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Newspaper ownership

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 Newspaper ownership  Marketing and distribution: The independent: The last printed edition of the Independent was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only its digital editions  The Independent was also launched as a competitor for free papers.  Originally a sister newspaper to The Independent, it cost only 20p when first published.  However, it is ow owned by JPIMedia Stuart Hall:  Preferred/Negotiated/Oppositional  Preferred Reading:  This is when audiences respond to the product he way media producer want/expect them to  Negotiated Reading:  This is when a member of the audience partly agrees with part of the product e.g. film, documentary  Oppositional reading:  this is when the audience is in complete disagreement with the product's message or setting  The Independent vs The Sun: Ind Politics, Senior  More words  Serious  Black and White  Sun Sex and Celebrity  Fewer words 'Soft news'...

Kerrang Magaszine

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 Kerrang Magazine: Ownership:   As of April 2017, Kerrang magazine, website, and music awards were sold by Capital Bauer media group to wasted talent formally Mixmag media (the publishers of dance magazine Mixmag) Bauer Media will retain the rights to the UK and Europe "to continue broadcasting Kerrang! Radio and Kerrang! TV  important to keep Kerrang in print "as the soul of the brand" moving to kerrang from a weekly to a monthly made sense as it was a better use of editorial resources  It doesn't need to be weekly because news in this area has gone digital  Kerrang "has been suffering" by putting a lot of its resources in 'a relativity low production, weekly print magazine in the UK' 1981-published as a one-off supplement in sounds newspaper initially, it was launched monthly, before going fortnightly, and in 1987, it went weekly.  Originally owned by United Newspapers  1991-sold to EMAP 2008- sold to Bauer Media 2017-sold to Wasted Talent ...

Film Audiences

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Film Audiences   Frozen: •Box Office  •Mainstream  •Budget: $150,000,000 (estimated) •Opening Weekend USA: $243,390,000   •Gross USA:$400,738,009 •Cumalative Worldwide Gross: $1,276,480,335 •Opening Weekend in UK:£4.7M •The lowest rating for Frozen came from males below the age of 18  •The highest rating from Frozen came from females ages 18-29, this is because parents would usually take their chidlrn to watch this and therefore needs to be entertaining for them too. Get Out: •Budget: $4.5 •Niche •Cumalative Worldwide Gross: $255.5 WHAT COMPANIES DOES DISNEY OWN? ABC ESPN  (80% stake) Touchstone Pictures Marvel Lucasfilm A&E  (50% equity holding with Hearst Corporation) The History Channel  (50% equity holding with Hearst Corporation) Lifetime  (50% equity holding with Hearst Corporation) Pixar Hollywood Records Vice Media  (10% stake) Core Publishing Frozen audiences  broke box office records upon realise 81% of the audience wa...