TV financing

TV financing

Commercial Broadcasters

ITV and channel get there financing by things such as Advertisement, syndication, phone ins and competitons and merchandising. For example X-factor on ITV have phone ins where it is a £1 a minute to answer a simple question and because millions watch it generate lots of money, also advertising can be a much higher cost because lots more people watch the programme then any other and ITV also syndicate programs like Corrination Street.

Public Service Broadcaster

The licence fee, syndication, phone ins and comepetitions and merchandising. The licence fee is £145.50(£12.13 per month) and is split into different parts like TV, Radio, Online and other costs like investment in new technolgy. They also syndicate programs like Doctor Who to BBC America whilst channel 4 is also a part public serivice broadcaster and uses the same methods of BBC to finance but instead also use advertisement.

BBC licence fee

Subscriber Broadcasters

Sky and Virgin are funded through subscriptions, advertising, syndication, selling the rights of their licencesed programmes, competions and merchandising. You can get different types of subscriptions with Sky and Virgin like choosing what subscription like whether you want the movie channels or kids channels ect. They also sell the rights of their licenesed programmes from their channels SKY 1 and other channels.