G.O.T marketing and promoting

Game Of Thrones 

How is Game Of Thrones marketed and promoted?

Its network company is HBO. HBO is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Home Box Office Inc. adapted from the novel Game Of Thrones written by George RR Martin. 

Game of thrones is exhibited on Sky Atlantic. Also shown on The video on demand system called Netflix. There are 6 series in Game Of Thrones (G.O.T). G.O.T is rated 9.5 out of 10 on IMDB and rated 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. G.O.T also has there own youtube channel with 7, 467 subscribers. You have to pay for each episode. It is about £2 each to watch an episode. 

It is shown on sky on demand and it is on sky adverts with Sky bundles which you can purchase. Sky make special deals with their customers, such as you ca get sky sports with sky atlantic for a specific amount of money. 

They sell their merchandise on a website called EMP. This includes T-shirts, mugs, games, toys and posters. They also sell on various other websites such as amazon and Ebay. This therefore makes the TV show a brand its self. 

They have their own twitter with 3.2 million followers and it's most recent trailer for series 6 with 25K retweets and 21K likes. They have various interviews on it with the cast members. The cast members are interviewed on good morning America. There are different hashtags to get many people trending and involved in the program for example #GOTpowerplays. They have accounts for fictitious characters. 

 HBO launched #TakeTheThrone, an interactive social contest that could land one lucky fan tickets to ComicCon 2014. 

BBC- British Broadcasting Cooperation

Founded in October 1922, London by a man named John Reith, 1st Baron Reith. John Charles Welsham Reith was British broadcasting executive who established the BBC. 

The BBC has been running for 94 years now. The director general of BBC is chief executive and editor in chief of the BBC. The position used to be given to the board of governors of the BBC and is now appointed by the BBC trust. The BBC trust is operationally independent of BBC management and external bodies. The chairman of the BBC trust is Rona Fairhead. 

The BBC is funded by public subscription in the form of a Licence Fee and licence payers paid £2,658 million in the years of 2002 and 2003 making the BBC the most extensive and best funded Public Service Broadcaster in the world. 

Their mission (on the BBC website) is "To enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain." and their vision is "To be the most creative organisation in the world." 

They have eight national channels including BBC one, BBC two, BBC news and CBBC. They have six regional channels including BBC one northern Ireland, BBC one Wales and BBC one Scotland. They also have 16 local channels including BBC one south east and BBC one north west. 

They partly own alibi, dave, yesterday, gold, eden, drama, good food, home, really and W with scripps  network interactive. 

BBC own 11 international channels including BBC america and BBC Canada. 

BBC own four FM radios including BBC radio 1 ( current hit music) and BBC radio two ( adult contemporary, jazz, soul and funk. BBC own seven AM and DAB and online services including BBC one extra which involves grime and hip-hop artists. They have a number of local and regional radio stations. 

BBC has there own website covering news, sports, weather, i player and radio. I player was released in 2007 and it included all of the BBC channels online with all its TV programs on it as well on demand.  BBC three use to be a TV channel but now has been removed from the TV and placed on the internet. 

SKY- 

Sky is a global satellite broadcasting, on-demand Internet streaming media, broadband and telephone services company with headquarters in London. Sky was founded in November in 1990. The compay was founded by a man called Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch is an Australian born american media proprietor.

Sky has been running for 26 years now and is one of Europe's biggest leading media company with 22 million subscribers and 30,000 employees in the year of 2014.

First started in 1990 by sky television and British satellite broadcasting. Sky become the biggest uk digital subscription television company.

the initial owner of sky was Sam Chrisholm till 1997 then gave it away to mark booth. After him was Tony Ball in 1999. in 2003 Tony Ball resigned and James Murdoch was announced to be his successor.

subsidiaries include

• SKY UK LTD
• SKY subscribers services LTD
• SKY in home services LTD
• SKY broadband LTD
• Sports internet group LTD
• British interactive broadcasting holdings LTD
• Aura sports LTD
• Aura play LTD
• Sky Ireland
• Sky Italy
• Acetrax (v.o.d)
• Amstrad ( British electronics company) 
• The cloud ( WiFi provider) 

• Sky own in the entertainment section of TV Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky living, Sky Atlantic, Sky arts, Sky 3D, Sky Pick, Challenge, Real lives and Sky betting and gaming. 
• They own in news and sport - Sky news and sky sports (1-5 plus F1) and Sky sports news HQ. 
• Movies are Action and Adventure, box office, comedy, crime & thriller, Disney, Drama & romance, Family, Greats, Premier, scifi & horror, select and showcase. 

 They also have joint ventures with nickelodeon, nick junior, comedy central, history, H2 and at the races.

Sky's ethos is "We create sustainable value by pursuing broad growth opportunities across our markets, achieving competitive advantage through our core strengths and the way we do business."

There broadcasting service broadcasts over 900 channels with many different TV programs. Theyre Sky Tv service also includes a on demand system which you have to pay for. you aslo have to pay various other channels such as Sky movies, sports and news. the on demand channel comes in different bundles. You can pay for on demand and movies or just movies. Sky offers many ways in which you can buy their offerings. They also offer Free TV's with certain bundles.

Sky also offer broadband which you can purchase with the TV service or just by its self. Again you can purchase the WiFi in different formats so Sky unlimited or Sky Fiber.

UK TV Timeline

1926- mechanical television test transmission started

1929- first official broadcast

1936- analogue terrestrial
          the bbc launches electronic television broadcasts, the bbc television service, from alexandra palace.
1938- community antenna tv launches in bristol and kingston upon hill. the Uk's first cable service.

1939 - analogue TV
world war 2 the bbc television service ceases from september 1939 to 1946

1955- Regulation
Rediffussion vision start at 625- line cable service
1955- analogue terrestrial
the UK's second channel, begins when associated rediffusion, the first ITV franchise, launches.

1964- programming
BBC two launches, in a high defenition 625- line format. as it is broadcast in a different format, some owners of TV are unable to receive it. BBC tv changes its name to BBC one

1966- the 1966 world cup broadcasts on BBC one and ITV. with 32.3 million viewers in total making of the most watched broadcast.

1967- analogue terrestrial
colour transmission begin on BBC two

1968- analogue terrestrial
the ITV emergency national service replaces the regional ITV network.

1969- the apollo 11 moon landing is broadcasted to bbc one bbc two and ITV

1974- analogue terrestrial
Ceefax and ORACLE the UK's first teletext services, launch.

1979- analogue terrestrial
almost all ITV broadcasts cease on ITV due to 10 week industrial dispute.

1982- analogue terrestrial
ITV franchise changes took effect- central independent
television west replaced television

1985- analogue terrestrial
launch of channel 4 and S4C, the UK's second and third independent channels. the ITV companies sold channels 4 airtime. Until the end of 1992. ITV and Channel 4 promoted each other until 1998.
1989- sky launches a subscription satellite service with pay per movie and events.

1990- regulation
the broadcasting act of 1990 abolishes the independent broadcasting authority and cable authority. and replaces them with the independent television commission.  

1991- analogue terrestrial
two ITV regions and channel 4 broadcast stereo sound transmission using NICAM.

1992- analogue settings
after merging with sky, BskyB ceases transmissions on BSB's satellites

1997- channel 5 launches, it is the first uk terrestrial broad cast to also launch on sky.

1998- BskyB launches skydigital, now marketed as skyTV, the UK's first digital satalite service

1999- kingston interactive television, the UK's first IPTV service, the UK's first video on demand service.

2001- BSkyB stops it analogue satalite service

2002- ITV digital stops and the launch of free view

2003- the communication act 2003 stops the independent television commission and replaces it with Ofcom.

2004- the launch of the top up TV

2006- NTL and telewest merge. the bbc and itv broadcast the 2006 fifa world cup.

2007- BBC launch bbc iplayer. a website in which you can watch BBC shows and programmes.
           ITV on demand with the same concept launches as well.

2008- freesat launches, a free satalite television service launches.

2009- virgin media closes the last analogue cable areas

2012- analogue terrestrial UHF transmissions cease in all regions.

STUNNED DRIVER FINDS 23 MIGRANTS IN HIS LORRY

A lorry load of migrants were found huddled together almost 200 miles from the main cross-Channel ports. Police including armed officers swarmed to the scene after getting a call from startled driver of the refrigerated vehicle. He had pulled into a service area off the M4 outside Chippenham, Wiltshire, and discovered the group of 23 shivering in the back.

The immigrants were given thermal blankets to keep warm as they waited to be taken to hospitals in Swindon and Southmead, Bristol. A total of 14 police vehicles and seven ambulances attended the incident yesterday afternoon. The immigrants were found in the back of a lorry owned by international shipping company Leatrans, based at Limerick City in Ireland. Their website says: “There are no limits on the type of cargo traffic we can handle.” Leatrans and Chippenham Pit Stop have been approached for comment. The ambulance service said that 23 freezing people who all appeared to be adults were found hiding in the back of the refrigerated lorry. A spokeswoman for the South West Ambulance Service said: “They were generally unwell, with injuries commensurate with being very cold.

This article was written by Britain first. Britain first is a un-accepting, inconsiderate political fascist group who want all Muslims to leave the UK. They are bigots and believe that the power of Christ is behind them, backing them up. This article may seem impartial and meerely delivering the facts but the subject matter in hand can create up roar. 

weekly news

A car bomb has exploded in the Turkish capital Ankara, killing 27 people and wounding another 75, 

The city governor's office has said. The explosion happened in Guvenpark in the Kizilay district, a key transport hub and commercial area. Several vehicles at the scene were reduced to burned-out wrecks, including at least one bus. Last month, a bomb attack on a military convoy in Ankara killed 28 people and wounded dozens more.  Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was reported to be convening an emergency security meeting. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in Istanbul, was briefed on the attack by the interior minister, Hurriyet reported. Mr Erdogan was expected to return to Ankara later.

According to initial reports, 27 of our citizens were killed in a blast caused by a bomb-laden car at Kizilay's Guvenpark. It added that 23 people had died at the scene while four others died on their way to the hospital. The BBC's Mark Lowen in Istanbul says three attacks in the Turkish capital in less than six months show the multiple security threats that Turkey now faces. The country that was the stable corner of the Middle East and the West's crucial ally in a volatile region is now at a dangerous moment, he adds. Last month's bombing was claimed by a Kurdish militant group, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK). It said on its website that the attack was in retaliation for the policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey, however, blamed a Syrian national who was a member of another Kurdish group. Last October, more than 100 people were killed in a double-suicide bombing at a Kurdish peace rally in Ankara.

I believe that this horrific event which has occured and the people behind this car bomb our behind the one earlier in the month. The people, driven to entertain the suspicion that these two bombs could be linked someway therefore maybe having a bigger reason to why they bombers are doing it.  

Weekly News

A boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Greece has sunk with the loss of 25 lives, Turkey's coast guard says. Fifteen people were rescued after the boat capsized near the Turkish resort of Didim. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says at least 321 migrants drowned trying to get to Greece between 1 January and 3 March.Reports suggest Macedonia has set new curbs on Syrian migrants trying to cross the land border from Greece.In another development, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that alliance ships would be deployed to Turkish and Greek territorial waters in the battle to defeat people smugglers.

More than 2,000 migrants, most of whom the IOM says are from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are arriving into Greece from Turkey every day hoping to travel further north through Europe. But some EU countries re-imposed internal border controls and Macedonia sharply reduced the numbers allowed to cross, leading to a build-up on the Greek side of the border. On Sunday, reports from the border said Macedonia had stopped allowing entry to anyone from areas in Iraq and Syria it did not consider to be active conflict zones. As a result, anyone from Damascus or Baghdad is not allowed to pass. Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the UN's refugee agency, called the development "concerning".

On Saturday, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, governor of a northern border region, said the number of migrants on the frontier waiting to cross north into Macedonia had grown to at least 13,000. Mr Tzitzikostas called for a state of emergency to be imposed on the border that could facilitate the delivery of aid. An emergency summit will take place between the EU and Turkey on Monday to try to seek a common approach to handling the flow of arrivals. Last week, European Council President Donald Tusk said he had been told by the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his country was ready to take back all migrants apprehended in Turkish waters.

I believe that if the UK has the power to be able to create a vote bombing Syria we should have a vote to save the lives in Syria for the crossing in the boats. Driven to entertain the suspicion that we should value their lives just as much as we value our families lives. 

Amy documentary was made 2015 July and was made during 2014 and 2015. It was directed by Asif Kapadia. Asif Kapadia also directed Senna and Uneternal City. The genre for this documentary is drama and biography. The themes of the documentary are music, music industry , soul, class relationship, drugs and industry. The documentary covers Amy's music from the beginning of her music life to her death. It contained mostly found footage of Amy"s music career.

The documentary has strong representation of the the traditional male. Amy's father could seems to be used in a negative way to represent the traditional male. Amy's father leaves her when she was very young and when he was together with Amy's mum he was having an affair. It represents the father in primitive male state when the male would constantly move on and on for his own gratifications. It represents Amy as a strong independent woman, making her way through the music industry and getting to the top but simultaneously it represents her as a victim and weak, the traditional female portrayal in the media. It represents the lower class as the scape goats for society's quams. It portrays them as always kicking up a fuss and seeking instant gratification with drugs, sex and petty crimes. Linking back to father of Amy's portrayal. Mitch Winehouse stated to the guardian newspaper "They are trying to portray me in the worst possible light". He thought it painted a terrible picture of who he was (the father). The film makers were not offended by this remark because they simply put found footage in and had an interview with him. Therefore it was father who painted a negative picture of him self.

Winehouse's debut album, Frank, was released on 20 October 2003. Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, many songs were influenced by jazz and, apart from two covers, Winehouse co-wrote every song. The album received positive reviews. The album entered the upper levels of the UK album chart in 2004 when it was nominated for BRIT Awards in the categories of "British Female Solo Artist" and "British Urban Act." It went on to achieve platinum sales. Later in 2004, she and Remi won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song, for their first single together, "Stronger Than Me." The album was also shortlisted for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. In the same year, she performed at the Glastonbury Festival – Jazz world, the V Festival and the Montreal International Jazz Festival. After the release of the album, Winehouse commented that she was "only 80 percent behind album" because Island Records had overruled her preferences for the songs and mixes to be included

Winehouse died on 23 July 2011. On the week of 26 July 2011, Frank, Back to Black and the Back to Black EP re-entered the Billboard 200 at number 57, number 9 and number 152 respectively, with the album climbing to number 4 the following week. Back to Black also topped the Billboard Digital Albums chart on the same week and was the second best-seller at iTunes. "Rehab" re-entered and topped the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart as well, selling up to 38,000 more digital downloads. As of August 2011, "Back to Black" was the best-selling album in the UK in the twenty-first century.
Her father, Mitch Winehouse, launched the Amy Winehouse Foundation with the goal of raising awareness and support for organisations that help vulnerable, young adults with problems such as addiction.