'Humans' & Television Industry

Television Industry

An introduction to the television industry

- Television is a specialised industry, television is a fractured industry

Television has changed considerably since the advent of digital technology regarding its production, distribution and consumption. It has become a global, rather than a national industry and has become increasingly commercial, with public service broadcasting forced to adapt its structure, role and function. International co-production is growing and broadcasters such as HBO have achieved global success.

We are living in a world of digital convergence.

How did distribution, circulation and marketing shape Humans?

the idea of consumerism

ownership and economic factors

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; formerly a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority(IBA),^[1] the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,^[2] which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became a UK-wide TV channel for the first time.

The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and the single commercial broadcasting network ITV.