film 1 - Tv and film industry

Film one - Film and TV industry.

The are lots of film and tv industries like

International  - fox

National – channel 4

Regional (Burton news tv)

International is something that is broadcasted or shown world wide. 20^th century fox is a film company owned by news corporations. This company founded by William fox but is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch owns another 103 media company’s some of these include

·        Star gold

·        Fox news channel

·        The York weekly

·        Fox sports.com

·        My space

·        The sun

National is something that’s broadcasted nationally (To and from England) Such as channel 4 and BBC (British broadcasting channel) the BBC has many channels such as BBC one,

BBC 2, BBC 3, BBC 4, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC parliament, BBC alba and BBC HD.

The BBC who are public service broadcaster funded by the license fee paid by UK households. The BBC is funded by a government grant; it does not carry advertising. The funds do not go directly to the BBC but to the Treasury instead, via a government body known as TV Licensing.

Unlike ITV makes there money though adverts and sponsorships Which is why they play adverts between programs and the BBC don’t.

Regional is something that is broadcasted or written in the local area such as Burton mail

Burton Mail is part of Staffordshire Newspapers Limited, a media group which encompasses two daily newspapers, five weekly newspapers, and a selection of magazine titles. The Burton Mail is printed at Cambridge Newspapers Ltd’s Milton base.

The Film industry in the Midlands has contributed to some of the major British films made in the uk, through a company called em media. EM Media is an independent development agency, which means It raises finance from a range of public and private sources to invest in creative digital companies to achieve the long-term growth.

There are also film makers that come from Burton such as Paddy Considine which made the well known film Tyrannosaur.