BBC

 The BBC (The British Broadcasting Corporation) is a public service broadcaster. It is the largest broadcaster in the world with around 23,000 staff. The BBC main responsibility is to provide public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Channel Island and the Isle Of Man. The BBC is an autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under the Royal Charter and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary. Outside the UK, the BBC Word Station has provided  by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently television and online.

  The Privately owned BBC was the world’s first national broadcasting organization. The first transmission was on 14 November of that year. To represent its purpose and values, the corporation adopted the coat of arms including the motto 'Nation shall speak peace unto nation’. The motto is generally attributed to Montague John Rendall, who was former headmaster of Winchester College and also a member of the first BBC board of Governors.

Experimental television broadcasting was started in 1932 using an electromechanical 30 line system developed my John Logie Baired. Limited regular broadcasting began using this system in 1934 and expanded service from Alexander Palace in 1936 (now named the BBC Television Service).

Competition to the BBC was introduced in 1995 was the commercial and independently operated television network of the ITV. However the BBC monopoly on radio service would persist into the 1970's. As a result of Pilkington Committee report of 1962, in which the BBC was praised for the quality and range of its output, and ITV was heavily criticised. Starting in 1964 a series of pirate radio stations came on air, and forced the British Government to regulate radio station permits nationally based advertising-financed service. In response the BBC organised and renamed their radio channels. The light programme spilt making more radio stations for various listeners.

  The BBC run channels like BBC one, BBC two BBC three, BBC four, BBC HD, CBBC ect. They have so many channels that go out to a wide range of people who are different ages.These shows have various shows that go out to different people, that's why they have a number of different channels with various types of programmes on them.

Getting to Grips with the Industry: Miramax Films

Miramax Films is an American entertainment company owned by Disney. For the first 14 years Miramax Films was privately owned by its founders, bob and Harvey Weinstein. The companys name was named by combining the first names of there parents max and miriam.The company was orginally created to distribute independent films that were deemed commerically unfeasible by the major studios. In 1993 the company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey, headquartered in New York City, Miramax was a leading independent film motion picture distributed and Production Company before Walt Disney acquired it, until 2005 when they decided to leave the company and founded The Weinstein Company. Miramax was then sold to Filmyard Holdings by Disney in 2010. This ended Disney’s involvement with the studio for the first time in 17 years

  The company's first major success came when the Weinstein's teamed up with the British producer Martin Lewis and aquired the U.S rights to two concept films Lewis had produced of benifts show's for human right's organization Amnesty International. There resulting film was called The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. It was a successful release for the miramax in the summer of 1980's. Among the company's other breakthrough films as distributors in the late 1980's and early 1990's were The Crying Game and Clerks.

   Miramax aquired and produced many films that did extraordinarily well finacially. Miramax produced and distrubited seven films with box office grossing totalling more than $1 million. Its most successful title Chicago earned more than $300 million worldwide. The company was also exceptionally successful in securing Academy Award nominations for its release, many of which resulted in oscar wins. The company has been critized for delaying or withholding release of Asian films to which acquires distribution rights.

 After researching Miramax i found out that they started off as a small company then Disney took over them. They are just a film production they dont have anything else in the media.

Marie Claire Ownership and Stucture

Marie Claire is a monthly woman’s magazine, first published in France in 1937. The magazine covers topics like health, beauty and fashion topics. Jean Prouvost created the first issue in 1997, which was distributed every Wednesday. The German occupation authorities in France stopped the distribution of most magazines, and Marie Claire was one of them. The magazine was redistributed in 1954. It became a monthly publication. Prouvost retired in 1976 and his daughter Évelyne took over the magazine, which she then added L’Oreal group to the company. The magazine is distributed in 24 languages. You can find the magazine online or you can buy it from a shop. Marie Claire is a multinational magazine because it has it's magazine in more than one country.

     The Marie Claire magazine in america is published by Hearst Corporation which is a private media company. The UK Marie Claire magazine is published by Time Inc which is a subsidiary of Time Warner, the multinational media conglomerate. In 2006 the UK Marie Claire made a website which is based in london with segments on daily news, catwalk show, photographs and reports, fashion and beauty, buys of the day, daily horoscopes and competitions.The Magazines are the same but the advertisment are different.

   After reading about marie claire ive found out there not a big company like Dinsey and they dont own alot of things in media just a website and a magazine.Although it won 11 awards for various things.

Disney Ownership and Structure

Disney is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. It was founded in 1923 by Walt Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions Ltd in 1929, and became publicly traded as Walt Disney Productions in 1938. The key moments in Disney history are in 1967 construction begins on Walt Disney Restort in Florida started. In 1993 Disney acquires independent film distributor Miramax Films. In 1996 The company takes on the Disney Enterprises name and acquires the Capital Cities/ABC group, renaming it ABC, Inc. In 1999 Dinsey Cruise Line ship Dinsey Wonder sets sail. In 2001 Disney buys Fox Family Network, giving Disney programming and cable network reaching 81 million homes.Disney then changes Fox Family Network to ABC Family.In 2009 Disney acquires Marvel Entertainment.

The company is best known for the products of its film studio. Today one of the largest and best known studios in Hollywood. Disney owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as: Disney Channel, ESPN, ABC Family and publishing merchandising, theatre divisions and owns and licenses 14 theme parks around the world. This makes Disney a Multinational Media Conglomerate.

Disney merchandising began in 1929. Walt Disney was approached by a businessman interested in the placing of Mickey Mouse on the cover on a children’s writing table. Disney publishing worldwide is the world’s largest publisher of children’s books and magazines, reaching more than 100 million readers each month in 75 different countries.

Religious welfare groups have spoken out agasint the release of material which they and others found offensive. The Southern Baptist Convention and the American Family Assocaition voted to boycott Disney over opposition to the dinsey offering domestic partner benifits to gay employees and over oppostition to the ABC show Ellen, in which Ellen DeGeneres Character came out.

There are several conspiracy theories about Disney having sexual innuendo or references hidden in some of there animated movies, including The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin,Who Framed Rodger Rabbit and The Rescuers.I think that when i watch Disney films i do not see anything Racist or Sexual,I think that people just make these things out and make it into a big deal when its really nothing.

After researching Walt Disney Company I found that Disney don’t have much competition because they own so much it will be hard for little companies to compete with them. I think that because Disney is so big and everyone knows it, it is harder for smaller companies to get recognised.

Media Ownership

This is my first assignment, The blog post will have the follwoing title: Structure and Ownership of the media sector. For this assignment i will have to look into the Ownership and Structure of the media sector.