Easter Homework Timeline

1950's
1952 - First monarch event broadcasted on tv - the funeral of King George V
1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, first time in history that television had more of a audience then radio.
1954 - First Daily TV news programme
- Television Act 1954
1955 - ITV starts broadcasting
1958- ITV screens the Arm Chair Theatre which represents the real working class in contrast to the BBC’s more conventional plays.

1960's
1965 - Vietnam war becomes first to be televised
1966 - England win world cup

1970's
1973: Watergate Scandal
1974: Nixon resigns as president
1977: Roots (Programme about the slavery of African Americans – Historical dramas of this type defined the ‘70s)

1980's
1980: Women Cops : Shows on BBC1 and ITV showing taking proper notice of female cops (women have been policewoman since 1949)
1981: Brixton race riots
1982: Falklands war
1987: Ordination of female priests
1989: Launch of satellite TV
1989: Fall of Berlin wall

1990's
1991: Broadcasting Standards Council (Set up to monitor sex, violence and bad language on TV and radio).
1997: News 24 launches
1997 : Queer as folk – (CH4 drama about 4 gay men living together- first to deal exclusively with gay storylines
1997- Channel 5 launches

2000
2000: Big Brother
2001: Pop idol
2002 : Launch of BBC4
2004: Start of Iraq war
: Hutton Report published: Conclusion –BBC’s claim that allegations had been ‘sexed up were unfounded. Dyke resigns

Time Warner

TV/ Cinema Institutions which time warner own:
. HBO
.Cinemax
.HBO independent productions
.HBO Cinemax
. HBO HD
.Cinemax HD
. Picture House
. New Line Cinema
. Warner Bros Entertainment, which includes Warner Bros Pictures, Warner Bros Television, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros studios, Warner Independent pictures.

Internet :
.AOL
.AOL international
.AOL music
. AOL sports
. AOL voicemail
.AOL local
.AOL call alert
. AOL broadband

Radio:
. AOL Radio

News
. Metro news .
New York
.Capital news 9,
. R news.

History

The original British Broadcasting Company was founded in 1922 by a group of telecommunications companies—Marconi, Radio Communication Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, General Electric, Western Electric, and British Thomson-Houston to broadcast experimental radio services.The Company, with John Reith as general manager, became the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927, experimental television broadcasts were started in 1932 and then became became a regular service known as the BBC Television Service in 1936.

Finance

Finance

The BBC has the largest budget of any UK broadcaster with an operating expenditure of £4.3 billion in 2007 compared to £3.8 billion for British Sky Broadcasting,£1.9 billion for ITV and £214 million in 2007 for GCap Media (the largest commercial radio broadcaster.

funding for the BBC is done through the television licence, costing £139.50 a year. licences are required to own a broadcastin TV in the UK . The cost of a television licence is set by the government and enforced by the criminal law. The revenue is collected privately and is paid into the central government Consolidated Fund, a process defined in the Communications Act 2003.

According to the BBC's 2005-2006 Annual Report, its income can be broken down as follows:

£3,100.6 m licence fees collected from householders.
£620.0 m from BBC Commercial Businesses.
£260.2 m from the World Service, of which £239.1 m is from grants (primarily funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), £15.8 m from subscriptions, and £5.3 m from other sources.
£24.2 m from other income, such as providing content to overseas broadcasters and concert ticket sales.

Texts It Produces

The BBC coperation own the following channels :

.BBC ONE

.BBC TWO

.BBC THREE

.BBC FOUR

.BBC HD

.BBC CBEEBIES

.BBC CBBC

.BBC NEWS

.BBC PARLIMENT

Below are some example of the texts it produces :

20th Century Wrap
606
64 Zoo Lane
Amazon with Bruce Parry
Andy Pandy
Animal 24:7
Animal Park
Animalia
Annapolis
Antiques Roadshow
Art of Arts TV
Arthur
Balamory
BAMZOOKi
Bargain Hunt
Basil Brush
BBC Channel Islands News
BBC Four Sessions
BBC London News
BBC News
BBC News
BBC News
BBC News
BBC News and Regional News
BBC News at Five O'Clock
BBC News at One
BBC News at Six
BBC News at Ten
BBC News at Ten
BBC Newsline
BBC Oxford News
BBC Points West
BBC Proms
BBC Wales Today
BBC Weather
BBC Weekend News
BBC World News America
Boo!
Boogie Beebies
Breakfast
Breakfast (BBC News 24)
Britain's Youngest Grannies
Brum
Clifford's Puppy Days
Diagnosis Murder
EastEnders
Fossil Detectives
Greg Dyke on Nye Bevan
Holby City
Hole in the Wall
Incredible Animal Journeys
Inseminoid
Jackanory
Open Gardens
The Late Show
Tweenies
Teletubbies

WHO OWNS THE BBC?

BBC is also known as the British Broadcasting Coperation, it is a UK based broadcasting coperation it is also the biggiest broadcastin coperation in the world.

BBC was founded by John Reith

Motto "Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation"

Key people:Sir Michael Lyons
Chairman Mark Thopmson
Director-General (Chairman of the Executive Board).

Launch date 1922 (radio)
1927 (incorporation)
1932 (television)

Outside the United Kingdom the BBC broadcasts commercially funded channels such as BBC America, BBC Canada, and BBC World News. The BBC is runned by a group of people known as the "BBC Trust" this group includes people such as :

Sir Michael Lyons (Chair)
Chitra Bharucha (Vice-Chair)
Diane Coyle
Dermot Gleeson
Alison Hastings
Patricia Hodgson
Rotha Johnston
Janet Lewis-Jones
David Liddiment
Jeremy Peat
Mehmuda Pritchard
Richard Tait