Singapore fines channel for homosexuality

A television channel in Singapore has been fined for portraying homosexuality as acceptable.


Homosexuality has become more acceptable in current society. BBC soap 'Eastenders' are currently having a homosexual storyline between Christian and Steven Beale. However homosexuality appears to have not been accepted everywhere as a Singapore channel was fined for promoting homosexual ideologies.

• http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a94610/singapore-fines-channel-for-homosexuality.html

Sheet Summaries

The Colour of Money:

• 7.9% of the UK population is made up of people from ethnic minorities, excluding the adversiting industry
• 2001 census shows that ethic minority communities have grown by over 50% since the last census in 1991, whereas the white community has seen a drop in numbers
• The British acknowledge asians as 'aspirational, hard-working economically powerful.
• In the past decade, there has also seen an enourmous growth in economic minority media. The South Asian alone has 18 dedicated TV channels, six commerical radio stations and a ever-growing number of English language print titles and websites all aimed at third generation Asians
• The UK is now truly a mulicultural country. In the same way that there is a pink pound and a grey pound, there is without doubt a brown pound.

Subcontinetal drift:

• The oriental stereotype/asian invisibilty are over, in place, social cultural and artistic "revolution" (Nitin Sawhney)
• 2nd/3rd generation, between both times -developing, no tokenism
• Cross over (music) Cornershop, Tlavin Singh (TV) 'Goodness Gracious Me', Gurinder Chadha, 'The Kumars at No.42, Life is not all ha ha he he (film) 'Anita and Me', 'Bend it like Beckham', 'East is East', 'Bride and Prejudice' (book) 'Buddha of Subrurbia', Hanit Kuriesh
• Reverse Enthocentralism
• Hybridity, (Homi Bhabha)- "Third space"
• Asians are less marginalised (less pushed aside), more mainstream

BBC3 pulls youth suicide drama

BBC Three has pulled a drama about a teenage girl who kills herself from its schedules because of the string of apparent suicides in a South Wales town

Currently on the news there has been alot of cases of deaths via stabbings, however recently there has also been a case of youth's committing suicide. Some youths say that they just want to get away from all there problems whilst others just think its cool.

In addition, Wales has the highest rate of suicides in the UK, which is maybe why the dramas location was chosen as South Wales.

• http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a89996/bbc3-pulls-youth-suicide-drama.html

The US presidential elections and a bumper celebrity news month, with the death of Heath Ledger and Britney Spears' ongoing problems, produced record traffic for the UK's newspaper websites during January.

Print texts are in decline is the issue covered here as newspaper websites are now 'producing record traffic for the UK's newspaper websites'. Newspapers have expanded onto the web. One reason for its success is that information is always up-to-date on the web, whereas a print text newspaper can only publish articles a day after. We now live in a society that is fast and we all want to recieve infomration quickly and not have to wait and this is what the web provides that a orginial newspaper cannot.

Celebrification of Britney Spears is also evident as the newspapers are all discussing 'Britney Spears ongoing problems' rather than her talents.

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/21/abcs.digitalmedia

The Hits to be renamed 4Music

The Hits will be renamed 4Music under rebranding plans from owner Channel 4.

One reason a company may re-brand and change its name is to change its image as the current image may not be selling well as it may have done in the past or maybe to give the company a new fresh name or a company has sold its naming rights.

Channel 4 have chose to change the company name from the Hits to 4Music as it will then link with all the other Channel 4 channels such as Channel4, E4, More4, Film4.

• http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a89838/the-hits-to-be-renamed-4music.html

Fans move to Five with 'Neighbours'

Just as 'Neighbours' have moved from BBC to Channel 5, so has its audience. This is turn has an effect on the BBC as they have lost audiences. The show moved because Channel 5 out-bidded the BBC and paid £300 pounds for the show.

• http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a89169/fans-move-to-five-with-neighbours.html

Orange, T-Mobile to pilot 3G mobile TV

Orange and T-Mobile will pilot a 24-channel mobile television service over their 3G network later this year, they announced today.

This shows how the media is developing and expanding by having TV on a mobile. As technology continues to advance, the media will also develop. Mostly everyone, especially teenagers and young adults have mobile phones which have various gadgets and accessories such as cameras, videos, photos, games, Mp3, internet etc. Now by bringing the TV on mobile phones, its almost as though we are carrying the media around with us everywhere we go. In current society today we are more media literate as we consume large amounts of media everyday.

The new system is being trialed in West London by the two large mobile companies who have merged together to create TDtv. Just like our TV's at home, the mobile will be able to broadcast 'Sky' and 'BBC' channels and also 10 digital radio stations.

• http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a89163/orange-t-mobile-to-pilot-3g-mobile-tv.html