media case study

Technology
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4512529.stm
Switching to digital and the main reason to subscribe
http://www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk/consumer/interactivity.html
Technology involved in interactive tv
Institutions
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4402071.stm
Almost five million households have Freeview, which accounts for 31% of the digital TV market in the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4511745.stm
BSKYB's marketing and revenue
Audience
http://www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk/digital_television/digital_television_home.html
Pie chart of the numbers of subscribers to each digital tv company
Issues
http://www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk/switchover/my_tv.html
The necessities for being digital capable
Future
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4371555.stm
Personal digital radio stations. Possible TV future?
http://www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk/switchover/benefits_swtichover.html
The switchover to digital and the benefits it will have

Gaming on mobile phones as big as consoles?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4498433.stm

shows figures on rising mobile games industry compared to what happened to consoles in 1990

Downloaders help Napster fortunes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4416049.stm

Of the current 410,000 Napster subscribers in the US, some 56,000 reside at the country's universities.
caused its shares to rise by almost 15% on the New York stock exchange
The Los Angeles-based company said it added 153,000 new subscribers in the final three months of 2004, up 53% on the third quarter of last year.

Fake DVDs seized at city market

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4297293.stm

In a statement Gloucestershire County Council said the films were being offered for £3 each and would earn the trader almost £1,000.
The action would also take some £4,500 in genuine sales from legitimate shops in the area, it added.

Police in Bollywood piracy raid

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4350689.stm


Pakistan is believed to export more than 13m pirated discs every month.
In the UK, piracy of Bollywood films and music is believed to account for 70 per cent of the market.

Man jailed over counterfeit DVDs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4355763.stm

illegal dvd sales over ebay

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4408405.stm

downloading tv programs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4276255.stm

legal action

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4096013.stm

figures - The MPAA estimates physical piracy like bootleg DVDs cost Hollywood around $3.5 bn annually, it does not have figure for net-related losses

hmv-microsoft music download company

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4117417.stm
Shows how legal companies are exploiting gap in market left by illegal download sites.
Stats on market shares!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4187421.stm
stats on sales of legal downloads and prediced sales. And actions against illegal downloading