Pixar Part 2

Disney and Pixar have had along relationship together and there have been many ups and downs. In 1991 Disney began to be the main face of their films. The organisation is made up of many people from script writers to animators to directors. Pixar gains many millions dollars per year from their films, through cinema tickets, DVDs/Bluerays and other merchandise, across the world. Their films are directed at families but as people grow up with past Disney films most people of different ages enjoy them. Now that Disney and Pixar are in collaboration the company is more popular. Pixar has won many Academy awards for their films and many of the production team has won awards as well.

Pixar part 1

Pixar is a Subsidiary company which founded in 1979 as Graphics Group which then went onto be Pixar in 1986. Pixar is based in California, America. 5 years later a short Film called The Adventures Andr and Wally B which then spun out to begin Pixar. It was groundbreaking, as it was the first CG motion picture animation, but it was very restricted. After a year of research they were able to master making films. These films were produced by Lucasfilms. Throughout the years after, many short films were made. John Ratzenburger features in many of their films. From 1995 to 2010 many long films were made such as Toy Story in 1995 to the Incredibles in 2004. Pixar and Disney fell out in 2004, this fall out lasted for some time. In 2006 Disney buys Pixar for $7.4 Billion. In 2007 Pixar's first traditional short was made. In 2010 Pixar studios in Vancouver is opened.

My Opinion on the BBC

The BBC as public service broadcaster, provides the best TV for all audiences. The BBC wants to give the public good enough entertainment for what they payed for, through the licence fee. It provides many different TV channels and radio stations, which give the public many different genres of programs, music and news. The BBC are also not aloud to be bias bias so that when the news is presented there are no one sided arguments. Syndication does not happen in the BBC unless it repeats a program on another of their channels.
Overall I believe that BBC is one of the best broadcasting organisation in the UK (which also branched out to other countries such as America). I justify the licence fee as BBC provides us with good entertainment for our money.

The BBC part 2

The licence fee is a big part of how the BBC gains money. £7.69 from the licence fee pays for the BBC television channels per month, per house hold. £2.11 is spent on BBC Radio Channels per month, per house hold. 66p is spent on BBC online, BBC Iplayer and BBC mobile per month, per house hold. The licence pay for 75% of The BBC's income.

The BBC aims to educate, inform and entertain the British public. It has diversified its channels so that it appeals to most viewers. It provides 32 different languages when it broadcasts news and information. The BBC always takes the public's requests and ideas into consideration.

BBC's many channels provide for different audiences;
BBC One:- This channel shows programs of different genres for all audiences
BBC Two:- Focuses on documentaries and sports ( appealing to older audiences )
BBC Three:- Shows Documentaries and comedy programs, also repeats of BBC One programs
BBC Four:- The shows featured on this channel are documentaries
CBBC and Cbeebies:- These channels are for children

The BBC part 1

BBC is a public service broadcaster. It is the largest broadcaster in the world. Its main aim is to entertain the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. BBC 1 was one of the first channels to be broadcasted on TV in Britain. It operates under The Royal Charter and Licence agreement. The licence fee that the public pays helps pay for the BBC. The licence fee is organised by the government. The BBC will not advertise any products or brands that are not BBC. The BBC are not aloud to advertise product other than their own as it is against the Royal Charter. This is so the audience is paying for a good channel that is not filled with unapealling content. It would also be biast to show some products and not others.

History of BBC

1922

·         BBC was formed on the 18^th October 1922

·         On the 14^th November the BBC  broadcasted from London

1923

·         The British National Opera Company’s of The Magic Flute was broadcasted on BBC

·         On the 18^th January Postmaster General  grants BBC a licence

·         On the 28^th September was when Radio Times was publicised

1924

·         King George V was shown opening the Wembley Stadium

1925-1929

·         BBC transmitted its first shortwave broadcast in 1925

·         In 1926 on the 4^th May the General strike began, the BBC broadcasted 5 news bulletins a day as there was no news papers published.  

·         In 1927 The British Broadcasting Company became The British Broadcasting Corporation, the first live sports news was broadcasted and the first live football match was broadcasted.

1930-1959

·         The Broadcasting House was opened

·         King George became the first monarch to deliver a Christmas message by radio

·         The first foreign-language radio station was broadcasted in 1938

·         In 1948 the London Olympic games was televised.

·         The coronation was shown in 1953

·         In 1958 Blue Peter was Broadcasted

1960-1999

·         In 1963 Doctor Who was first Broadcasted

·         In 1967 BBC local radio starts

·         In 1980 Children in Need appealed for the first time

·         In the 1990’s many new television channels and radio stations were introduced

2000-Onwards

·         In 2001 a bomb blew up outside the television centre

·         BBC three, BBC four and the two children’s channels were introduced

·         In 2010 the public was introduced to BBC One in HD

Introduction to Understanding the TV and film industries

For next part of the blog I will be talking about TV and film industries. I will discuss what I think of these industries and what they provide for the public.

Kerrang! My Opinion.

Kerrang in my opinion as a 16 year old is a great radio, TV station and magazine. It is a well known name acoss Britain but only is aimed at a certain age group. This is good because it's sister radio stations and Tv stations present a different kind of music for different audiences. They are very up to date with new music but they can be repetative.
The radio station does present their very own news but these are not detailed news reports and they let the news readers have their own opinions on the news. This means the viewers can relate to the presenters opinions and views!

Kerrang!

Kerrang is a cross media company which originally started as a publication. It started on the 6th of June 1981 in the UK. It focused on the New Age Rock such as AC/DC. It later launched Kerrang Australia in the 1990s.

Th Radio Station
The Kerrang radio station was founded in June 2004. The station divesified by making the music they broadcasted more main stream which didn't apeal to most readers of the publication. Despite of their change people continued to listen to the radio station as they broadcasted new undiscovered music. Viewers can request songs and enter competitions. The type of music changes as the day goes on; songs with mild swearing  would crop up and it would become heavier.


The Channel
 In 2005 the Kerrang channel was introduced to the UK. This was very popular for viewers as they could text in and request music videos. As well as many mainstream music channels it plays the count down of the most played songs but with a different genre. It sometimes censors video as they could be offencive.


Bauer Media Group and Box Television
Kerrang in owned by Bauer Media Group and Box Television. Each own 50% of Kerrang television.

News Corporation-3

News Corporation has a big influence across the world as they own many forms of media across most countries. Unfortunately News Corp only express their own opinions when it comes to political news and war. Right wing corporations like News Corp do anything in there power to promote the government and discourage anything that's not Right wing orientated. This happens alot in their Newspapers and their News Channels. They were and are still using propaganda and censorship to express their views.
In July 2011 News of the World was closed down due to the phone hacking scandal.4,332 names, 2,987  phone numbers, 30 audio tapes and 91 PIN codes were going to be presented to the public. These details belonged to the victims and victim's families of the terror attack of the 11th of September and the families of victims over seas.
In my opinion Rupert Murdoch and his Corporation shouldn't be aloud to have as much influence as they do. They are as powerful as many people in the government when it comes to the influence of the public. Not only do they update us on their opinions of the world they also have the power to get hold of the public private information which is an invasion of their privacy! I think that this multinational cross media conglomerate should be shut down or put into high dept!
A media company should not have that much power!

News Corporation-2

News Corp conducts it's activities in The US, Europe, The UK, Australia, Asia and Latin America. As a it is a cross-media conglomerate (One of the five biggest conglomerates in the world) their income is reaching highs of 982 million American Dollars per year.  

The Link bellow shows many assets of News Corp.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

The Link bellow leads you to the News Corp website.

http://www.newscorp.com/

 News Corp's history in detail:

Rupert was born in Melbourne in 1931

His Father owned a large share in News LTD

Sir Keith Murdoch ( Rupert Murdoch's father) died in 1952

Rupert was left the shares in News LTD (60% shares). This lead to the growth in his media empire.

Between the 1960s and 2001 the company began to grow, shares were bought and sold; making the company more money and loose money. Cumberland Newspaper, Sydney Daily and the Sunday Mirror was bought from FairFax Group. In 1964 The Australian was founded and The Sun was Launched ( The Sun has not been very successful). In 1968 the company bought The News of the World. In 1971 Murdoch had to change The Australian because it was becoming too liberal. Between 1977 to 1979 the company suffered some finacial difficulties. In 1979 the company bought ATI. In 1990, Murdoch owned only 7,200 shares in News Corp. itself, but he also had control of Cruden Investments Pty Ltd., which owned more than 116 million shares, about 54 percent of the total. In 2001, the Murdoch family controlled nearly 30 percent of the firm.The firm also sold its Fox Family Worldwide Inc. to Walt Disney Company for $5.3 billion in 2001.

News Corporation

 

 

 

News Corp is the second biggest media company as of 2011. The Conglomerate company owns many Newspapers such as The Sun, The New york Post and the Daily Telegraph. Fox is the biggest television station that News Corporation own. Fox Studios LA and 20th Century Fox are two of many studios that they own.It has a total assets as of June 30, 2011 of approximately $62 billion..News Corporation is a cross media conglomerate that provides 50,000 jobs for people all over the world.

 

 

News Corp History:

• Rupert Murdoch inherited his father's business in 1953.
•  Cumberland Newspapers, the Sydney Daily and the Sunday Mirror were acquired in 1960. Four years later News Corp established the first Australian NewsPaper (The Australian).
• For the next ten years News Corp established and aquired more newspapers.
• In 1988 the Fox Broadcasting company begins.
• Due to dept in 1998 Rupert sells The News Guide and 18.6% of the Fox industry to the public.

Introduction 2

I will be expressing my views/opinions on a few media industries. I will talk about what type of company they are, what they set out to do and what I think of their policies!

Introduction

This blog has been set up to show my understanding of the media sector.