UK: TV Quiz 1

TV UK  Olympics 2012 
By Skyler
The Olympics are on their way later on this year, we thought it would be a good idea to get you used to somethings from the UK , since they will be hosting The Olympics this summer. Across the mychiller websites (including this one) we will featuring something about the UK from April until after the Olympics at various times. Since Joshuaonline is  a TV and media blog why not do a quiz about British TV. Quiz one ,if you accept, is not to hard. We will do more of these if you like them.
    1. In the UK , the public broadcaster is the BBC  (British Broadcasting Corporation). It doesn't use commercials for it's money. Unlike PBS here in America, they don't do telethons for money, so how they make their money?
     a) Tax Money
     b) Funded by Donations
     c)  TV licences

2.   In America our first morning show , "Today" started back in 1952 , "Good Morning America" started in 1976, and CBS has been in Morning TV for a long time. In Britain  , they call morning TV .Breakfast programs. But what was  their first national morning program?
               a) Breakfast Time
               b) Great Britain Today
               c)  Wake up  UK
3.   Great Britain launched it's first Commercial network in September 1955, and has been broadcasting ever since.
 Named ITV  or Independent Television. It took until 1982 to launch  a second commercial network , what is the name of this network.
                a) ITV2
                b) Great Britain Network
                c) Channel 4
4. In 2011, America got it's own version of this reality  of this singing reality TV show that started in the UK.
      What was the show?
              a) The Voice
              b) The X-Factor
           
5.The Longest Running TV Soap in the UK is?
          a) Coronation Street -ITV1
          b) Eastenders            -BBC one
          c) Emmeradale           -ITV1
6. Though, The BBC Had a leg up on the Breakfast TV game , they weren't the only ITV  started their morning programms back in 1983 one month after BBC 1 . They infact were for a long time considered their own networks, but do you know the names?
              a) Good Morning , UK AM , Breakfast Live
              b) TV-AM , GMTV, Daybreak
              c) Wake Up Sleepy,  Before 9am
7.  The World's longest running Children's program is from UK it's been on TV since 1958 what's the name?
               a) Blue Peter
               b) Seasame Street
                c) Horrid Henry
8. The UK does have local TV, news and for a while they had local TV programs as well and some of the ITV stations produced shows to be networked. But how is local tv divided?
                a) by City
                b) by county
               c)  by region
9. In America we call usually Call TV hosts , anchors for news shows, and hosts for talk shows and game shows but in the UK they are called?
               a) broadcaster
               b) on air person
               c) Presenter
10. We in America know our first 24 national news network is CNN, what is the UK's.
            a) BBC NEWS Channel
            b) Sky News Channel
            c) ITV News Channel

Time's up all the answers are below.





   1. In the UK , the public broadcaster is the BBC  (British Broadcasting Corporation). It doesn't use commercials for it's money. Unlike PBS here in America, they don't do telethons for money, so how they make their money?
     a) Tax Money
     b) Funded by Donations
     c)  TV licences
  The BBC funds it's channels  BBC one, BBC two, BBC three, BBC Four, CBBC, Cbebbies , BBC News , and other BBC properities in the UK by a licence fee.  source: here



2.   In America our first morning show , "Today" started back in 1952 , "Good Morning America" started in 1976, and CBS has been in Morning TV for a long time. In Britain  , they call morning TV .Breakfast programs. But what was  their first national morning program?
               a) Breakfast Time 
               b) Great Britain Today
               c)  Wake up  UK
 "Breakfast Time"  was launched in 1983 , announced after ITV announced their plans to have first national morning programm, BBC launched their's  two weeks before. BreakFast time lasted from 1983 to 1989 , when it was Replaced by "Breakfast NEws" which ran from 1989 to 2000, when it was replaced by current show , "Breakfast".   source: here  video: BBC Breafast Time 


3.   Great Britain launched it's first Commercial network in September 1955, and has been broadcasting ever since.
 Named ITV  or Independent Television. It took until 1982 to launch  a second commercial network , what is the name of this network.
                a) ITV2
                b) Great Britain Network
                c) Channel 4 
 Though , there is an ITV 2 , which is a digital network by ITV plc. (owners of also ITV1 which used to be known as Just ITV) but that launched in 1998. Great Britain Network doesn't exist  (that we know of). Channel 4 is correct it launched in 1982 and still runs today.  source: here  video :Channel 4 launches
  

4. In 2011, America got it's own version of this reality  of this singing reality TV show that started in the UK.
      What was the show?
              a) The Voice
              b) The X-Factor


The X-Factor started in the UK in 2004, and the UK got it's own verison of "The Voice" after the US did.
 source : here 


5.The Longest Running TV Soap in the UK is?
          a) Coronation Street -ITV1 
          b) Eastenders            -BBC one
          c) Emmeradale           -ITV1
  Coronation Street launched by Granada Television (ITV for the North West of England) , in 1960 is also the oldest running soap on that's still running on TV in the world.
source: here


6. Though, The BBC Had a leg up on the Breakfast TV game , they weren't the only ITV  started their morning programms back in 1983 one month after BBC 1 . They infact were for a long time considered their own networks, but do you know the names?
              a) Sunrise , UK AM , Breakfast Live
              b) TV-AM , GMTV, Daybreak
              c) Wake Up Sleepy,  Before 9am

 TV-AM launched  as breakfast show/channel for ITV in 1983 it ran until January 1st 1993 , when replaced by GMTV (Good Morning Television) , which won the contract, it was bought up by ITVplc. (the comapany that currently runs ITV in England and Wales), in late 2009 , the morning block was renamed Daybreak in 2010.
     source(s) :  TV-AM   , GMTV , Daybreak 

7.  The World's longest running Children's program is from UK it's been on TV since 1958 what's the name?
               a) Blue Peter
               b) Seasame Street
                c) Horrid Henry

"Blue Peter" has been running since 1958 from The BBC since , which means it's seen a lot.
source: here


8. The UK does have local TV, news and for a while they had local TV programs as well and some of the ITV stations produced shows to be networked. But how is local tv divided?
                a) by City
                b) by county
               c)  by region
  BBC one and ITV 1 divide their local programming by region , which encompasses  cities , counties and  also whole UK nations , like Wales, Scotland and Ulster (Northern Ireland). Except of the city of London which get's it own.   source (s) :for BBC , for ITV


9. In America we call usually Call TV hosts , anchors for news shows, and hosts for talk shows and game shows but in the UK they are called?
               a) broadcaster
               b) on air person
               c) Presenter
If you got this right , then you are very presentable .  source: here 


10. We in America know our first 24 national news network is CNN, what is the UK's.
            a) BBC NEWS Channel
            b) Sky News Channel
            c) ITV News Channel
 All , these channels are were news channels in the United Kingdom , Sky News was the first, it launched in 1989. BBC has  news channel as well, BBC NEWS started in 1997. ITV News channel , started at ITN News channel (ITN makes ITV news) it closed down in 2005.
 source(s):  about SKY NEWS  about BBC NEWS Channel  about ITV news channel