Wednesday 14 September 2016

Research Activity

- Who are the major players in terms of news providers in the UK and what exactly do they own?
- companies, publications/channels/programmes, owners, statistics. 

Print/ broadcast..

Merdoch: 
 - He owns the twp big companies: 21st Century Fox and News Corp (UK)
 - He owns a little bit of everything - especially things in America - television, films, cable, newspapers, productions.  
- He has also owned  Satellite Television Holdings in China, and now he is also moving into places like the Middle East and Indonesia 
- Times(paywall) & Sun( conservative supporting)
2014: owns 1/3 newspaper market 


Mailonline: 18 million users/month (Right wing) 

BBC: 
The BBC is a Public Service Broadcaster as is owned not a profitable making business. It is paid for by TV License money. It is one of the biggest news providers. This is through BBC 1, but also have BBC News Channel, they have Newsround which is news targeted at a younder age group which is shown on BBC 1 and CBBC.
BBC 1
BBC 2
BBC News
CBBC
BBC website which provides news

TV news has to be politically neutral. 


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