Creative media sectors

• Television- The television industry employs 55,800 people in the UK.

Sky TV offers over 400 TV channels in the UK including standard definition, high definition and 3D.

Virgin Media offers over 200channels in the UK.

BBC is one of the most viewed channel in the UK and the top 10 programmes for the week is

• Radio - The radio industry employs over 20,000 people in the UK

There are three national commercial stations which are Classic FM, Absolute Radio and TalkSPORT broadcasting on FM or AM throughout the UK as well as via DAB, DTV and online.

 

• Film - The UK film industry directly provides jobs for almost 44,000 people.

The core UK film industry now contributes approximately £4.3 billion per year to the UK economy up by 50% since 2000, when the UK Film Council was created.
The UK film industry earns over £1.3 billion pounds in export income from film rights and film production services.
The UK has more digital cinemas than anyother European country 365 and counting.
The UK cinema market is be dominated by three major UK exhibitors, Cineworld, Odeon UCI, and Vue. In total, they account for over 70% of the total market box office receipts and 60% of screens.
There are six main companies in the film industry also known as ''The Big Six'' which are:
1.Warner Bros is the biggest player in the film industry and their own 19.7% of the US/Canadian store share.(2007 figures)

2.Paramount Pictures is the second biggest company in the film industry with 15.5% of US/Canadian store share.(2007 figures)

3.Walt Disney  now holds 15.3% of the US/Canadian store share.(2007 figures)

4.Columbia Pictures their own 12.9% of the US/Canadian store share(2007 figures)

5.Universal Studios owns  12.2% of the US/Canadian store share (2007 figures)

6.20th Century fox they make up to 11.9% of US/Canadian store shares.(2007 figures)

 

• Publishing - The publishing industry employs over 195,000 people in the UK.

There are a number of areas you can enter including:

• book publishing;
• computer game publishing;
• education publishing;
• journals and periodical publishing;
• mailing list and directory publishing;
• newspaper and magazine publishing;
• software publishing.

The media and publishing sector is going through a changing because of the technology industry its growing like Ipad's, phones, kindles...
The publishing industry generates a turnover in the region of £10.1 billion Gross value added and is one of the biggest earners and exporters for the UK creative media industries.

• Animation -  The animation industry employs over 4.700 people in the UK you will find animated content on television, in feature films, commercials, websites and computer or video games.

The animation sector can be roughly divided into four main disciplines:

• 2D Drawn or tradional
• 2D computer generated
• Stop frame
• 3D computer generated.

Most companies will contetrate on one dicipline and but some studios do all four.
One feature of the UK industry is that there are distinct and highly successful centres of production outside London- in Bristol, Manchester and Cardiff and, as result high quality training and education is avaliable in these areas
The most popular programme used to create animation is the FLASH its not simply lilmited to animation and its also for all kind of web desighs.

•   Games - The games industry employs over 7,000 people in the UK and the industry continues to grow.

The UK is Europe biggest video game market and also is the third largest in the world according to a 2012 report by Newzoo. The UK game industry made over $5.2 billion of revenues in 2012 having over 33million of gamers  having the average of 11 hours spend playing games per person a week. The organization responsible for rating video games in the UK are the British Board of Film Classification and PEGI.

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• Interactive Media - The interactive media industry employs around 43 ,000  people representing 22% of the total creative media industries, it is worth several billion pounds a year the interactive media is creation and the use of it is getting a lot bigger and the industry only continues to grow every day its becoming part of everyday activity across all sectors of industry in general.

• Photography/photo imaging - The photo imaging industry employs 44.000 people in the UK 51% of these are based in the south of England. The Photo Imaging industry is made up of 8,700 companies, two thirds (68%) of which are sole trading or freelance photographers
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The remaining companies can be broadly divided into the following categories:

Image producers(including laboratories and mini labs)
Photo retail
Picture libraries and agencies
Manufacturers
Support services (e.g. equipment hire and repair)

Across the industry as a whole 91% of companies employ five people or fewer.

• Advertising - Advertising is  the biggest diverse sector, ranging from creative agencies to sales departments, is made by about 13,000 companies and employs almost 250,000 people working in advertising is the drive to satisfy the client and its a very important player in the UK economy as well as a world leader, generating £6.2 billion every year for the UK economy.