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The National Press Despite recent reductions in readership, the British remain avid newspaper readers. Almost two-thirds of the British population read a newspaper every day, and Sunday newspapers reach an even higher proportion of the population. 18/02/2019 The Media

The National Press Quality newspapers Daily The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Times Sunday The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times Middle market newspapers Daily The Daily Express, The Daily Mail Sunday The Sunday Express, The Mail on Sunday Popular newspapers Daily The Daily Mirror, The People, the Daily Sport, The Daily Star, The Sun Sunday The News of the World, The Sunday Mirror (Note quality press newspapers once referred to as broadsheets and popular press as tabloids, but the recent trend among many quality newspapers to adopt tabloid format has blurred the situation...) 18/02/2019 The Media

The Regional Press London The Evening Standard Scotland The Scotsman, ... Regional The Yorkshire Post, ... 18/02/2019 The Media

Television BBC (created 1927, to "inform, educate and entertain" (Lord Reith, first DG)) BBC 1, BBC 2 (1964, colour in 1967), BBC 3, BBC 4 Paid for out of the licence fee. Run by a Board of Governors. Reputation for impartiality (which has often irritated government: see Falklands, IRA, ...) Independent Television ITV (1955), Channel 4 (1982) Paid for out of advertising Regional Welsh TV, ... International BBC World, BBC Prime 18/02/2019 The Media

Television Satellite BSkyB (Rupert Murdoch) Digital Terrestrial TV BBC and Independent TV 18/02/2019 The Media

Radio BBC Radio 1 ("Pop" music), Radio 2 ("Light" music etc), Radio 3 (Classical music, opera, theatre, ...), Radio 4 (spoken word: news, current affairs, Radio 5 Sport etc ... Digital radio Paid for out of the licence fee. Other Radio stations Capital Radio, Classic FM, ... Paid for out of advertising Regional Regional BBC and others Wave of "pirate" radio stations in 1960s (especially Radio Caroline, 1964). BBC responded with Radio 1 in 1966) Independent radio since 1973 18/02/2019 The Media

Radio BBC World Service Reputation for fair and balanced reporting. 18/02/2019 The Media

Broadcasters' web sites BBC bbc.co.uk One of Britain's biggest and best web sites ITV itv.co.uk etc 18/02/2019 The Media

Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) March 2007 (rounded) National, daily, quality Financial Times 439,000 Daily Telegraph 911,500 Guardian 384,000 Independent 263,500 Times 670,000 18/02/2019 The Media

Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) March 2007 National, daily, middle market Daily Express 790,000 Daily Mail 2,354,000 18/02/2019 The Media

Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) April 2006 National, daily, popular Daily Mirror 1,620,000 Daily Record 418,500 Daily Star 773,000 The Sun 3,218,000 18/02/2019 The Media

Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) April 2006 National, Sunday, quality Independent on Sunday 258,368 Observer 503,582 Sunday Telegraph 682,585 Sunday Times 1,333,684 18/02/2019 The Media

Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) April 2006 National, Sunday, middle market Sunday Express 790,000 Mail on Sunday 2,303,500 18/02/2019 The Media

Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) April 2006 National, Sunday, popular Daily Star - Sunday 378,000 News of the World 3,426,500 Sunday Mirror 1,460,000 Sunday Sport 100,000 The People 762,000 18/02/2019 The Media

Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) April 2006 National (Scotland) see http://www.abc.org.uk 18/02/2019 The Media

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom 18/02/2019 The Media

Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ See also Web sites Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk ITV http:/www.itv.co.uk 18/02/2019 The Media