ASSIGNMENT 6: TV CHANNEL RESEARCH

Pamela Younes

TV channels I will research Channel 4

Channel 5

ITV

All about Channel 4Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4

Channel 4 Information

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982

Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA),

The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence-funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.

With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.

Channel 4 for many years had a poorer quality signal compared to other channels

Sister Channel

4 seven

Film 4

E4 Heat

4 music

More 4

Karrang

Kiss

Magic

Smash Hits

The box

Channel 4+1

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4

Most popular TV shows on channel 4

TV Shows Why are they popular?

Holly Oaks Set out for different target audience such as different cultures

Simpson Contrivers religion, and it has been on TV for many years

Deal or no Deal Entertaining, its aimed at mothers

The big bang theory It American so everyone knows it therefore many people have heard of it, and it’s a comedy

Everybody loves Raymond

Because it’s a comedy, its in the morning so before everyone goes to school or work

Different Target Audience depending on the TV show

TV Shows Wh0 are their target audience?

Holly Oaks Many target audience such as teenagers as its based on different cultures

Simpson Mostly children, as it’s a cartoon, and Catholics as it talks a lot about religion

Deal or no Deal Women, from 30-50

The big bang theory Teenagers, can be from many different cultures

Everybody loves Raymond

Older people such 40+, also people who would be retired.

The documentaries that are in this channel

The Plane Crash Thursday 11 October – 9pm

The audience can be people

who travel a lot, or even work in

an aircraft

My Fried Chicken

shop

Monday 23 september –

9pm

The audience can be people who eat

fried chicken or people that have a

chicken shop or people who are

healthy

Terror in the skies

Saturday 21 september –

12:40am

The audience would be people

who would fly the plane or

normally travel.

Source: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/

All about channel 5Channel 4 Information

Channel 5 is a television network that broadcasts in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1997

it was the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue network to launch, after BBC One, ITV, BBC Two and Channel 4

 Richard Desmond, announced plans to invest more money in programming and return to the name Channel 5 with immediate effect, prior to an official re-launch on 14 February 2011 which was also applied to 5 News.

Channel 5 is a general entertainment channel, with internally commissioned shows such as The Gadget Show, Fifth Gear and Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_5_(UK)

Sister channels

5*

5USA

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_5_(UK)

Most Popular TV shows on Channel 5

TV Shows Why are they popular?

Big Brother Its mostly aimed at teens and teens normally watch tv, and it’s a comedy/real life issues

Home and Away Because it has many cultures, and its aimed at many people

Teleshopping Its been there for years, so its well known there fore a lot of people watch it

Neighbours Its comedy

Milkshake Aimed at children, and it starts in the morning when all the children wake up

Source: http://www.channel5.com/

Different Target Audience depending on the TV show

TV Shows Who are there target audience?

Big Brother Mainly teenagers, as the people who are involved in it are teenagers

Home and Away Aimed at everyone, as it has different cultures, and different age groups acting in it

Teleshopping Mostly the elderly who still remember teleshopping

Neighbours Aimed at the 30’s both gender

Milkshake Infants, from 1 years old to 7

Source: http://www.channel5.com/

The documentaries that are in this channel

Source: http://www.channel5.com/demand5?genre=documentary

The Man who ate himself to death

Thursday 29 August –

The audience can be Dr’s who are

doing similar to this documentary,

people who have health problems

Worlds most

pampered pets

Monday 26 August

The audience might be people who have a pet

or might buy one, or people who work in these salons

Animal Maternity

Wednesday 18

September

The audience would be people who look after

pets, or like pets, or have one, or

people who work/train pets

All about ITVITV Information

Launched in 1955 as Independent Television under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority

its legal name has been Channel 3, the number 3 having no real meaning other than to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time, namely BBC 1, BBC 2 and Channel 4

Having previously been a collective name for a network of separate regional television channels, it is now the brand name of the ITV Network operating in England

However in line with other terrestrial channels, ITV's audience share has fallen in the era of multi-channel television

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_(TV_channel)

Sister Channels Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_(TV_channel)

ITV HD

ITV2

ITV2 HD ITV4

ITV3 HD

ITV3 ITV4 HD

CITV

Most popular TV shows on ITV

TV Shows Why are they popular?

X-Factor It entertains people, and many people from different ages are part of the X-Factor

Britain’s Got Talent It also entertains peoples, famous people are part of it such as the judges and would like to watch them

Coronation Street These 2 are similar as it aims on diferent cultures has different aged groups therefore the audience would be bigger, and it has been on TV for many years so its well known

Downtown Abbey

The Jeremy Kyle Show Some people find this funny and would like to entertain themselves, or people would want to know about real life problems

Source: http://www.itv.com/tvshows/

Different Target Audience depending on the TV show

Source: http://www.itv.com/tvshows/

TV Shows Who are there Target audience?

X-Factor The X-Factor and Britain’s got talent would be similar TV shows, 14-50 years old, this is the case because people from different age groups perform in the x-factor and Britain's got talent would even take part e.g. the judges

Britain’s Got Talent

Coronation Street These two TV shows wold also be similar, would be 13-65, old people would also watch this as there are elderly In the TV shows and its also entertainment

Downtown Abbey

The Jeremy Kyle Show People who have relationship problems, they can sort there relationship out y taking advice from this show, or even mostly teenagers – 30 years old

The documentaries that are in this channel

Good bye granddad Monday 10 June 2013 – 8:30 pm

Are children who have/don’t have a

Granddad. Can learn rom it to see how people really

feel about this

The art of royalty

Friday 29 March 2013

People who love to draw, or thinking to take it as a career to see how other

draw and what they are doing with their

life.

Who killed my dad?

Thursday 21 march 2013

– 10:35p

People who have lost a dad recently to see how other

people react to this, or people who are

also stuck in tis situation

Source: http://www.itv.com/presscentre/tags/documentary

Comparing all three channels Channel 4

Channel 4 has more sister channel than channel 5

Has a wider variety of programs, this is because of the amount of sister channel there is

Channel 4 has enough money to make there own app to download on smartphones or iPad

Channel 5

Channel 5 doesn’t have that much sister channels, only has 2 compared to channel 4 and ITV

Has a limited amount of programmes not that many

Channel 5 also has there own app to downloads

ITV

ITV has more sister channel than channel 5 but not as much as channel 4

Has a wider ranger range of TV shows

Also has there own app to download

Comparing the different types of Documentaries shown in each

Channel

Channel 4

Channel 4 has a variety of documentaries, nothing in particular

Channel5

There documentary is mainly on pets, such as world pampered pets etc.

ITV

has a lot of loss in it, such as who killed my dad? Or even good bye granddad