Private Funding

·       Sponsorships - are also a common source of funding. When producing a program, sponsors will help the production house cater for much of the costs or the services requires from the program .

·       Eg a kitchen as a gift will be sponsored by a furniture company .

·       This helps TV shows being entertaining and without the need of investing the money in gifts for instance themselves.

·       Subscription fees are paid to a service provider like Melita, and Mediaset Premium .

·       This is very common with cabel and digital tv and it allows the showing of various different channels.

·       Private  tv stations are paid by the company offering these tv stations .They are paid partly by the subscriptions begin paid by the subscribers.

·       Service providers may or may not offer different packages catered to people with different needs.

·       Pay-per-view is a system where users pay only for what they watch. They would generally be subscribed to a service provider .

·       Eg skyTv through sky box office ,allows users to choose the movies  they watch , and only paying for  those movies

·       Netflix is a web pay per view system where users can pay and download movies they want to watch on their Internet Tv, xbox 360 or PS3.

·       It’s a private entity but not considered a traditional broadcaster as it operates online.It also challenges commercial broadcasting.

Television

·       Community tv is different in concept from Public Service and commercial Broadcasting

·       It is open to participation from the community it represents.

·       Like Psb its aim is to give aa good public service but not to a whole country ,but rather to a small community ,but rather to a small community 

eg :

·       Region

·       Town

·       Ethnic group

·       Foreigners living in a country

Ø Like commercial broadcasting ,it is provate ,controlled by a dew people .However community tv’s ai, is not to make profit, but rather to survive and keep doing its service

Ø In fact some of the programs they produce are done from the producers pockets.

Ø Community TV is generally Voluntary .A perfect example of community radio would be Radio BKR .All workers there are volunteers and the station caters for people from B’Kara.

o  For funding ,community TV might depend on :

o  Grants by the government or the EU

o  Sponsorship (promotional messages during programs)

o  Volunteers money –local fundraising events

o  Part of the licence fee paid (community in Germany)

o  Indirect Public Funding

Ø  In Malta Community Media relies mostly on advertising

·       Community Tv in Malta includes the previous UTV

·       Its aim was to promote and broadcast television programmes based on theological content  and Roman Catholic principles.

·       Commmunity C is most established in Denmark with 110 Community stations.

·       Corporations (INC) are companies which have separate legal entity .They can even be convicted for criminal offences.

·       America houses what Is called THE BIG SIX which are same og the biggest multinational companies in the world.

The biggest media conglomerates in the world are :

· The Walt Disney company

· Time Warner

· News corporation

· Viacom

· CBS

· GE (General Electric)