Television industries and audiences

publicly owned tv channel: public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. In much of the world, funding comes from the government, especially via annual fees charged on receivers. ... In some countries, public broadcasting is run by a single organisation.

Commercial tv channel: Commercial broadcasting (also called private broadcasting) is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship.

Convergence: The definition of convergence refers to two or more things coming together, joining together or evolving into one. An example of convergence is when a crowd of people all move together into a unified group.

Watershed: An event or period making a turning point in a situation.

Segmented market: A market segment is a group of people who share one or more common characteristics, lumped together for marketing purposes.

Mainstream: the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional.

Self regulating: regulating itself without intervention from external bodies.

Franchise: an authorisation granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, for example acting as an agent for a company's products.

Channel surfing:  channel surfing (also known as channel hopping) scanning through channels to find something interesting.

PSB: PSB means 'Please see below.'

TV licence:  TV Licence covers you to:

watch and record programmes as they're being shown on TV or live on an online TV service, and. watch and download BBC programmes on iPlayer – live, catch up and on demand.

Scheduling: deciding what shows to show at what times.

Conglomerate: a company that owns several other companies that are usually different.

When was tv introduced to the UK?