thypes of organsatons

 

A1: Types of Organisations

1) Public service broadcasters (state owned or commercial broadcasters)

2) Private Companies

3) Regulatory Organisations  

 

A type of state owned is the BBC it is one of the oldest TV stations it is funded by the government thou tax and TV licence. The BBC show manly / mostly family friendly content and educational content and news. A comical broadcaster is one own by a shareholders and or a single person an example of this type of broadcaster would be ITV they are funded by companies and donations and show whatever they want and the news.    

 

Regulatory organisations

The Office of Communications commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, Telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. Ofcom has wide-ranging powers across the television, radio, telecoms and postal sectors. It has a statutory duty to represent the interests of citizens and consumers by promoting competition and protecting the public from harmful or offensive material. Some of the main areas Ofcom presides over are licensing, research, codes and policies, complaints, competition and protecting the radio spectrum from abuse (e.g. pirate radio stations).The regulator was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002 and received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003.