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COD and Video Games

Franchising Activision also franchises the Call of Duty brand to a number of different companies. Merchandise includes action figures, comic books and card games.  
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Heart FM Radio

Different Platforms: AM (Amplitude Modulation) FM (Frequency Modulation) DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) Dedicated station's website Ownership: Heart is the UK's most popular commercial radio brand, built on a winning formula of feel good music and an all-star cast of presenters. Heart targets 25-44 year olds reaching 9.7 million listeners every week on air. Heart is a radio network of 22 stations owned by Global. 19 of Heart's 22 channels are owned by Global. The other three - Hearts Herts, North Wales and Yorkshire - are owned by Communicorp and operated under a franchise agreement. Above the line - Traditional Advertising: Billboards Website: How is sponsorship used across the webite? How can listeners access the station? Jingles: A jingle is a short slogan, verse or tune desinged to be easily remembered, and is especially used in adversting. These add to a product's overall brand identity - the elements that distinguish it for

News Papers

Ownership:   Marketing and distribution: The last printed edition of The Independent was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only its digital editions. The current guise of the newspaper is the Indy100 The I was also launched as a competitor for free papers. Originally a sister newspaper to The Independent , it cost only 20p when first published. However, it is now owned by JPIMedia . Role of IPSO: Independent Press Standards Organisation Introduced 2014, replacing the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). They regulate the content of all press (newspaper) and magazine copy.   Stuart Hall: Preferred/Negotiated/Oppositional: Preferred Reading – This is when audiences respond to the product the way media producers want/expect them to . Negotiated Reading – This is when a member of the audience partly agrees with part of the product . e.g Film, documentary, TV programme . Oppositional Reading – This is when the audience are in complet

Kerrang! Magazine - Ownership

Ownership: As of April 2017, Kerrand! Magazine, webdsite and music awards was sold by Bauer Media Group to Wasted Talent, formerly Mixmag Media. Bauer Media will retain the rights in the UK and Europe "to continue broadcasting Kerrang! radioand Kerrang! TV". Perkins said that it was important to keep Kerrang ! in print "as the soul of the brand". Moving Kerrang ! from a weekly to a monthly made sense as it was a better use of editorial resources. "It doesn’t need to be a weekly because news in this area has gone digital. If you’re in LA, Kerrang! is a really well-loved [digital] brand.” Kerrang ! "has been suffering" by putting a lot of its resources in "a relatively low-production, weekly print magazine in the UK”. History of Ownership: 1981 – published as a one-off supplement in Sounds newspaper Initially, it was launched monthly, before going fortnightly; in 1987, it went weekly. Originally owned by United Ne

Film Audiences

Frozen: Box Office Budget: $150,000,000 Opening Weekend USA: $243,390,000 24 November 2013 Gross USA: $400,738,009 World Wide: $1,276,480,335 Why do Disney films tend to appeal to adults and children alike? They appeal to each other alike because the adults would have grown up with the Disney films and it takes many years for the second releases for some movies to come out. This will make the parents want to see the follow ups of the movies. The kids like watching the movies because as they are cartoons they can be fun and something to look up to. Such as superpowers and talking toys, therefore the kids submerge in that world. This tells me that the audience had a wider men viewing audience that was willing to rate the movie. As well as this, it could show that more men went to view than women. Audiences: With $93 million opening it is the highest grossing thanks giving debut of all time. With 80% of audience composed of families Almost 20% of audiences were non