Friday, 5 February 2010

Universal Studios (sometimes called universal city studio or Universal for short), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six major American movie studios. Its main motion picture production/distribution arm is called Universal Pictures.

Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, It is one of the oldest American Movie studios still in continuous production. In 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by its owners at the time Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBC. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a lengthy collection of TV shows through its Subsidiary NBC Universal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent film-makers works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years. The company also own a theme park license for Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, who appear at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Florida.

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

the music industry is a business  that makes and edits music for us to listen 

music started in the 1700s with sales o sheet music and then it eventually came on to vinales then it was invented by thomas Edison  in the 1890s and the radio was invented by lp in the 1950s digital was invented in the 2000s 
the thing that is unique about music is that you can illegally download it or you can get it from cds or itunes or even mp4 or video cassettes or radio 
there are some major music producing companies like magic ,heart,capital ,bbc, sony 
the british music company is different to american because we cant get any American song company on our radio companies are bigger then theres 

 there different stages  to creating music there production commssing, song writing hiring, scheduling, there is recording,editing,special effects in post production there is distribution broadcasting selling to digital providers ,advertising and marketing ,CD marketing the CD then there is exhibition -radios,digital radios ,ipods ,itunes