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
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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 to emerge with the invention of the TV and to this day produce television programmes to millions of people around the world. Over the past six decades, television has evolved and new technology developed at rapid speed and it …show more content…

Radio was funded by the government with the intention to inform, educate and entertain the public. This was also the case in Canada and Australia, where they followed the BBC example. Once television was made more assessable to the UK public in the early 1950s, the government took that under its remit as part of the BBC. Public service broadcasters were developed at the same time such as ABC in Australia, CBC in Canada and PBS in the United States. Public service broadcasting television had been funded by the government in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom while in United States various benefactors such as affiliate stations and universities funded their …show more content…

John Whittingdale, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport says that households not owning a television will soon pay a license fee for the BBC iPlayer catch up service as he plans to change the legislation to cover users that replay programmes on the service. The BBC should earn £150m in loses from catch up users that watch BBC player on their laptop and tablets. This legislation update will be phased during 2018- 19 aimed to retrieve all loses by

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