Mass Media in Great Britain

Mass Media in Great Britain

Newspapers

  There are two main types of newspapers: the «popular» newspapers and the «quality» newspapers.

The «quality» newspapers

• These newspapers are big size, with large, serious articles and more detailed information. The «quality» papers are…

The Daily Telegraph

• The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning UK English language newspaper, and distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally.

The Times

• The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register and became The Times in 1788.

The Guardian

• The Guardian is a British centre-left national daily newspaper founded in 1821.

The Observer

The Independent

• The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London.

The « popular » newspapers

• The popular newspapers (known as «tabloids») are less in size, with many pictures, big headlines and short articles. They are easy to read. They are such papers as …

Daily Mail

Daily Mirror

Daily Express

The Sun

Magazines

Hello!

• Hello (stylized as HELLO!) is a weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news and human-interest stories.

Vanity Fair

• Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983.

Radio

• Radio has a large number of listeners in the United Kingdom. There are around 600 radio stations in the country.

BBC Radio

• The service provides people the majority of musical genres, the information about local news, affairs and interests.

Commercial radio

• The commercial channels: Absolute Radio, Classic FM and talkSPORT and many others stations. The predominant format is pop music, classic music and reports about sport.

Television

• There are 5 main channels in Britain:

BBC One, ITV, BBC Two, Channel 4,

Channel 5.

BBC

• The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the public-service broadcaster of the United Kingdom, headquartered at Broadcasting House in London.
• It is the world's oldest national broadcasting organization and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees.

ITV

• ITV is a commercial TV network in the United Kingdom, launched in 1955 as Independent Television.

Channel 5 and Channel 4

• Channel 5 and Channel 4 are the British commercial television networks.

The Internet

• Nowadays it’s hard to imagine our live without the Internet. It has become an important part of every person’s life.