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I Am The Researcher For A Production Company And I Have

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I am the researcher for a production company and I have been asked to produce an individual research which will be based on analysing and investigating the TV and Film industries. I will be using different case studies to explore ownership and funding in the media industry as it will help me understand what the TV and film industry is, how it works and how ownership and funding relate to the industry. I will be using many different case studies involving several companies. A few companies I will be researching are: ‘News Corp’, ‘Viacom’, ‘Disney’ and Universal. I will also be researching on other companies such as the BBC.

The TV and film industry is made up of a list of different companies that operate differently and are funded …show more content…

Private Companies are companies that are either owned by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company 's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately-(Google).

Private companies are very similar to independent companies; the only real difference is that private companies can choose their shareholders. Private companies don’t need to meet the strict exchange commission requirements that public companies have to, like having to give a certain percentage of their income to the government.

Independent companies are companies which work on their own; they can make decision on their own and are free of influence by government or corporate interests. Independent companies are different to subsidiaries as Independent companies are not owned by any conglomerate. An advantage of an independent company is that all the money the company makes is its own profit instead of being shared with other companies. A disadvantage of an independent media company is that they often find it difficult to survive against competition from bigger companies that are owned by conglomerates as they are better known, which reduces their source of income resulting in bankruptcy.

Although if an independent media company is

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