Glossary

AUDIENCE -
A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance such as a concert or a play.


ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY (ASA) -
The ASA is independent regulator for advertisements, sales promotion and direct marketing in the UK, they make sure that everything meets the high standards layed down in the advertising codes.


BROADCASTERS AUDIENCE RESEARCH BOARD (BARB) -
The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, or BARB, is the organisation that compiles television ratings in the UK, it provides infomation about an estimation of the audience levels per minute watching t.v.

BRITISH BOARD OF FILM CLASSIFICATION (BBFC) -
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), originally British Board of Film Censors, is the organisation legally responsible for film and game classification within the United Kingdom


BROADCASTING -
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience over a network from either one person or a source to another.


COMPANY SIZE: MAJOR COMPANIES (TNC) -
A company such as Fox News or CNN

COMPANY SIZE: BIG TO MEDIUM SIZED -
a company with a turnover that is less that 22.8 million and a profit less that 9.8 million.


COMPANY SIZE: INDEPENDENT -
a company that are souly responsible for themselves and are not run by anybody else.


CROSS MEDIA COMPANIES -
draws the viewers of t.v and pres to start using mobiles and the web more oftern.

HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION -
when companies own more than 1 building or film genreally of the same size. oftern its one company buying out another.

INSTITUTION -
An organisation that invests ciefly in financial assets such as banks, finance companies and credit unions.


NEW MEDIA INDUSTRY -
digital network infomation and commuincation merging together in the later park of the 20th centry.

NARROWCASTING -
a certain channel chooses to broardcast to a certain audience such as sky sports news and the sci fi channel.

NATIONAL READERSHIP SURVEY (NRS) -
company that records, estimates and surveys the number of readers of major news papers or magazines.


OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS (OFCOM) -
independent regulatory body for the communications companies in the uk such as BT and Virgin media.


PRESS COMPLAINTS COMMISSION (PCC) -
regulatory body for the UK press industry


PRIVATE OWNERSHIP -
a company owned and funded by one person or a small group of people who's content isnt effected by anybody else.

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP -
owned by share holders. content is what the public really want. have to act on what the share holders say.

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING -
broadcasting organisation financed and controlled by the public for the public and has no political influence.

REGULATORY BODY -
independent organisation established by the goverment that regulates companies and industrys.

SELF-REGULATORY BODY -
exercices a certain amount of regulatory authority of an industry or profession.

VERTICAL INTEGRATION -
process of several steps in the production and distribution of a product or service by a single company in order to increase that companies entry power in the market.