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News Unit

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What is News?  Information  Its a business  Its meant to make money  It informs the public of current situations   A broadcast or published report of news  A person or thing considered interesting enough to be reported in the news.  Informative but has become entertainment (Inform and Entertainment)  Fake news  Political  Profit  Educate  Influence or Persuade 5 main purpose of news. inform  educate  entertain  profit influence/ persuade  Facts  Newspaper are NOT PSB (like the BBC) they are commercial publications. Over three (77.8%) of the British press is owned by a handful of Billionaires. Over a quarter (27.3 per cent) of the press is owned by Lord  Rothermere   and 24.9 per cent by Rupert Murdoch -  between them these two men have over 50 per cent of t he printed press.  Newspaper and their online publications (example of synergy/ conv...

Radio 1 Live Lounge (Case Studies)

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Released on 16th October 2006 Target audience 15-29 Radio 1 live lounge is a collection of live tracks played on Jo Whiley's radio 1 show. it consists of both covers and the band's own songs. the album has sold 935,687 copies as of October 2014. Radio 1 introduced live lounge after the internet became popular to listen to music which meant radio 1 lost customers. they introduced live lounge to regain customers  On BBC, Iplayer, Deezer and Iplayer radio app  Known for artists covering other artists.  Harry styles English singer, songwriter and actor  His career started in 2010 when he joined The X factor. He was eliminated early on but was brought back to for the boy band One Direction. Born on 1 February 1994 Redditch  He is 25 years old  Net worth - £58 million  Available on Youtube, Spotify, Deezer, Google play music and Tuneln  Genre - Soft rock, Folk music, Pop music, Rock and Britpop  One direction  British...

Television industries & Audience

Publicly owned TV channel - where the funding comes from the government and licence fees for the public service, these include: radio, television and other media outlets.  Commercial TV channel - is a private broadcasting of television radio and programs. funded through advertising  Convergence -the merging of mass communication outlet. is the blending of multiple media forms into one platform. process of joining different technologies into one device e.g mobile phone  Watershed - the time when Tv programmes which might be unsuitable for children can be broadcasted. adult films between 9 pm & 5:30 am  Segmented market - is the activity of dividing a broad customer or business market, consisting of existing and potential customers. audience decided into different groups depending on taste and interests   Mainstream - abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence ...