Media Industries Glossary-

• Audience- This is a gathering of spectators or listeners, usually at a public performance such as a concert, but also refers to any member of the public viewing, buying or listening to any type of media product.
• Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) - A company that makes sure all advertising meets high eco advertising standards regulatory body.
• Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB) - Is a service that provides information of audience levels watching t.v although this can only be an estimated figure.
• British Board Of Film Classification (BBFC) - This is the organisation set up to legally classify age ratings on video games and DVD's ect.
• Institution- An organisation that invests chiefly in financial assets such as loans and securities rather than in tangable assets. Financial institutions include banks, trust companies and savings ect.
• New Media Industry- Describes when digital computerised or networked information and communication technologies emerged together in the later part of the 20th century.
• Narrowcasting- When a certain channel choose a certain audience through the programme they broadcast.
• National Readership Survey (NRS)- These are the people who are reading magazines and newspapers.
• Office Of Communications- The independant regulatory body for large communication companies in the UK.
• Press Complaints COmission (PCC) - The regulatory body for the UK newspapers and magazines.
• Broadcasting- Is sending information over networks from one source to another.
• Company size: Major companies- The profit wouldn't exceed 11 million, there turnover shouldn't exceed 22 million.
• Independant- A company thats solely run by itself.
• Cross Media companies- Draws viewers of TV, press to start using the web and mobiles more.
• Horizontal Integration- Horizontal intergration is when a company owns once or more building or firm.
• Private Ownership- Owned by 1 person or a small group. Editional content isn't controlled by thousands of share holders.
• Public Ownership- Owned by share holders- the directors have to answer to there share holders.
• Public Service Broadcasting- Is a broadcasting organisation made financially and controlled by the public for the public and has no political interferance.
• Regulatory Body- Is an independant organisation that was established and that regulates the activities of companies in an industry.
• Self Regulatory Body- Organisation which exercises regulatory authority over an industry or profession.
• Vertical Intergration- Process of several step in production and for distribution of a product or service by a single company or entity in order to increase the companies power in the market place.