Media of the United Kingdom consist of several different
types of communications media:
Ø Television
Ø Radio
Ø Newspapers/Magazines
Ø Web
sites
The UK has a range of providers,
the most prominent being the state-owned public service broadcaster,
the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). The BBC's largest
competitors are ITV plc, which operates 11 of the 15 regional television
broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, and News Corporation, which
holds a large stake in satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting and
also operate a number of leading national newspapers. Regional media is covered
by local radio, television and print newspapers. Trinity
Mirror operates 240 local and regional newspapers in the United Kingdom,
as well as national newspapers such as the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror [1].
The BBC
In terms of television BBC own BBC 1,2,3,4,
CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament, BBC Alba and BBC red button. BBC
possess a wide range of Radio stations they are, BBC radio 1, BBC radio 1Xtra,
BBC radio 2, BBC radio 3, BBC radio 4, BBC radio extra, BBC radio 5 live, BBC
radio 5 live sports extra, BBC radio 6 music, BBC Asian Network, BBC Local
Radio, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Nan Gáidheal, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio
Cymru, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle. BBC has a future media division
which is in charge of all of BBC’s digital output; this includes BBC Online
(which is home to BBC news and sport on demand, as well as BBC iPlayer and
CBeebies and Bitesize. Also, BBC Red Button (Digital Interactive Media).
ITV
ITV plc is divided into three
divisions: ITV Broadcasting Limited, which operates the TV networks (including
the ITV News Group, which runs the ITV regional licensees); ITV
Studios, which comprises both UK and international production, ITV's facilities
businesses and Global Entertainment which exploits programme rights; and ITV
Commercial & Online, which runs itv.com (including ITV
Player) and ITV's advertising sales arm, and has responsibility for ITV plc's
shareholdings in Freeview, Freesat, SDN and YouView.
ITV own 12-15 regional Television
licenses. The channels that ITV own are:
Ø ITV2
Ø ITV3
Ø ITV4
Ø ITV
Encore
Ø CITV
Ø The
store
Ø Time
shift and HD feeds for ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and ITV Encore
News Corp
News Corp is owned by Rupert
Murdoch and has a large stake in the UK with BSkyB. In the print platform News
Corp owns:
Ø The
Sun
Ø The
Times,
Ø The
Sunday Times
Ø Press
Association.
They own the HarperCollins book
publishing company, as well as Sky network television and having a 39.1% in the
UK and Ireland. The cable television channels they own are Fox New, National
Geographic channel International, Nat Geo Wild, FX, FOX and Syfy. With regard
to the Internet/Digital media they own Foxsports.com (a website with sports
new, score, statistics video and fantasy sports), Hulu (27%) (This is an online
video streaming site partnership with NBC Universal and the Walt Disney Company),
Flektor (They are a provider of Web-based tools for photo and video editing and
mashups), Slingshot Labs (Web development incubators), Strategic Data Corp
(Interactive advertising company which develops technology to deliver targeted internet
advertising), Scout.com, Whatifsports.com (a sports simulation and prediction
website), Propertfinder.com and Sherlock publications (Owner of
Hotproperty.co.uk).
Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror is a large British
newspaper magazine and digital publisher. It is Britain’s biggest newspaper group,
publishing 240 regional papers as well as the national Daily Mirror, Sunday
Mirror and people, and the Scottish Sunday mail and Daily Record. Only recently
Trinity Mirror launched their website UsvsTh3m.com and Ampp3d.com on an
experimental basis. UsVsTh3m is
a website similar to Buzzfeed focused on quizzes and Flash games, edited
by B3ta founder Rob Manuel and running the Tumblr platform. Ampp3d is
focused on data journalism and uses the Word Press platform.
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