Thursday, 25 September 2014

Institutions


News Corporation was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City. It was founded by Rupert Murdoch and existed from 1979-2013 and the company split off in 2013 and is now established with the name News Corp. On June 28th 2012, Rupert Murdoch made an announcement that New's Corporation's publishing operations would be spun off to form a new and publicly traded company. Murdoch said that the split would ''unlock the true value of both companies and their distinct assets, enabling investors to benefit from the separate strategic opportunities resulting from more focused management of each division.''News Corp own a large amount of other brand including: Dow Jones & Company, Fox Sports Australia, Wall Street Journal, News UK, New York Post, HarperCollins, News America Marketing and Amplify Education.

The Newspapers they own are; 
  • The Sun
  • The Times
  • Sunday Times
  • Press Association
  • News Corp Australia and several international companies.

The Television channel they own is Foxtel. they also own many magazines and inserts including: 
  • Big League
  • Country Style
  • Australian Good Taste
  • Vogue Australia
  • Super Food Ideas
  • MasterChef Magazine.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a UK based international public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London. It is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to receive live television broadcasts.

BBC also broadcast many channel such as;BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, Cbbc, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament and BBC Alba

Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London, is the official headquarters of the BBC. It is home to six of the ten BBC national radio networks, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1xtra, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Radio 4 Extra.

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