The TV Industry



Audience Theorists

  • Pick N' Mix - David Gauntlet
  • Henry Jenkins - Fan Theory 
  • Industry Theory 
  • Vertical integration - Media company that owns other companies that are in different stages of production 
  • Horizontal integration - Media company owns other companies in the same industry 
  • Multi-media Integration - Company that owns on a variety of digital technologies  
  • Conglomerate - A company that owns other companies 
  • Digitally convergent technologies - Using anything computer wise to watch a media product this allows the product to reach a wider target audience, this also allows producers to take bigger risks as the audience is so vast now that someone is bound to see it and share it, cult and niche audiences are going to share it
Canal + (plus) was the company behind 'Les Revenant"
  • Launched 4th November 1984
  • French and Spanish Channel - Multi National
  • 1.4% audience 
  • HQ is in Paris
  • The owner company is Vivendi which was founded in 1853 and was abolished in 1998 and turned over 13.932 Billion Euros and have 44.1K workers.  Canal + is one of 10 of the smaller companies it owned
  • They show British TV Shows : Skins; Merlin; Wire in the Blood ; The Office and Spooks 
  • They show shows ranging from "It's Always Sunny..." to the French TV show "Mad Pigeon" 
The TV industry is self regualted 























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