bbc (publicly owned)

The British Broadcasting Corporation, is the largest broadcasting network in the world. The BBC is a public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter Within the UK, it is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using equipment capable of recording and or receiving live television broadcasts the level of the fee is set by the UK Government and agreed by the UK Parliament. The BBC's main responsibility is to provide public service radio, television and internet broadcasting within the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

fox broadcasting company(private)

FOX Broadcasting Company, offers programming services for television studios and production companies. It offers prime-time, late-night, and sports programming services. FOX Broadcasting Company, Inc. was formerly known as FBC. The company was founded in 1986 and is based in Los Angeles, California. FOX Broadcasting Company is a subsidiary of Fox Entertainment Group.

channel 4 company

Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter to Digital on 31st March 2010, Channel 4 will become a national TV channel, after almost 28 years.
The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the UK that would break the duopoly of the Licence Fee-funded BBC's two established services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV. Channel 4 enjoys almost universal coverage in the UK and some neighbouring countries and a significant audience share, despite having seen new competition with the growth of cable, satellite and digital services.

The music industry

There is also another industry that everybody loves, the music industry. Its core business is making programmes that are designed to be heard in the home on radio. Pop music started in the 1700's with sheet music and the popular music hall songs. The gramophone was invented by Thomas Edison in the 1890's. Marconi invented the radio in the early 1900's. The sales of records became popular in the 1930's, and then the LP was invented in the 1950's. The CD was then invented in the 1980's and the radio came in the 2000's. The unique experience about radio and music is that you can listen to it any where you go like in the car or whilst you are at home. Its very accessible and you can listen to it with loudspeaker or with headphones. Its also very cheap, easy to use and digital brings a vast choice.       Music programmes also distribute music on other media platforms. You have iPods, iTunes, illegal downloads, radio, MP3, Video, CD's, MP4, Video cassette, TV channels, stereo and juke boxes. There are many major companies that distribute music. Some of them are like the BBC, MTV, Magic, Heart, Capital, Sony and Kiss 100. In Britain, the way we distribute music round the country is much more better than America because on english websites we don't have illegal download sites, but on American websites they do.   

the television industry

The television industry is the best way to get points across because whatever the time or day it is there will always be someone watching or even listening to it. In television, there are many channels to choose from. At the moment a lot of people has either got sky, sky + or virgin media. A lot of people have to get new televisions with digital being put on it. Television through the years has changed so much. When the television first came into the country in 1926, it was black and white and maybe some sound. As the years went by, television got more and more hi-tech. It then came into colour in the late 1960's. Then came three channels that didn't come in until the 1980's. Now the main things we want on our televisions to have digital but that didn't come in until the 2000’s.
The first television broadcast was a tester and it was called 'Late Night Line-Up'. With television, There have been memorable events happen on TV like: The Queens Coronation, The national TV awards, X Factor, Britain's got talent, Big brother and many more. I believe that the long lasting comedy series of TV has to be 'Only fools and horses' and i believe that they have made a spin off episode called 'Rock and Chips' showing when Del boy was younger and when Rodney was just born. There has been much memorable laughter that I have with my parents when i watch it. There have been many recent things like: Gavin and Stacey, A new version of only fools and horses, Take me out, Glee and many more. Television has made every ones lives better, especially when it comes to advertising films for the cinema, new DVDs and Cd's. The BBC is the most well known company as it’s been round for ages as it started in Alexandra Palace with the BBC tower. Granada is based on ITV.