Pearson Plc is a media enterprise of notable repute. In their own words, their business goals are to “to educate, entertain and inform.” And looking at the empirical evidence the company had certainly met its business goals. Any analysis of financial prospects without consideration to intangible values such as business goals is bound to be…
Multimedia Industry: Case Study of Metrodome Group PLC
Licensing, marketing and distribution of material such as motion pictures, television series, etc in digital formats is the principal business of Metrodome Group. In other words, the group’s prime markets are in the sectors of Home Entertainment, Television sales and other upcoming media technologies. Another important operation that contributes substantially to the revenue is “theatrical…
Multimedia Industry: Case Study of Electric Word PLC
Electric Word specialized in information processing business covering areas as diverse as education and sports. Some of the products it deals with include magazines, websites, newsletters, events and other custom reports. Financial results: Let us look at some of the financial indicators for the year ended 30th November 2006. The adjusted profit before taxation rose…
Multimedia Industry: Case Study of Eicom PLC
Eicom Plc is into the management and optimizing usage of digital airwaves for television broadcasting. Performance Channel and SciTech TV are the two channels that the company presently operates. Past performance and Future plans: Eicom management has announced plans to expand their business outside the UK in the near future, which is their primary market…
Multimedia Industry: Case Study of Stormnetmedia
Stormnetmedia is a leading multimedia company in the United Kingdom offering high quality CD and DVD duplication services at very competitive prices. The company has a strong customer base in London, Birmingham, Warwickshire and the Midlands. The video and DVD production are of broadcast quality. The company also provides encoding services for data protection. Other…
Defining Multimedia
Multimedia is an emerging knowledge-based industry which is creating a lot of sustainable job opportunities for workers and new market opportunities for their employers. Multimedia companies tend to be small businesses with less that a total of 10 employees. In a recent survey, it was estimated that nearly 51% of all companies in this industry…
Ideology and the Mass Media
How useful is the concept of ideology for media analysis? Discuss in relation to soap operas. Ideology as a sociological term has been interpreted in many different ways. But the following is an approximate definition of the term: Any system of beliefs, values and habits that are based on a particular political or religious school…
Teenage Drinking: The Effectiveness of Intervention Programs
Abstract: Various intervention programs have been proposed and implemented in the educational institutions of the United States to curb underage drinking. Some of them have met with success and some others not quite so. It is generally learnt that programs that cater to the specific demands of a particular risk-group have performed better than the…
The competition between The Guardian and The Independent in British Print Media Space
It is increasingly becoming a common sight – the ‘tabloid wars’ between broadsheet titles that are redefining the newspaper market. It is believed in the media industry that by producing its tabloid versions The Independent had gained a significant advantage over its competitors including the Guardian. The Guardian on the other hand is accused of…
Music Piracy and Digital Rights Management (DRM)
IT professionals require an awareness of the business, economic, legal and social issues of Computing Technology in the modern world. Before we delve into the reasons for Digital Rights Management’s disapproval let us overview the case in support of it. The case for enterprise DRM is synonymous with the case for a well-articulated, role-based technology…