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The National Press Despite recent reductions in readership, the British remain avid newspaper readers. Almost two-thirds of the British population read a newspaper every day, and Sunday newspapers reach an even higher proportion of the population. 11/29/2020 The Media 2

The National Press Quality newspapers Daily The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Times Sunday The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times Middle market newspapers Daily The Daily Express, The Daily Mail Sunday The Sunday Express, The Mail on Sunday Popular newspapers Daily The Daily Mirror, The People, the Daily Sport, The Daily Star, The Sunday The News of the World, The Sunday Mirror (Note quality press newspapers once referred to as broadsheets and popular press as tabloids, but the recent trend among many quality newspapers to adopt tabloid format has blurred the situation. . . ) 11/29/2020 The Media 3

The Regional Press London The Evening Standard Scotland The Scotsman, . . . Regional The Yorkshire Post, . . . 11/29/2020 The Media 4

Television BBC (created 1927, to "inform, educate and entertain" (Lord Reith, first DG)) BBC 1, BBC 2 (1964, colour in 1967), BBC 3, BBC 4 Paid for out of the licence fee. Run by a Board of Governors. Reputation for impartiality (which has often irritated government: see Falklands, IRA, . . . ) Independent Television ITV (1955), Channel 4 (1982) Paid for out of advertising Regional Welsh TV, . . . International BBC World, BBC Prime 11/29/2020 The Media 5

Television Satellite BSky. B (Rupert Murdoch) Digital Terrestrial TV BBC and Independent TV 11/29/2020 The Media 6

Radio BBC Radio 1 ("Pop" music), Radio 2 ("Light" music etc), Radio 3 (Classical music, opera, theatre, . . . ), Radio 4 (spoken word: news, current affairs, Radio 5 Sport etc. . . Digital radio Paid for out of the licence fee. Other Radio stations Capital Radio, Classic FM, . . . Paid for out of advertising Regional BBC and others Wave of "pirate" radio stations in 1960 s (especially Radio Caroline, 1964). BBC responded with Radio 1 in 1966) Independent radio since 1973 11/29/2020 The Media 7

Radio BBC World Service Reputation for fair and balanced reporting. 11/29/2020 The Media 8

Broadcasters' web sites BBC bbc. co. uk One of Britain's biggest and best web sites ITV itv. co. uk etc 11/29/2020 The Media 9

Circulation figures (abc. org. uk) March 2007 (rounded) National, daily, quality Financial Times Daily Telegraph Guardian Independent Times 11/29/2020 The Media 439, 000 911, 500 384, 000 263, 500 670, 000 10

Circulation figures (abc. org. uk) March 2007 National, daily, middle market Daily Express Daily Mail 11/29/2020 790, 000 2, 354, 000 The Media 11

Circulation figures (abc. org. uk) April 2006 National, daily, popular Daily Mirror Daily Record Daily Star The Sun 11/29/2020 1, 620, 000 418, 500 773, 000 3, 218, 000 The Media 12

Circulation figures (abc. org. uk) April 2006 National, Sunday, quality Independent on Sunday Observer Sunday Telegraph Sunday Times 11/29/2020 The Media 258, 368 503, 582 682, 585 1, 333, 684 13

Circulation figures (abc. org. uk) April 2006 National, Sunday, middle market Sunday Express Mail on Sunday 11/29/2020 The Media 790, 000 2, 303, 500 14

Circulation figures (abc. org. uk) April 2006 National, Sunday, popular Daily Star - Sunday News of the World Sunday Mirror Sunday Sport The People 11/29/2020 The Media 378, 000 3, 426, 500 1, 460, 000 100, 000 762, 000 15

Circulation figures (abc. org. uk) April 2006 National (Scotland) see http: //www. abc. org. uk 11/29/2020 The Media 16

See also http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom 11/29/2020 The Media 17

See also Web sites Times: http: //www. timesonline. co. uk/ Guardian http: //www. guardian. co. uk/ Telegraph http: //www. telegraph. co. uk/ Sun http: //www. thesun. co. uk BBC http: //www. bbc. co. uk ITV http: /www. itv. co. uk 11/29/2020 The Media 18