Insitutions

BBC- Non Commercial

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was founded on 18th October 1922. It is a UK based international public service broadcaster, headquartered at Broadcasting House in London. It is the worlds largest broadcaster by number of employees with approximately 23,000 staff. The BBC are publicly owned by HM Government. It is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its agreement with the Secretary of Stare for Culture Media and Sport. The BBC's work is funded by an annual television license fee which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations that use any type of equipment to receive live television broadcasts. This fee is set by the British Government and is agreed by Parliament. The annual cost of a colour TV license is £145.50 and a black and white TV licence is £49.

The BBC is available on several different media platforms such as Radio, Online and Television.
The different TV channels that the BBC own are: BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, Cbbc, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament and BBC Alba. A few of the programmes that BBC broadcast are: The Great British Bake Off, Hotel India, Eastenders, Bad Education, Live at the Apollo, Doctor Who and The One Show.

The Radio channels are: Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, Radio 5 Live, Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, Radio 6 Music, Asian Network, World Service, Radio Scotland, Radio Nan Gaidheal, Radio Ulster, Radio Foyle, Radio Wales, Radio Cymbru and Local Radio. Although most of these radio stations are quite commonly listened to and popular in the UK, the BBC provide international radio stations as well.

The BBC have their own official website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/) which allows audiences to access News articles, Sports, Weather, iPlayer, TV, Radio and more. The BBC also have social network pages such as Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews, Twitter- https://twitter.com/BBC, Instagram- http://instagram.com/bbcnews etc.

News Corp- Commercial

News Corporation was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City. It was founded by Rupert Murdoch and existed from 1979-2013 and the company split off in 2013 and is now established with the name News Corp. On June 28th 2012, Rupert Murdoch made an announcement that New's Corporation's publishing operations would be spun off to form a new and publicly traded company. Murdoch said that the split would ''unlock the true value of both companies and their distinct assets, enabling investors to benefit from the separate strategic opportunities resulting from more focused management of each division.''

There are several assets owned by News Corp including: Dow Jones & Company, Fox Sports Australia, Wall Street Journal, News UK, New York Post, HarperCollins, News America Marketing and Amplify Education.

The Newspapers they own are: The Sun, The Times, Sunday Times, Press Association and News Corp Australia and several international companies.

The Television channel they own is Foxtel. News Corp also own several magazines and inserts including: Big League, Country Style, Australian Good Taste, Vogue Australia, Super Food Ideas and MasterChef Magazine.

News Corp have their own website (http://newscorp.com/) and also have several social media platforms where they are available to view and spread news such as Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/newscorpaustralia) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/newscorp).