- BBC - The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom . It's main aim is to enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain. The bbc.co.uk offers a varied range of subjects including news, sport, community, education, children's, and lifestyle sites, with TV programme support, radio on demand, and easy to use web search.
- ITV - The ITV portal to its television and programmes. ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK, broadcasting the most talked about television and making a major contribution to the UK’s culture, economy and communities.
- Channel 4 - Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. Though entirely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned: Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by the Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990 for this purpose and which came into operation in 1993, following the abolition of the IBA.
- Five - The UK's fifth terrestrial channel. Offers programme information, multi channel TV listings guide, news updates, competitions and games.
- British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) - is the UK's pay TV provider. BSkyB offers entertainment, news, and sports programming that reach more than 16 million homes in the UK and Ireland, including the more than 8 million subscribers to its digital direct-to-home (DTH) satellite service. Responding to the success of Freeview in the UK, BSkyB quietly introduced its own free-to-air TV service, in hopes of capturing some of that growing market. The company also has rolled out Sky Broadband, a broadband Internet access services offered free to existing customers. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. owns 38% of BSkyB, and Rupert's son James Murdoch is CEO.
- Virgin Media Television - (formerly known as Flextech) is a British television company owned entirely by the British cable company Virgin Media (previously known as NTL:Telewest) and acts as its television programme production arm. Virgin Media Television owns a number of British channels, available on Digital Terrestrial (Freeview), Satellite (Sky Digital) and Cable platforms. Virgin Media Television also owns Minotaur International, which is responsible for international sales of most programmes commissioned by Virgin Media Television
- BARB - The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) is responsible for providing estimates of the number of people watching television. This includes which channels and programmes are being watched, at what time, and the type of people who are watching at any one time. BARB provides television audience data on a minute-by-minute basis for channels received within the UK. The data is available for reporting nationally and at ITV and BBC regional level and covers all analogue and digital platforms.
- Ofcom - is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services.
- Digital Spy (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk) - is the UK's leading media and entertainment website, having grown over seven years to 80 million monthly impressions (January 2007) and a monthly audience reach of over 1.5 million unique users (Google Analytics).
- The Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre (BACC) - is a specialist body responsible for the pre-transmission examination and clearance of television advertisements. All advertisements being transmitted as a national television campaign on UK terrestrial and satellite channels should be submitted to the BACC for approval.
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