Independence of the BBC is as much result of
habit and common agreement as it is the
result of it’s legal status.
Its income depends on the
licence fee which everybody
who uses a television set has
to pay.
In terms of the size of its audience,
television has long since taken over from
radio as the most significant form of
broadcasting in Britain.
For a brief period starting in the late 198s,
the government broke with the convention
of non-interference and banned the
transmission of interviewers with
members of outlawed organizations such
as the IRA on the television. The BBC's
response was to make a mockery of this
law by showing such interviews on the
screen with an actor's voice dubbed over
the moving mouth of the interviewer !
Irish Republican Army - military
organization fighting for the
independence of Ireland's first, and
in 1921 to join Northern Ireland to
the Republic of Ireland.
BBC1, ITV, BBC2 and Channel 4 - these are
the channels which all viewers in the country receive.
BBC1 and ITV broadcast popular programmes: the news,
children’s programmes, recent films, game show, soap opera
and do not show adverts.
BBC2 and Channel 4 show programmes which usually attract
much smaller audiences: TV plays and classical concerts.
Soaps opera are popular
TV serials which dramatise
their characters’ daily lives.
They storylines are funny,
but often unbelievable.
Soaps broadcast either
three or four times a week
and lasts about half an
hour. The most popular
soaps opera are:
EastEnders and
Coronation Street.
Talk Show:
’Noel‘s House
Party’.
Soap –Style drama: The Bill- It’s about
the police.
Quiz Show: Countdown
Soap-Style
drama: CasualtyI’t about medicine
and hospital.
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