Television: Industries and Audiences

Publicly Owned TV Channel: Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. funding comes from the government, especially via annual fees charged on receivers.

Commercial TV Channel: Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship.

Convergence: Convergence is later defined more specifically as the coming together of telecommunications, computing and broadcasting into a single digital bit-stream.

Watershed: The watershed means the time when TV programmes which might be unsuitable for children can be broadcast. 

Segmented Market: Market segmentation is the research that determines how your organisation divides its customers or into smaller groups based on characteristics such as, age, income, personality traits or behaviour. 

Mainstream: Mainstream media (MSM) is a term and used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people, and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.

Franchise: A multimedia franchise is a media franchise for which instalments exist in multiple forms of media, such as books, comics, films, television series, and video games.

Channel-Surfing: Channel surfing is the practice of quickly scanning through different television channels or radio frequencies to find something interesting to watch or listen to.

PSB: Public service broadcasting (PSB) has a long and proud tradition in the UK, delivering impartial and trusted news, UK-originated programmes and distinctive content. 

TV License: A TV Licence covers you to watch or record live TV programmes on any channel, and to download or watch BBC programmes on iPlayer. This applies to any device and provider you use.

Scheduling: Broadcast programming is the practice of organising and/or ordering (scheduling) of broadcast media shows, typically radio and television, in a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or season-long schedule.

Conglomerate: A conglomerate is a group of things, especially companies, put together to form one. If you are rich enough to buy a TV network, a record company, several newspapers, and a radio station, you too can own a media conglomerate. 

When Was TV introduced to the uk?

he first major experiments with television in the UK took place in the mid-1920s with John Logie Baird's work on mechanical television. In March 1925 Baird demonstrated a basic 30 line transmission using a ventriloquist dummy named Stocky Bill in Selfridges shop window in London.

In 1965, how many channels were there in  the uk and what were they?