2.  Many major companies in the film and television industry own smaller but known ones.  Examples of this are Comcast own E!, NBC and Universal Pictures.  21 st Century Fox own 20 th Century Fox, fox news and Fox Sports.  Viacom own big names such as MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures.

3.  All TV channels all need funding but they all go about various ways.  Financial Aid – they receive money from the government to help them start up. Private companies get funding from owners and investors.  BBC get the funding from the TV license fee everyone in the UK has to pay. Easy Money for them. Especially when they charge £145.50 or 49 (black and white) to over 64 million people. They get between £9312000000 and £3136000000 so round about £6176000000 = 6 billion 176 thousand.  TV companies such as sky and virgin media get money from their subscriptions that customers pay to get a large range of channels plus an internet service also. It’s constant and mostly guaranteed because the customers pay monthly.  Netflix is online based movie company that charges £5.99 for a monthly subscription for a wide range of movies that have come out in the past year  PPV = Pay per view television such as Sky Box Office is when you pay a fee one time to watch something such as a live boxing match.

4.  Sponsorship – A company pays the company and the television company money in order to have their products featured in the running up to a show and after.  Product placement – companies pay money to have their products featured in the actual show.  Advertisement- Its similar to sponsorship. A company feature their product to be advertised at a certain time. Depending on the time slot, will decide the cost of having the advert shown.

5.  This is how a film get shown around in cinema all around, they decide who gets to screen the film.  Basically after a film has been created, the film studio that created it has several meetings with distributors. They then decide how many copies to make and sell to the cinemas.  They come up with prices to sell the tickets for and how long they show the film for.  The cinemas are sent a copy a couple of days before.  It gets shown and customers buy tickets.  After the film the cinema sends back the copy and pays the price for the loan.