1. The Media
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2. 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.
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3. 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...)
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4. The Regional Press London The Evening Standard Scotland
The Scotsman, ...
Regional
The Yorkshire Post, ...
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5. 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
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6. Television Satellite BSkyB (Rupert Murdoch) Digital Terrestrial TV
BBC and Independent TV
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7. 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
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8. Radio BBC World Service Reputation for fair and balanced reporting.
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9. Broadcasters' web sites
BBC bbc.co.uk
One of Britain's biggest and best web sites
ITV itv.co.uk
etc
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10. 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
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11. Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) March 2007
National, daily, middle market
Daily Express 790,000
Daily Mail 2,354,000
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12. 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
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13. Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) April 2006
National, Sunday, quality
Independent on Sunday 258,368
Observer ,582
Sunday Telegraph 682,585
Sunday Times 1,333,684
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14. Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) April 2006
National, Sunday, middle market
Sunday Express 790,000
Mail on Sunday 2,303,500
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15. 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
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16. Circulation figures (abc.org.uk) April 2006
National (Scotland)
see
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17. See also
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18. Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
See also
Web sites
Times:
Guardian
Telegraph
Sun
BBC
ITV
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