TV Industry

Television is one of the biggest sectors of the Media Industry. There is a lot of competition that employs, and the UK  industry employs over 50,000 people.

Many different types of TV pro grammes and films are broadcast. In the UK, TV is dominated by a few main broadcasters, althoughthere are also many smaller broadcasters.

The main broadcasters are:
The BBC - Public company, funded by the TV license.

from the soap, Easteneders

ITV - Private Company, 60% owned by ITV PLC,

from the ITV soap, Coronation Street

Also owned by STV Group PLC (Scotland) and UTV (Northern Ireland).

from the late night chat show, Night shift


Channel 4 - Private Company, funded by advertising.

from the Challenge show, the Jump

Channel 5 - Private Company - Owned by Northern & Shell ( Which is Owned by Richard Desmond) 

from the documentray drama, Last Days of Mary Queen of Scots


Smaller independent cable TV companies include

QVC, the Shopping Channel

the TV series, Gotham on Netflix, the Tv streaming company