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Institutions research week 2

Institutions

ITV and Channel 5

ITV

ITV is the largest commercial channel in the UK. annually ITV invests around £1billion in its broadcast channels and website (itv.com). Different Commissioning areas; Comedy Entertainment, Factual, Daytime, Drama, Sport, Current Affairs, Digital Channels and online.
This enables me to be relatively free and open to what type of audio-visual text I can produce as ITV broadcasts a very wide variety of different genres/shows/categories.
Due to ITV's wide variety of programmes, it seems to be more suitable to the target audience of millennials as there is more choice for the target audience to choose from. It also opens up the options for what audio-visual I would produce as ITV broadcasts a more diverse range of programmes.
Collage of programmes on ITV




This shows that ITV wants to remain a modern and therefore appealing to a younger (millennial) audience. They want to also partner this target audience with an understanding on protecting the planet and promoting sustainability. They also understand that their partnerships (how they are also funded) are also very significant as they want to ensure that they represent different groups/communities of people.
Channel 5



'I can tell you now that we DON’T want programmes that are tricksy or derivative – or that are over formatted. And we are not crazy about ‘experts’ – I think there are probably enough out there for now. 'Specialist Factual, Documentaries and Factual Entertainment'
(Ben Frow, Director of Programming)

A crime drama would not fit this channel as it favours more straight/simple types of programmes. However, a factual documentary would be favoured on this channel. This may be difficult to create due to not

being able access the topic I choose and make it non-fiction.

Picture collage of different programmes on Channel 5


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