Media Ownership Homework: Week 6

Overall, there are many issues in which media ownership upholds. Firstly, major companies like the BBC are threats to smaller, independent news providers. It could easily be viewed as a monopoly, in which it gets most of the TV audience. Organisations like the BBC, funded by the licence fee, as well as Channel 4 and Ofcom, make it harder for other broadcasters to survive due to their income that will continue to rise, whilst others may fall.

The license fee in general is also a big issue in media ownership. In my opinion, the television licence fee is unfair and should be replaced with a voluntary subscription service for certain programming so that you pay for what you want to watch and are not paying for unnecessary, unwatched channels. It can also be costly for some people, who may not always be able to afford the £12.13 per month.

Finally, the last major issue is that most people get their knowledge on politics from the media, especially from TV meaning that they trust and believe whatever is on the front page of a newspaper, truthful or not. This can affect how people view their Government, due to negative press being published by journalists leading people to have certain views on politics. As well as that, when the public and media join together, it can be a powerful force that puts pressure on politicians when under the public eye. 

Media Ownership Homework: Week 5

Main issues the video presents:

• Most people get their knowledge on politics from the media, especially from TV.
• Critical journalists have caused a huge impact on Scottish people, and how they view Scottish politics due to their negative press.
• Relationships between the media and politicians are ambiguous, they need each other but are suspicious of each other.
• If you took the media out of politics, all the public would be clueless to whats going on, and the people who are in power would probably abuse it, taking advantage of the fact that no one is watching them.
• Owners of media have their own motifs for writing or saying something, and it could be conveying their own political opinions.
• Sometimes the newspapers and journalists become the campaigners, Peterhead prison avoided closure due to Scotland's most politically influential newspaper. On occasions like this, the media made the difference.
• When the newspapers and public get together, it is a powerful combination that politicians cant ignore.

Media Ownership Homework: Week 4

TV channel : itv 
Launched: 22nd September 1955, United Kingdom
How are they funded?: Funded by advertising and sponsorship such as their £425m television deal with The Football Assocation to show their content.
Who owns it: CEO - Adam Crozier, however it is split between 3 owners, them being: ITV plc, STV Group and UTV Media.
What they show: News, sport, weather, children's programming and much more
Headquaters: London

Media Ownership Homework: Week 3

Media terminology:
Monopoly: A situation in which a single company or group owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service.
Conglomerate: A conglomerate is a corporation that is made up of a number of different, seemingly unrelated businesses.
Multi-national: Including or involving several countries or individuals of several nationalities.
Media tycoon: The means of communication that reach large numbers of people, such as television, newspapers, and radio  
Plurality: A usually large number of things
Public service broadcaster: TV programmes that are broadcast for the public benefit rather than for purely commercial purposes.

Media Ownership Homework: Week 2

Rupert Murdoch PowerPoint

Media Ownership Homework: Week 1

Rupert Murdoch mind-map: text2mindmap.com/LnvzhLB

Extension: 
a. Some of the points Murdoch makes include:

• State-sponsored journalism like the BBC are becoming a threat to smaller, independent news providers
• The scope of the BBC's activities and ambitions was "chilling" and threatened to wipe out smaller businesses
• Organisations like the BBC, funded by the licence fee, as well as Channel 4 and Ofcom, made it harder for other broadcasters to survive
• He also added that as other news provisions may fall, the BBC's income will continue to be guaranteed and growing

b. In my opinion, I think that the BBC's power is a huge contrast to smaller news businesses within some reason. I do feel as though they have a little too much power due to the fact of them slowly wiping out other news provisions. In terms of the licence fee in which funds the BBC, it primarily benefits the BBC itself as it is what makes up their profit. A lot of people would argue that we should have to pay for our viewing through the monthly licence fee. However in my opinion, the television licence fee is unfair and should be replaced with a voluntary subscription service for certain programming so that you pay for what you want to watch and are not paying for unnecessary, unwatched channels.