C1 Radio
Thursday 5th December 2024
Research
1. BBC NATIONAL radio stations
- radio 1 - pop
- radio 2 -
- radio 3 - classical
- radio 4 -
- radio 5 - sports
- radio 6 -
- BBC Radio 4
- A Radio station run for profit
- The diverse interests of the people who live in Britain
- Language, Industry, Audience, Representation
- Historical, Political, Social and Cultural
The Radio Industry
Public Service Broadcaster - television and radio programmes that are broadcast to provide information, advice, or entertainment to the public without trying to make a profit
Commercial radio - make money by selling advertising
Community Radio - operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve
Podcast - a digital medium consisting of audio (or video) episodes that relate to a specific theme
DAB Radio - uses digital technology to distribute your favourite radio stations
RAJAR - collects information on behalf of over 300 BBC and Ofcom-licensed commercial radio stations
Licence fee - £75 to £1480 for a single channel assignment
Royal Charter - It sets out the BBC's Object, Mission and Public Purposes
Remit - to entertain and engage a broad range of young listeners with a distinctive mix of contemporary music and speech
Convergence - signal-processing paradigm that is utilised when several RF systems have to share a finite amount of resources among each other.
PSB Radio is funded by the TV licence which is paid for by the public
Commercial radio is funded by people / companies paying to advertise on the radio
Thursday 16th January 2025
The archers is the worlds longest-running radio soap opera. It began broadcast in 1951 on radio 4 in part to educate returning soldiers about . . the show, set in the fictional village of Ambleside, explores comforting tales of rural English life. some are more dramatic but most are about relationships or more realistic everyday events such as farming. Each episode is 13 minutes long and listened to by more than 5 million people. the show is broadcasted everyday at 7pm, again the next day, and in a weekly omnibus. The target audience are
Story lines:
local show
litter picking
selling house
Main characters:
Joy- noisy neighbour
Kirsty- estate agent - trying to get away from Joy
Gavin - been to prison
Mick- Santa - lives in his van
vicar
genre conventions:
audience appeals:
How does this episode "inform, educate or entertain"?:
How does the episode show the impact of social or cultural contexts:
Thursday 23rd January 2025
- Age 40s - 55+
- Gender woman
- location the country
- income high
- class middle
- sexuality straight
- religion none
mainly well educated middle class professionals
Thursday 30th January 2025
Do Now
- 6million
- older, middle-class white british women
- 7pm other than Saturdays
- Demographics
- to inform, educate & entertain
The Archers - audience and U&G
The BBC uses various platforms such as spotify
the archers is available on the website
it is played on the radio at 7pm
the podcasts are so you can catch up
the archers is promoted through social media
fans also engage with topics through twitter
Why might audiences listen to the archers? refer to U&G in your answer 12 marks
Audiences listen to the archers because theres relatable characters and story lines
Thursday 6th February 2025
Do Now
- Community , commercial , PSB
- PSB
- Commercial
- Community
- BBC 4
Exam Questions And Responses
- Ofcom regulates radio
- Commercial and PSB
- Commercial gets funding through advertising and PSB gets funding from license fees
The Archers fit into educating through telling people what its like to live on the country side. An example of this is saying how the community get together and do things such as litter picking. this educates people in the city about what its like to live in a small community/village
Audiences listen to the archers because
30/1- Good opening. Cover each of the sentence starters. T: 1. Cover another area of the U&G theory. 2.Focus on Describing why the audience might listen to the archers. 3. Give an example from the show of when this has happened. 4. Link this to how it fits with U&G theory. 1/12
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