Imagine: And Then There was Television

THE BEGINNING OF TELEVISION: DOCUMENTARY

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-wTcZTzKNw&list=PLD511F39E7FF8C5BC&index=3

John Logie Baird- engineer, obsessed with the idea of moving picture  
John Reith- broadcasting empires stared up 1922

both took classes in engineering in Edinburgh 

First demonstration- Selfridges London 1925 

1938- Reith leaves BBC

Gerbols- German propaganda minister saw TV as advantage 

British Tv broad casts from Alexander palace 

Story captures in film: 'The Fools on the Hill'

INTRODUCTION:

'television is a specialised industry' 

TV in the 21st Century-

television industry is a fractured industry

The way in which we watch TV is totally different being able to 'binge' watch a series

Shows that used to be made to be watched weekly are now streamed and are able to download to watch at once

-all thanks to digital technology 

BBC: To inform, to educate, to entertain

HBO completely different business model, they by pass regulation therefore can show more explicit content eg Game of Thrones     

WE ARE LIVING IN A WORLD OF DIGITAL CONVERGENCE

Consumer- enjoys the product, watches the videos 

Prosumer- makes the product, eg you tubers 

-co production between channel 4 and AMC 

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA),^[1]the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,^[2] which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became a UK-wide TV channel for the first time.

The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and the single commercial broadcasting network ITV.

Channel 4 original selling point was being the intellectual arty site compared to BBC and ITV

All4

More4

Film4

E4

4seven

4Muisc

VICE

KISS

Magic 

Transnational production- Humans is made by AMC and Channel 4