Industry Glossary

Audience

Is a gathering of listeners at a usually public performance or concert. Also audience can be known for listening to music, buying etc.

Advertising Standards Authority

A company that makes sure that everything meet high standards of media and in doing this making sure it is fair.

Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB)

Is a server that provides audiences figures watching programmes at the same time. This usually is an estimate.

British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)

Set up to legally classify age certification of films and video games.

Broadcasting

Sending information over a network. It comes from one source and people then it picks it up from another network.

Company Size: Major Companies (TNC)

Major companies are big organisation such as Fox news, BBC, Sky.

Company Size: Big to Medium

Big to medium sized is where a profit- network under £11.5 million profit.
Company Size: Independent

Anything that is not owned by anyone else. For example IP1.


Cross Media Companies

Draws viewers of TV and press start using the web and mobiles more often.
Horizontal Integration

Is when companies own more then one building or firm. For example a magazine could take over/buy another one.

Institution

An organisation that heavily looks on companies such as banks, large media companies, for example to make sure they are reaching guide lines.
New Media Industry

New Media that has been launched. Digital- web designs, online radio, mobile phones. New technology that has also advanced over the years.

Narrowcasting

A certain channel chooses a certain audience by what they broadcast. Aiming at a smaller audience.

National Readership Survey (NRS)

A company that measures and records how many people have bought and read magazines and newspapers.

Office of Communications (OFCOM)

The independent regulatory body for big communications are reaching guidelines to what they say they are doing.

Press Complaints Commission

Self-regulatory body for making sure that newspapers are making good journalism.

Private Ownership

Private ownership of a magazine which is owned and funded by one person or a small group.

Public Ownership

Owned by share holders who do what they want. Funding by what the public pay (TV Licence).

Public Service Broadcasting

Is a broadcasting organization made financially and controlled by the public, for other members of the public . This organisation has no political interference.

Regulatory Body

is an independent organisation that was established by the government, that regulates the activities of companies in an industry. (Ofcom)

Self-Regulatory Body

Is an organisation that exercises a certain amount of regulatory authority over an industry. Body that regulates itself.

Vertical Integration

The process in which several steps in a production and distribution of a product or service by a single company.