Media Institutions
Media institutions are those that can assemble quality media texts and products and circulate the texts and products widely and effectively.
Institutions are pivotal to our lives, Examples of institutions include Schools and the NHS.
Schools and healthcare are there to serve the public.
Institutions such as media companies (Newspapers) are there for the benefit of their shareholders.
Current media institutions
21st century fox
21st century fox is an american multinational mass media news corporation. It is one two companies that succeeded News Corporation which was founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1979. It was formed in June 2013 after its split from News Corporation.
Among its holdings are Fox Entertainment Group- owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio and Fox Television Network.
Also pan-Asian pay channel operator STAR TV, Italian television provider Sky Italia, and stakes in the television providers BSkyB and Sky Deutschland.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcasting statutory corporation. The BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world in terms of employees as it consists of 23,000 members of staff. CBS corporation
CBS Corporation is an American mass media corporation focused on commercial broadcasting, publishing, billboards and television production, with the majority of its operations within the United States.
It is important to research (using resources provided as well as your own) as much as you can about media institutions because this will be an exam question - you haven't mentioned anything about the big 5 American distrbution companies - or written about conglomerates, subsidiaries, sister companies etc - very thin on the ground - this was all discussed in the lesson
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