BBC Essays

  • The Formation and Development of BBC Radio

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    The Formation and Development of BBC Radio Text Box: The BBC was established as a private corporation in October 1922, funded through a broadcast receiving licence fee plus ten per cent of the revenue generated from the sale of radio receivers. The service was an immediate success, with over a million licences sold by the Post Office before regular daily transmissions began. Within three years around 85 per cent of the population was able to receive the broadcasts, which consisted of

  • BBC News

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    BBC News The BBC news is a British public broadcasting aimed to show the world the real truth and different types of news. It covers news on many areas of the technology world; topics range from internet security issues to gaming reviews, there is a lean toward coverage relevant to a UK audience, believing that all should have the right to know and share knowledge as this quote I took from the site: “The BBC sees its audience as citizens who have the right to independent and impartial information

  • Comparing News Bulletins by BBC and ITV

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    Comparing News Bulletins by BBC and ITV The news is a collection of information, which is presented to people in different forms. It is broadcasted via several types of media including television, radio and newspapers, although news does get broadcasted through other means. People find the news important because they want to know what is happening and information only makes the news because it is deemed important enough to tell people. News is usually in four groups; international, national

  • Review of BBC One, 6 O'clock News

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    Review of BBC One, 6 O'clock News The BBC is a public broadcasting service, which has always been thought of as displaying and promoting views of the entire nation to the public, of which should always conform to the objectives of the institution (mainly educational). The news therefore is seen as a programme that informs and educates the public on current affairs, nationally and globally without introducing any bias or portraying anything in an unfair light. This is so that the audience

  • The BBC Organization

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    The BBC Organization The BBC stands for the British Broadcasting Co-operation. The British Broadcast is a very well established organisation. It was formed in 1922 by a group of leading wireless manufactures, the daily broadcasting by the BBC began from Marconi's London Studio on November 14th, this followed the next day by broadcasts from Birmingham and Manchester. During the following few months the BBC organisation was successfully able to broadcast around the U.K this effectively showed

  • Public Service Broadcasting

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    Public Service Broadcasting From the establishment of the BBC in the late 1920s, British audiences were given the opportunity of taking part in a shared national experience and interest. Since that time, an apparent agreement has existed as to the general aims of broadcasting by the BBC which fell under the heading “public service broadcasting.” Although the BBC no longer enjoys a broadcasting monopoly, the promise to provide a mix of programming by which audiences may be educated as well as

  • A Look into Digital Broadcasting

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    Broadcasting Digital Broadcasting will have a fundamental effect on viewing patterns, popular culture and audience identity. This will be done firstly by looking at the history of the BBC and the original intention of Public Service Broadcasting. It will discuss how by John Reith’s successful approach to broadcasting, the BBC became a National Institution creating popular culture and a National Identity. It will examine how these first steps and ideas have major role in the introduction of Digital Broadcasting

  • An Analysis of Gloucester

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    productions. It will show how Gloucester ages and has similar problems as that of the King. In the first part of the play Gloucester receives a letter from Edmond, his bastard son, as the first plot towards the down fall of his father, Gloucester. In the BBC version Gloucester seems to be somewhere in his seventies, where in the PBS version Gloucester seems to be in his sixties a much younger man. This letter makes Gloucester believe that his ligament son has betrayed him, which makes Gloucester very angry

  • Birth of the BBC

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    Birth of the BBC In 1920 the first true radio station (KDKA) began regular broadcasting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Within two years the number of stations in America reached into the hundreds, concerts were being broadcast regularly in Europe from The Hague, and in Britain, Marconi stations broadcast from Chelmsford, Essex, and then London. It was in Britain that fears over the "chaos of the ether" led to the Post Office and leading radio manufacturers setting

  • In the UK, radio and television broadcasting developed as a public service and remained so for a long time. But in the US broadcasting was dominated b

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    INTRODUCTION. Within this essay I will analyze how Radio and Television Broadcasting differs in approach within the UK and US. This essay will explain how the UK use Radio and Television Broadcasting as a Public Service opposed the US who dominate these services as a Private enterprise and will then determine which approach is better and why. Radio was invented in 1896 as a form of wireless telegraphy, which transmits the Morse code without the need for fixed stations and cables; this system was

  • A Comparison of Two Film Openings to Great Expectations

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    language and we expected the characters to act just like they do in the book. We also expected the storyline to be exactly the same as the book so it looks faithful and true. David Leans version was made in 1946 so it is shot in black and white. The BBC Version was made in 1997 and was in colour. Lean's version is very similar to the novel more than the B.B.C version. Lean's was the most effective at using most of the dialogue than the B.B.C version. The B.B.C version used a small amount of the

  • Royalties and Licensing

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    music onto any kind of media for public distribution, for example, cassette tapes and CDs. The permission to reproduce the composition/song must be granted by the pub... ... middle of paper ... ...s, the £11.53 per minute on BBC Radio one or the £19.64 per minute on BBC Radio 2. PRS for Music is not to be confused with Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) which essentially serves the same purpose. However, where PRS for Music collects royalties on behalf of the author, songwriter, composer and

  • Sir John Reith

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    Sir John Reith Sir John Reith was the first Director General of the BBC, and he had particularly strong views on broadcasting as having a cultural and moral responsibility as a means of educating and informing the masses. He once famously stated – ‘It is occasionally indicated to us that we are apparently setting out to give the public what we think they need- and not what they want – but

  • Comparing the Opening Scenes of the David Lean and the B.B.C. Versions of Great Expectations By Charles Dickens

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    Versions of Great Expectations By Charles Dickens David Lean's version of Great Expectations is in my opinion more effective at showing the fear and tension in Scene 1. David Leans version was made in 1946 so it is shot in black and white. The BBC Version was made in 1997 and was in colour. Lean's version is very similar to the novel more than the B.B.C version. Lean's was the most effective at using most of the dialogue than the B.B.C version. The B.B.C version used a small amount of the

  • Boston Beer Company Strategic Analysis

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    Overview At the request of Management, a strategic analysis* (SA) for the Boston Beer Company (BBC) has been prepared. BBC is a company that focuses on “Better Beer,” a market which amounts to 27 percent of the total United States (US) beer consumption by volume (Boston Beer Co., 2016). Table 1 provides the details of BBC’s barrels sold and the corresponding net revenues from 2013-15. In 2015, BBC sold 60+ beverages under the “Core Brand” of Samuel Adams® and Sam Adams®, while also vending 60+

  • Importance Of Media History

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    I choose BBC as an example. According to “broad casting and youth”(Calouster, 1979) BBC mission was ‘inform, educate and entertainment’(Calouste Gulbenlian Foundation, 1979, p61) which is same as now “To enrich people 's lives with programs and services that inform, educate and entertain” in 2015(BBC report). In the book, he also mentions about how BBC managed to expand its contents to youth generation (Calouster, 1979). However why does BBC make a such a effort? Helen (2007)

  • Sport and the Media

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    Sport and the Media The growth of television as a significant cultural form during the 1960s put the relationship between sport and the media on the public agenda. In late 1969, the US magazine Sports Illustrated drew attention to the ways in which television was transforming sport. In effect, sport in the television age was a 'whole new game'. The growing economic and cultural significance of television for sport gradually became a pertinent issue in countries around the world.Clearly

  • Crime Drama on British Television

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    terrestrial Channels, which include BBC 1 and 2, Independent Television ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Each of these is an example of an institution in the television industry with their own ethos, programme schedules and style. The television industry began with BBCTV which launched in 1936 to a minority audience and was part of the BBC’s then media monopoly. BBC television was then and still is a Public Service Broadcaster (PSB), the ethos of the BBC is to inform, educate and entertain

  • Comparing the Opening and Witches Scenes in Macbeth

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    Comparing the Opening and Witches Scenes in Macbeth We watched two different versions of Macbeth. One was the BBC Shakespeare and the other one was a production called Middle English! While both productions told the story of the original play by William Shakespeare they were different in a number of ways. The BBC Shakespeare presents a traditional version of Macbeth. The director starts with a long shot of a bleak, empty landscape. As the camera zooms in it starts to focus on a granite

  • Unrelated Incidents’ by Tom Leonard and Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt

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    the person? ‘Unrelated Incidents’ by Tom Leonard and ‘Search for my Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt are two poems that give people an incite into how a person is perceived by others, by the way that they speak. ‘Unrelated Incidents’ is about how the BBC newsreaders all talking in Standard English and will not have a Scottish person reading the news because the viewers will not understand there accent, Tom Leonard views this as discrimination and shows his dislike to this attitude in his poem. ‘Search