Industry Context

Stream Summary

This first stream explores the structure, landscape and key components of the UK TV & Streaming Media sector

Modules

Ecology of Television: An introduction to the structure of the UK TV industry, its constituent parts and how they interact with each other.
Business Models: Examine the different business models underpinning the sector; exploring different players’ revenues and costs, and revealing how they interact with each other and drive the industry.
UK Public Service Broadcasters: Examine the UK’s Public Service Broadcasters; their history, their purposes and how they differ from one another.
Regulation & Policy: Analyse the role that regulation and policy play for the sector, including how the broadcast code impacts industry dynamics in the UK.
UK Indie Sector: Examine the UK’s independent production sector, understand why it is so strong, and how it operates within the wider industry.
Audience Insights: Explore how audience insights are used to inform and guide programme making and commissioning decisions, as well as driving key sources of income from advertising and subscriptions.
Sport on TV: Understand the influential role that sport plays in shaping and driving the sector.
International Overview: A review of key facts, characteristics and features across multiple countries to understand the context for television around the world.

Contributions from

Alex Cameron		Parrot Analytics
Alexia Edwards		Expectation
Amelia Brown		Fremantle UK
Andrea Scrosati		Fremantle
Andrew Georgiou		Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland
Cameron Roach		Rope Ladder Fiction
Claire Enders CBE		Enders Analysis
Dan Clays		Omnicom Media Group
David Kogan		Premier League
David Wheeldon		YouTube - EMEA

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Final Assessment (optional)

Jane Turton

Television is exciting and dynamic and it’s important to understand all facets of any business you work in. The RTS Mini MBA helps you achieve just that for the TV sector.

Kate Phillips

Television is all about the people, and having the right skills and understanding is essential to progress in the sector.

Patrick Holland

For professionals across the industry, gaining insight into the way the TV business works is hugely empowering.

Sarah Rose

I think this course is actually really important because it's very unusual to have the holistic understanding of everything from start to finish.

Simon Pitts

This course is unprecedented in its scope and depth of detail.

Stephen Lambert

Television is both simple and complicated, if you want to understand how the business really works there’s a lot to learn. A course that can give you that information more quickly than just relying on you picking up as you go along is incredibly valuable.

Tim Hincks

Television is a complex, multi-faceted business but you can absolutely learn how to be good at the business of television.

Ade Rawcliffe

Hearing from our industry leaders is gold dust!