Television: Industry contexts - Public Service Broadcasting

 1) What is the BBC's mission statement?

BBC's mission statement is to act within public interest serving all audiences through the provision of high quality services for there public service broadcaster which promotes educational and entertaining content.. 

2) How is the BBC funded?
The BBC is funded by a TV licence fee which is currently £144.50 a year.  This fee is to watch on channels such as ITV or iPlayer. However you don't need a TV licence to watch Netflix or any other international streaming services.  

3) What must the BBC do to meet its public service broadcasting responsibilities? (Look at the five bullet points in the notes above).
They should:
-Provide information that is supposed to be balanced
-Support learning for people all ages
-To produce creative output
-To have diverse content
-To reflect the United Kingdom and it's cultures

4) Who is the regulator for TV and Radio in the UK? You can find details on this in the notes above.
The regulator for the TV and radio in the UK is by OfCOM (the Office of Communications). This program overseas all media channels codes and the produces a code of conduct that all media channels must follow or have their licence to make content removed and/or be fined heavily. This includes what can be shown before the 9pm watershed and various other quality standards.

5) How is TV and Radio regulated by Ofcom? 
It is regulated in the UK to ensure that rules are followed and inappropriate content is not broadcast to audiences.

6) How do Doctor Who and His Dark Materials help the BBC to meet the BBC's remit to inform, educate and entertain? Answer this question in at least 150 words.
Doctor who and His Dark Materials help BBC's remit inform educate and entertain the audience by the genre of series they are. This is because Doctor who promotes sci-fi content which can gain the interests of people who have interest in science making it productive. His Dark Materials promotes a fantasy genre which can help gain the popularity of audiences who have interest in philosophy. By doing this BBC is promoting educational content in both series meeting audience pleasure giving BBC a positive representation. Ultimately this helps both programs increase popularity as BBC's promotions helps gain profits for both series and increase revenue for there broadcaster. By producing different series it helps gain more audiences to stream series.

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