Independent research television programs

Independent Research: Television Channels

By Leah Chandler

BBC 1• BBC is an abbreviation for British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC was launched in

1936 named the bbc television service. Renamed BBC TV in 1960. Then named BBC 1 in 1997.

• The target audience appeal for BBC 1 is ‘diverse audiences’ which means there is many categories of audiences they want to appeal to such as a range of ages, cultures and genders. They appeal to this by showing a verity of shows and range of dramas genres (comedy, crime, fantasy, action, historical etc...)

• BBC1 televise a range of genres such as dramas(Sherlock, Waterloo Road, Our girl), comedy (Miranda, Outnumbered, Never Mind The Buzz Cocks) , Factual (Crime Watch, Paranorma) , sport(world cup, football) , News(BBC News at six), Weather(BBC north west weather) and Religion & Ethics (songs of praise).

• The types of drama broadcasted on BBC 1 range in genre from entertainment to informative. Most of the dramas are made to appeal to the target audience by featuring subjects and characters audience can relate to. They may do that through regional accents, the job the actor is portraying and social status of the character.

• Here are some trailers for BBC 1 dramas Our Girl (www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTCjMNWKT9w ) Waterloo Road (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZmvcln0Q8 )

BBC 1 Dramas

Channel 4• Channel 4 is a TV channel set up in 1982.• The target audience appeal for channel 4 is 16-34 year olds- typically young adults- not

children!• Channel 4 is known for being provocative, covering ground and subjects that other channels

haven’t, trend setting and taking different approaches to subjects and showing different points of view.

• The public service remit for channel four says “appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society” and “demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of programmes”. (www.channel4.com/info/corporate/about/channel-4s-remit) this basically means that the content that channel 4 makes is mad to appeal to a culturally diverse society and should be original.

• Types of programs televised are a range such as documentaries(ww1 forgotten heroes, date my pornstar, Nazi mega structures), food programs (come dine with me, Ramsays kitchen nightmare, Jamie olivers kitchen), dramas (misfits, utopia, mad fat diaries), game shows (8 out of 10 cats, deal or no deal, the million pound drop) and reality shows (made in Chelsea, Beauty and the geek, Big brother).

• The dramas featured on Channel 4 range in genre that entertain the audience. Most of the dramas featured on channel 4 feature strong language.

• Here are two examples of trailers for channel 4 dramas.My Mad Fat Diary (www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tmqLvgUd-s) Run (www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0G7-O1S758)

Channel 4 dramas

ITV 1• ITV is a TV channel launched in 1955• The ITV slogan is ‘Where drama/laughter/life/news lives’• The target audience appeal for ITV 1 is a mass audience and a range of different

types of audience. An example of the types of audience they appeal to are men, socialists, people who are at home during the day(house wife's), children, adults etc. Each program has a different target audience. The program is brought to the target audience by featuring it at certain times in the day.

• Different types of programs they televise involve game shows, dramas, documentaries, news, food programs etc…

• ITV features dramas of more serious genres that are very factual for the audience to watch- educate the audience. An example of the genres ITV 1 dramas focus on is prehistoric events, crime investigation and comedy. Here are two trailers for ITV 1 Dramas

• Here are an example of drama trailers featured for ITV 1 DramasCilla (www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gfvaRJ3JY0)Downton Abbey (www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZdk7LHQ0o)

ITV 1 Dramas