Finance

Where does funding for the following come from?

Films- Films get their funding from things such as DVD purchases and they also collect from television distribution contracts on various domestic and following TV outlets such as paperperviews. the main funding for films is from the production companies such as adverts and sponsors e.g marvel superhero movies such as spiderman homecoming will make a huge amount of money from merchandise and cinema ticket sales. Independent film companies will use many sources such as loans and crowd funding to gain funds.

TV programes on commercial channels will get their funding from things such as adverts

• Terrestrial
• satellite/PPV and cable

tv programs on commercial channels will get their funding from things such as advertisements and oversees purchases as-well as one time subscriptions will also fund these tv programs, tv programs such as sky which receives monthly payments which swell as advertisements funds them.

The BBC 

The licence fee is currently £150.50.

You need to be covered by a TV Licence to:

• watch or record live TV programmes on any channel 
• download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer – live, catch up or on demand.

This applies to any provider you use and any device, including a TV, desktop computer, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, games console, digital box or DVD/VHS recorder.

The licence fee allows the BBC's UK services to remain free of advertisements and independent of shareholder and political interest.

Newspapers are mainly funded by adverts within their paper, only a very small amount of funding comes from the sales of newspapers. Adverts within the paper is what brings money to the papers.

Websites are funded through adverts and pop ups which come up. Also some websites require subscriptions which brings in funding to the website and makes them money e.g netflix

Alternative sources of funding
Crowd funding
is an alternative funding for some media products where a large amount of people chip in a small amount of money to help fund a project.
National lottery funding 
National Lottery Awards for All (Scotland) is a quick and easy way to get Lottery grants of between £500 and £10,000. It aims to help people become actively involved in projects that benefit their local community.