Media Industries overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Media Studies quiz

The media are controlled by a small number of large, profit-driven companies

Ownership is spread evenly across thousands of small companies

Ownership has no effect on the products that are made

Only public-service broadcasters own media in the UK

More variety, creativity and quality in media output

No measurable change in media output

Less variety, creativity and quality as owners favour safe, profitable material

A complete end to advertising-funded media

More socially diverse and democratic patterns of ownership

Removing all regulation from the media

Merging the remaining companies into a single owner

Banning advertising entirely

The tension between audiences and regulators

The tension between citizens and consumers

The tension between culture and industry

The tension between print and digital media

Merging with a competitor at the same stage of production

Owning successive stages such as production and distribution

Splitting a company into independent units

Selling shares to the public

By avoiding stars and genres entirely

By refusing to make sequels or series

By standardising output through stars, genres and serials with built-in audiences

By removing all branding from products

It has completely overturned the old cultural industries

It has been partly contained by incorporation into large, profit-oriented cultural industries

It has had no effect on the cultural industries at all

It has ended concentration of ownership for good

The marketing strategy of a media company

The total audience for a media product

The rules and restrictions a media industry must follow

The genre conventions of a media text

Between protecting the interests of citizens and serving the interests of consumers

Between two competing media genres

Between producers and their own employees

Between national and regional newspapers

Because audiences have stopped consuming media

Because all regulators have been abolished

Because regulation now applies only to print media

Because global corporations, convergent technologies and digital media can bypass national rules

The consumer interest in market competition

The citizen interest in protection from harmful or offensive material

The producer's interest in higher profit

The advertiser's interest in reach

Describing the plot of the product in detail

Listing the awards the product has won

Showing how the pursuit of profit shapes safe formats, brands and advertiser-friendly content

Ignoring who owns and funds the product

A single product that combines two genres

A large company that operates across several cultural industries at once

A regulator that oversees all media

An audience that consumes only one form of media

Connecting ownership and regulation to specific features of the product

Naming the relevant set theory

Describing a company in the abstract instead of linking it to the product

Evaluating the theory against digital change

By treating concentration and formatting as absolute, unchanging laws

By ignoring the effect of digital and global change

By describing only the most recent product released

By weighing these tendencies against digital access, public-service remits and surviving creative risk