ITV Essays

  • 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

  • Essay On Joe Spud

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    BBC One sketch show Little Britain. Walliams and Lucas starred in a show called “Come Fly with me.” He has written and starred in the BBC One sitcom Big School, playing Chemistry teacher Keith Church, since August 2013. David has been a judge on the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent. He compered the 2012 Royal Variety Performance. Walliams has written six children's books The Boy in the Dress (2008), Mr Stink (2009), Billionaire Boy (2010), Gangsta Granny (2011), Ratburger (2012), and Demon Dentist

  • Company Watch - BSkyB

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    Over this period the main articles for BSkyB in the news were that Dawn Airey will become the managing director of BskyB, being paid £1 million a year. Dawn Airey formerly work as the Channel Five chief executive but was seemingly joining the ITV network but was snatched

  • A Look into Digital Broadcasting

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    A Look into Digital 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

  • Public Service Broadcasting

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    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 entertained has been emulated by the other terrestrial broadcasters, beginning with ITV in the 1950s. However, recent years have shown a breakdown to this widespread agreement and the term “public service broadcasting” now seems to exist as more of an amorphous notion than anything with a real concrete description. Perhaps because the

  • Crime Drama on British Television

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    Crime Drama on British Television The relevant industry for my crime drama is obviously television. In Britain there are five 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

  • 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

  • The Changes in Police and Crime Drama Over Time

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    The Changes in Police and Crime Drama Over Time Crime drama has always been featured as one of the most popular genres of our society. However over the year’s crime drama has been changed and adapted to fit into different times. Many aspects of crime drama have been changed such as camera shots, seriousness of crimes and police language/jargon in order for crime drama to change with the times, become more realistic and retain its former popularity. Throughout time many crime programmes

  • 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

  • British Soap Operas

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    06 Apr. 2011. . Newman, Lorraine, prod. Eastenders. BBC. BBC1, 3, HD, London, United Kingdom, 4 Apr. 2011. Television. November, Steve, prod. Emmerdale. ITV. ITV1, London, United Kingdom, 5 Apr. 2011. Television. Toye, Joanna. The Archers. BBC. BBC Radio 4, London, United Kingdom, 5 Apr. 2011. Radio. Warren, Tony. Coronation Street. ITV. ITV1, London, United Kingdom, 4 Apr. 2011. Television.

  • 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

  • Richard Dyer, Terry Lovell, and Jean McCrindle - Soap Opera and Women

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    Dyer, Lovell, and McCrindle (1977) take up the matter of women's viewing of--and representation in--the soap opera, a popular form of entertainment. They make the case that genres specially addressed to a female audience--such as the soap opera--should be examined critically. Their paper has inspired many researchers to study the soap opera as well as female genres more generally and the female audience (quoted in Gray and McGuigan, 1993, p. 2). SOAP OPERA AND WOMEN 1. Introduction Critics

  • Summary: Fresh Off The Boat

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    Procedure Fresh Off the Boat is a sitcom whose initial air date was February 4, 2015. As of February 27, 2018, a total of 77 episodes, spanned across four seasons, have been aired (ABC). To determine which season to research, the researcher looked through each season to determine which would provide her the most content. This was not a difficult process as she had already been watching this show prior to beginning the research. The first season was chosen for examination because it offered the most

  • The Importance Of The Mass Media

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    There are five major nationwidetelevision channels: BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5—currently transmitted by analogue and digital terrestrial, free-to-air signals with the latter three channels funded by commercial advertising. The United Kingdom now has a large number of digital terrestrial channels including a further six from the BBC, five from ITV and three from Channel 4, and one from S4C which is solely in Welsh, among a variety of

  • BBC's Current Marketing Plan

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    on it. The competitors of the BBC have also ventured into the digital television revolution. ITV 2, ITV News, E4, Film Four, Film 4 World and Film 4 Extreme all stepped into the digital limelight before or at the same time as the BBC’s digital channels. The BBC should be wary of the way in which its arch rival, ITV, through away its first and probably only attempt to launch its own box. On digital/ITV digital paid over the odds for football coverage and then failed to attract enough subscribers

  • The Program: Men Behaving Badly

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    When ITV decided not to take up the option for a third series, Beryl Vertue took the series to the BBC; switching networks was almost unprecedented. The programme went from strength to strength, won many awards and regularly received rave reviews, handsomely rewarding the BBC's faith in the project... Men Behaving Badly One of the BBC's most popular comedies in the 1990s, Men Behaving Badly, didn't even begin on the BBC! Written by Simon Nye, the series was originally on ITV and starred

  • The Three Gorges Dam

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    pbs.org/itvs/greatwall/yangtze.html [14] Adams, Patricia, Haggart, Kelly. Whose Behind China’s Three Gorges Dam, http://www.nextcity.com/probeinternational/ThreeGorges/who.html [15] Ibid. www.pbs.org/itvs/greatwall/yangtze.html [16] Schmidt, Jeremy. China’s coming Flood. International wildlife v26 p34-43. S/O ’96 http://O-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.sculib.scu.edu/hww/results/results_si... [17] Ibid. www.pbs.org/itvs/greatwall/yangtze.html [18] Ibid. www.pbs.org/itvs/greatwall/yangtze

  • Steve Jobs: The Man The Myth The Legend

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    “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next” (Steve Jobs: Iconoclast and Salesman). Apple Incorporated has been the envy of the business world since Steve Jobs regained control of the company in the late 1990s. Jobs, a true visionary, was able to create products previously inconceivable, and lead Apple to the top of the technology world. Unfortunately, Jobs passed away on October

  • The Main Characteristics Of Public Service Broadcasting And Media

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    Citing academic sources briefly explain the main characteristics of public service broadcasting/media. Can public service broadcasting/media survive in a multiplatform digital on-demand media landscape? By Caitlin Valentina Jones W1537904 Television has revolutionised the way we see the world and has shaped us as human beings. We have seen the most cherished and beloved moments as well as the cruelest and heart-wrenching on the small screen. Public service broadcasters were the first

  • Willy Russell's Educating Rita

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    little to do they have with each other, each representative of each class in the play is depicted as having made stereotypes of the other: 'Rita: Can I smoke? Frank: Tobacco? Rita: Yeh. Was that a joke?' And: 'Rita: You wouldn't watch ITV would y'? Its all BBC with you, isn't it? Frank: Well I must confess Rita: It's all right, I know. Soon as I walked I here I said to meself, 'Y' can tell he's a Flora man. Frank: A what? Rita: A Flora man. Frank: Flora? Flowers?'