Conglomerate

A large business organization consisting of several different companies that have joined together
e.g. Rupert Murdochis one person but owns companies all over the world, he used to own News OF The World, untill recently it closed down because of a phone hacking scandle.

Public & Private Ownership

Public Ownership
Public ownership is the ownership by a public body representing society, government, state power or some other political body. Like the BBC, the TV licence is payed by the public so it makes it owned by the public

Private Ownership
Being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body. Other media companies dont get funded by the TV licence so they have to pay for the company them selves.

Diferent sources of income in the creative sectors

The first way media companys gets income is by advertisements, advertisers pay the company to put an advert in to thier product.

The second way media companies get income in is by sponsorships. e.g. xFactor gets sponsored of Talk Talk.

The third way media companies get income in is by investors, investors invest money into the company for a percentage of the profit back to them.

There is another way but it only works for the BBC. TV licence money all goes to the BBC which can pay for everything, because everyone in the UK pays for a TV licence, which is a lot of money.

Key terms in media

• Takeover

Takeover means when a big company comes and takes over another company to make it their own

• Merge

Merge is when two companys come together and work as one

• Vertical intergration

The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.

• Horizontal integration

absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level.

• When a company expands its business into areas that are at different points on the same production path, such as when a manufacturer owns its supplier and/or distributor.

Publishing Sector

The Publishing industry generates a turnover in the region of £10.1 billion and is one of the biggest earners and exporters for the UK Creative Media Industries

Publishing is made up of many different sectors:

• Books;
• Journals (including electronic journals);
• Newspapers;
• News agencies;
• Magazines and business media;
• Directories and mailing lists;
• Other information services

The Publishing industry employs over 195,000 people, Over 51,000 people are employed in the newspaper sector, with 50,500 working in journals and magazines, 33,000 in the book industry and nearly 12,000 in other information service activities.

Photo Imaging

The total Photo Imaging workforce comprises around 43,100 people. 51% of these are based in the south of England, with the largest proportion - some 38% - in London and the South East. The rest of the workforce is spread throughout Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the remaining regions of England, with the highest concentrations in the South West (13%) and the East of England (12%).

The Photo Imaging industry is made up of 8,700 companies, two thirds (68%) of which are sole trading or freelance photographers.

Interactive Media

The interactive media industry is a very fluid sector with many overlaps with, and blurred distinctions between, other sectors.

It is worth several billion pounds annually and employs around 43,000 people, representing approximately 22% of the total Creative Media Industries. Interactive media is not so much a sector as a discipline, as its creation and use is increasingly becoming part of everyday activity across all sectors of industry in general.

Animation Production

The animation industry in the UK consists of a workforce that stretches across many of the sectors in the creative media industries. You will find animated content on television, in feature films, commercials, websites and computer or video games.

The animation industry in the UK consists of a workforce that stretches across many of the sectors in the creative media industries. You will find animated content on television, in feature films, commercials, websites and computer or video games.

Animation companies currently provide employment for around 4,700 people throughout the UK, of whom nearly two fifths are freelance or on short term contracts, with almost 20% Sole Traders, or self-employed. The largest key occupational groups are draw/stop frame animation employing around 1,000 people, producing (910), computer generated animation (900), and production (430). In addition, a further 1,100 more people are employed in key animation roles in other audiovisual sectors.

Radio Production

 

 

The radio has been the first device to allow for mass communication. It has enabled information to be transferred far and wide, not only nationally wide but internationally as well. The development of the radio began in 1893 with Nikolai Tesla’s demonstration of wireless radio communication in St. Louis, Missouri. His work laid the foundation for those later scientists who worked to perfect the radio we now use. The man most associated with the advent of the radio is Guglielmo Marconi, who in 1986 was awarded the official patent for the radio by the British Government.

 

These operators fall into three broad categories: publicly-funded radio, commercial radio and the community and voluntary radio sector - from well-established student and hospital radio to the most recently licensed community radio stations. The industry has been growing steadily in recent years and now employs over 22,000 people (more than terrestrial TV) in a wide range of occupations. Employers range in size from the BBC and larger commercial radio groups to not-for-profit community radio stations run mainly by volunteers.