Media Institutions

BBC

The BBC was founded by John Reith in 1922. It is one of the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation which is funded by the residents in the UK.  It is a public service broadcaster (PSB) and is paid for by license fees.  The BBC remit; to inform, educate and entertain.  BBC has other channels such as BBC2, BBC3, BBC4 and radio stations which promote each other through advertisements. BBC has also expanded onto the internet  with BBC iplayer.  

Twitter

Founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey.  It allows you to tweet, retweet, forward another tweet and reply to a tweet.  It has 300 million users.  Twitter is a user generated content (UGC) this means it is controlled by the public.  It provides audience feedback and allows them to interact with news reporters.  Synergy; youtube vine.

News Corporation

Founded in Australia by Rupert Murdoch. It is one of the highest earning companies and a huge conglomerate. It splits into two, one being the news corp, which handles the newspapers and magazines etc. And the 21st century fox, which handles the TV and film side. Synergy; the times uses this to promote each other and itself. 

Disney

Founded by Walt Disney.  Disney is a huge conglomerate and is famous for its fairytales, most famous for the creation of Mickey mouse. Synergy; Walt Disney Pictures, Hollywood records, Disney Land, Disney Live, and the Disney Store. It also did some collaborations with pixar, who specialise in Computer generated imagery (CGI).

ITV

First launched in 1955. Biggest commercially funded programme. They are controlled and regulated by ofcom. Since the merger ITV has expanded its family of channels with the launch of ITV2 in 1998, ITV3 in 2004, ITV4 in 2005 and CITV in 2006. Following the Television Act of 1954 which made commercial television in the UK possible, ITV first began broadcasting in 1955 on Channel 3. The Broadcasting Act of 1990 allowed regional companies, under specific conditions, to merge for the first time. It paved the way for the consolidation of ITV and the first merger took place in 1994 when Granada bought LWT. 


Sony

It was founded in 1946 by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka. Sony is a is a multinational conglomerate, in Japan. Sony is famous for Sony Pictures, Music, Computer Entertainment and Sony Mobile Communications. Sony own Columbia Pictures, which is their biggest acievement so far.

Vivendi


Vivendi is a French digital entertainment comapny. It owns Canal+ Group, which is a TV channel and movie producer in France. The water company Compagnie Générale des Eaux, branched out into transport, construction, property.  In the 1990s, they then changed the name to Vivendi and launched digital channels in other countries as they expanded their company. 

Viacom
Viacom is a company based in America, who focuses on cinema and cable TV. It is the 6th largest broadcasting and cable company. National Amusements has voting control over Viacom. Viacom was produced from CBS Corporation. Synergy; signed a contract with Microsoft allowed both Microsoft and Viacom to advertise each other. Microsoft also collaborate on promotions with the BET and MTV awards, which are also owned by Viacom. Viacom also owns DreamWorks.