Mass Media: Ownership and Control

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Which is NOT in the 7 corporations that Bagdikian identified?
Sega
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Bagdikian suggests that there would be how many owners if the USAs media was owned by separate individuals?
25,000
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Describe the pattern of news ownership according to Bagdikian
22 companies owned and operated 90% of the mass media controlling news
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What is horizontal integration?
bigger media companies often own a diverse range of media
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What is vertical integration?
companies are increasingly trying to control all aspects of industry in order to maximize profits
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What is diversification?
films diversify into new business areas in order to spread risk.
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What is synergy?
media companies are using their different interests to package their products in several different ways
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What is global conglomeration?
globalisation has opened up national markets and created international competition between media companies, as a result global conglomerations have a presence in many countries
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what is technical convergence?
several technologies are compressed into one media product
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What did Curran say about the concentration or ownership of British newspapers?
Not a new phenomenon for media to be owned by small group of people
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How many men owned the daily newspapers in 1937?
4
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How many individuals today now dominate the newspapers sold in the UK?
7
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What does the state have ownership over in terms of the BBC?
license fee
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Who owns the majority of commercial television?
ITV
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How many companies own The British Music Industry?
6
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Bagdikian suggests that there would be how many owners if the USAs media was owned by separate individuals?

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25,000

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Describe the pattern of news ownership according to Bagdikian

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What is horizontal integration?

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What is vertical integration?

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