Television Terms
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- production values
- the way the cost of a programme is reflected in its 'look'
- commissioner
- the person or organsation giving the go ahead to a production
- hammocking
- putting a less popular programme betwee two popular ones
- trailers
- advertisements for programmes
- public service broadcasting
- TV paid for by the taxpayer
- broadcast flow
- the way a night's TV flows continuously
- storyboard
- breaking down a narrative into comic strip pictures
- time-shifting
- recording with sky plus, video or dvd to watch later
- idents
- the symbols used by TV companies
- pay-per-view
- paying for TV according to the programmes watched
- public-access television
- the ability of ordinary people to make TV programmes
- channel loyalty
- keeping people watching a channel
- reality TV
- TV made from real life situations
- terrestrial
- analogue TV received through an aerial
- striping and stranding
- having particular programmes on at the same time each day
- continuity announcers
- the people whose voiceovers link programmes
- ratings
- how many viewers watch a programme
- advertising revenue
- money from advertsing
- satellite
- a means of beaming TV signals from space
- scheduling
- the planning of TV programmes
- cable
- a means of transmitting TV and Internet through cable
- inheritance factor
- gaining viewers from one programme to another
- mode of address
- style of presentation to an audience
- Ofcom
- the regulatory body of the British Media
- sponsorship
- the support given by compnaies to TV programmes
- franchise
- a programme with a format which can be sold - eg Big Brother
- BARB
- Broadcasters' Audience Research Board - gather viewing figures
- regulation
- the way in which the media is controlled
- subscription
- paying for commercial TV
- cross-media ownership
- how one company may own many media outlets