Research activity

Broadcast media- 
TV-

1. BBC 
2. Sky
3. ITV

Radio-

1. Radio 5 live news 

E media 

1. BBC News- live feeds
2. ITV News- live feeds
3. Sky news- live feeds 
4. Twitter- news provider  
5. Facebook- news provider
6. Newspaper websites- Telegraph ( no subscription required) and The Sun (subscription required) 

The business named above are the major players who have have the majority of the audiences. New corp own the majority of the newspapers and the biggest cooperation in the united kingdom owning the likes of sky sports. BBC aren't just a news provider they provide the consumers with Drama, documentaries, films and comedy shows. 

Commercial institutions aim is to make the most profit as possible and commercial institutions include cooperation such as: Guardian and telegraph. These businesses want to make money and how they do it is buy advertising in their newspapers and selling their newspapers. Broadcast institutions such a BBC is a public service and you don't need subscription to watch their shows, however with Sky sports you have to pay for subscription and on sky they advertise and on BBC they don't. However you will need a TV licence to watch the public service. BBC are Non-biased whereas channel 4 and they have there own news channel.   

Metro is a non commercial institution and they do not care about the money- their aim is too provide news for the people and have them updated on the latest affairs. These newspapers are mainly found on the trains where people travel every day and this gets them a wider range target market. some free view channels are non commercial as they do not charge the consumers and offer them news. There are also radio which cover local news which are community radios.