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The media industry is a growing rapidly. This blog is about the media industry and the 9 main sectors that it consists of.

The 9 sectors in the Media Industry are;

• TV

The UK industry is dominated by the major broadcasters, plus a much larger number of less well-known broadcasters and production companies.

There are nine so-called terrestrial broadcasters, whose output is broadcast through land-based transmitters. They include the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, S4C, SMG and UTV. These companies are also called Public Service Broadcasters, with a range of obligations set out in their licences, and in the case of the BBC in its Charter.

By far the largest part of the industry is comprised of around 850 independent production companies (often referred to as the ‘indies'). They make many of the best-known programmes on television - programmes like the X Factor, Big Brother and Life on Mars. The biggest companies (the so-called super-indies) have turnovers of between £100-200m per year and employ thousands of people in the course of a year. But the typical independent production company is much smaller than this.
55,800 people in the UK work in this industy.

• Radio

Radio is undergoing a digital revolution - every bit as profound as that affecting TV - and as with all revolutions many of the eventual outcomes are uncertain.

That rapid and profound impact has been experienced differently in different sectors of the industry - creating threats as well as opportunities. But despite all the uncertainty there is a sense abroad that this is an exciting period in the development.

These operators fall into three broad categories: publicly-funded radio, commercial radio and the community and voluntary radio sector - from well-established student and hospital radio to the most recently licensed community radio stations. The industry has been growing steadily in recent years and now employs over 22,000 people (more than terrestrial TV) in a wide range of occupations. Employers range in size from the BBC and larger commercial radio groups to not-for-profit community radio stations run mainly by volunteers.
22,000 people work in the this industy in the UK.

Advertising

Increasingly, other media are overtaking many of the "traditional" media such as television, radio and newspaper because of a shift toward consumer's usage of the Internet for news and music.
Advertising has become a major mass media because of its ability to reach larger audiences for less money. Advertising also offer the unique ability to see the target audience where they are reached by the medium. Technological advances have also made it possible to control the message on advertising with much precision, enabling the messages to be relevant to the target audience at any given time and location which in turn, gets more response because of it. Advertising is being successfully employed in supermarkets. Another successful use of advertising is for movie franchises such as the Twilight Saga, which is now worth millions. There is about 17,000 people in the UK work in this industy.

• Publishing

The publishing industry produces literature, music and information, and makes it available for the general public 
The Publishing industry employs over 195,000 people, Over 51,000 people are employed in the newspaper sector, with 50,500 working in journals and magazines, 33,000 in the book industry and nearly 12,000 in other information service activities
Examples of Publishing;
Books
Journals (including electronic journals)
Newspapers
News agencies
Magazines and business media
Directories and mailing lists
Other information services

200,000 people in the UK work in this industy.

 

• Games

 Home computing began uprising in the 1980’s when consoles were made in production and sold widely across the world. This is gaining in importance and prominence. 
As games developed into the 21st century new methods of gaming and quality improved. 
This involved new company’s expanding into gaming and companies such as Nintendo expanding their products.
Sales during the 1980’s were slow and uncommon. In the present time video games such as Call Of Duty are a worldwide phenomenon, for example, within 5 days a new Call Of Duty game, Modern Warfare 3 made 775 million dollars. This even beats previous versions of the game.
Across the UK the games industry is distributed widely.  This is a lot different from most of the creative media sector where the trend for jobs is mainly set around London
10,000 people in the UK work in this indsuty.

 

 

 

Animation

 Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods. This type of presentation is usually accomplished with a camera and a projector or a computer viewing screen which can rapidly cycle through images in a sequence.
4,700 people in the UK work in this industy.

• Photo Imaging

 The Photo Imaging industry is made up of 8,700 companies, two thirds (68%) of which are sole trading or freelance photographers. The remaining companies can be broadly divided into the following categories:

• Image producers (including laboratories and minilabs)

• Photo retail

• Picture libraries and agencies

• Manufacturers

• Support services (e.g. equipment hire and repair)

Across the industry as a whole, 91% of companies employ five people or fewer.

The total Photo Imaging workforce comprises around 43,100 people. 51% of these are based in the south of England, with the largest proportion - some 38% - in London and the South East. The rest of the workforce is spread throughout Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the remaining regions of England, with the highest concentrations in the South West (13%) and the East of England (12%).

44,000 people work in this industy in the UK alone.

 

• Interactive Media

 The interactive media industry is a very fluid sector with many overlaps with, and blurred distinctions between, other sectors. 
In particular, as interactive media products become more sophisticated, their development increasingly has greater overlap with the software and IT sector. As convergence gathers pace, the boundaries between interactive media and other forms of digital media become yet more blurred - particularly as television broadcasters look to multi-platform, ‘360 degree' commissioning models. Around 34,300 people are employed in the interactive media and is worth seven million which represents about 7% of the creative media industries. 

40,000 people in the UK work in this industy.

 

• Film

The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of film-making: i.e. film production companies, film studios, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals,distribution; and actors, film directors and other film crew personnel.
27,800 people work in this industy in the UK.