Television Institutions.

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               Ahmet Kirac                     Media Work On Television Institutions

 

When we home from school, work or aver fining we switch on the television to watch a particular programme. We have certain expectations that the programme will start and finish at a specific time. We see television as it is a normal part of everyday life. Like reading a newspaper, shopping or going to school.

One of the biggest channels is BBC. BBC is funded through the licence fee. Everyone in England how has TV must pay for this licence. This licence pays for the programmes on the BBC and on the radio stations owned by the BBC (radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). There are no adverts on the BBC or these radio stations. It is a non-commercial (not there to make a profit) stations whereas ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 are commercial stations (there to make profit).

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Channel ITV, channel 4 and channel 5 are been owned by large moneymaking organisations whose aim is to make profit for their shareholders. So they charging advertisers large sums of promote their products on these stations (usually six minutes of adverts per hour). SKY and cable have no restrictions on how many adverts they show in any hours, therefore, have far more adverts as this means more profit for theme.

Most of the channels complement with each other, for example on Thursday the 20 of April on ITV there is Emmerdaleand at 7.00o’clock and on BBC1 there is watchdog with ...

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