies Has a great reputation for talent in video games creation. British-based games developers are responsible for many iconic, globally successful games – such as the Little Big Planet, Lego Star Wars, Grand Theft Auto, Lemmings and the Tomb Raider series


The UK also has one of the world’s largest markets for video games. In 2009 the total size of the UK market was £3.311billion. This included games hardware sales of £1.06 billion and software sales of some £1.621billion.

Film and Broadcasting

Film and Broadcasting...
In South West England, around 600 people operate in the key sub-sectors of film production. Others working in the facilities industry provide services for film, for example in post production.

Much location filming is undertaken in South West England. A number of film festivals take place each year: Wild screen, the world's leading natural history film festival; Encounters combining the former Brief Encounters and Animated Encounters festivals, the Cornwall Film Festival, screening a range of Cornish films and featuring premieres; the Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival, dedicated to the art, craft, and business of writing for the screen.

Television in The Creative Media Industry

Television

In the Creative Media Industry

Broadcast Television is going through an extraordinary time of change and challenge.
It is still one of the most popular forms of entertainment and information, with the average British viewer still watching twenty hours or more per week. But the rapid growth of the internet and interactive media is competing strongly for audiences and revenues.

There are nine so called terrestrial broadcasters, whose output is broadcast through land-based transmitters. They include the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, S4C, SMG and UTV. There are also around 300 cable and satellite broadcasters. This sub-sector is dominated by major international players, including BSkyB, Virgin Media, Discovery, Disney and Viacom.

The average income received by the TV workforce in 2010 stands at £36,200. It is highest within Terrestrial TV where the average reported income is £38,900. The Cable and Satellite workforce has an average income of £34,800 and the Independent Production average stands at £35,300.
A total of 50,150 people from 2000 to 2009 are employed in the TV industry. This is estimated to be just under a tenth (9%) of the entire Creative Media Industries workforce. I found this statistic and the table below from a PDF file which I downloaded from skillset: http://www.creativeskillset.org/