Define the major media industry sectors

Adam Grundy

Task 1 Understand the structure and ownership of the media sector

Video Game Industry The video game industry is a massive industry, working in the game

industry you would require coders, modellers, sound engineers and much more. Video game is one of the hardest type of content to make in the media industry. Once the game has been made, it has to be tested to see if there are any bugs, the developers would work on a way to fix this.

One major thing that the video game industry has over anything else is updates, once a film has been released its done with, no more further editing. Whereas with the gaming industry with the help from the internet, it can release a patch to fix a problem or add onto the game so the game can be never finished.

The average US House has at least one console/PC/Mobile phone

Most popular Games of all timeDue to copies sold

Film IndustryThe film industry is one of the most well known industry's around, and one of

highest grossing of all media sectors. You hear about the film industry everywhere; on the radio, on TV, in DVD’s themselves and the newspapers. It is a very popular industry and most of the film stars are looked up as idols.

Depending on whether or not the movie was a success, it would come out one or multiple sequels. To make a film you would need a writer who would write the script, the director who is in control of filming and making sure everything goes to plan, you would also require a film crew to film and a lighting crew to make sure the set has the appropriate lighting.

These are the highest grossing films of all time

Press The thing with the press is that anyone can be part of the press, if we all

report and share the news we all become part of the press. The public do everything the press do like take photos, do interviews, tell gossip. Though we do it on a much smaller scale. The industries which produce news and entertainment content for the mass media are often called "the media" (in much the same way the newspaper industry is called "the press")

Distribution of information can be shown anywhere, sites like BBC News, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and many more. Social Network has a big impact as it gives everybody a voice and they can use that voice for what every they choose.

Most popular newspapers in the UK, selling's taken from January of each year.

Radio Industry The radio industry helps promote chart releases and there is always a radio station

for anyone. Each radio station will play specific songs to a certain genre. Like BBC Radio One will always play music to a teenage audience where as BBC Radio Two will play music to a much older audience. The radio industry is a term for any companies or public service providers who are involved with the broadcast of radio stations, and with so many radio stations, there are multiple people managing them making sure they follow regulations

Normally, when people ask for the most popular radio station, they mean the one with the most amount of listeners. This will always give national or London stations as a result, and ignore smaller, local radio stations - even though, in many areas, the most popular station is a local one.

BBC Radio 2 (15.5m listeners every week) BBC Radio 1 (10.8m) BBC Radio 3 (10.5m) Heart (9.1m) Capital FM (7.3m) BBC Radio 5 live (6.3m) Classic FM (5.4m) KISS (4.6m) Smooth (4.6m) Magic (3.5m)

Television Industry The television industry is a big industry in the UK thanks to the BBC, ITV

and Sky. They have shows for any persons needs whether that be for food, for the news or just for your general entertainment. It’s a big industry but its becoming less and less popular due to the internet with their streaming websites such as netflix and hulu and that the mobile industry is bigger than before, you can get all of the media (Music, video, TV) all in one small device on the go.

Though the TV will always have viewers though, just decreasing due to technological upgrades.

These are the most popular shows in the UK, taken from viewing statistics and ratings.

Print IndustryPrinting is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template. A big industry that uses printing is the newspaper and the magazine industry. They are mass produced to bring entertainment and news the public. Each class (Like middle class) Have a specific newspaper for them but they don’t always enjoy this.

MostPopular newspapersIn the world in 2011 and below

Advertising & Marketing Industry

Advertising is a big in todays times, as there are a lot of companies trying get their products out by advertising so it means that your company would need advertise to a bigger audience, you also would need to do research if you are trying to advertise and sell your product and get it into the market. Marketing is communicating the value of a product or service to customers, for the purpose of selling that product or service. Both marketing and advertising is key to a company as advertising would get there product seen by the public and marketing would be keeping the product out there, discussing the price(s) and discussing the financial terms.