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.

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