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 Wednesday 27th November 2024

Radio Research 

BBC Radio 1 : Popular and trendy music and the top chart hits of the day.  

BBC Radio 2: A popular radio station 

BBC Radio 3: Plays classical music

BBC Radio 4: Displays the news and current wold events

BBC Radio 5 LIVE:  National radio station

BBC Radio 6 Music: A digital radio

BBC Radio Cornwall: Plays news and current events in Cornwall

BBC Asian Radio network: Displays and plays national music from Asian cultures.

These examples show diversity by playing music from different cultures and county's across the UK.

 

 Wednesday 4th December 2024

Do Now:

1) BBC Radio 1 ✓

2)Commercial radio is a radio station that earns a profit.

3)A range of different music and cultures. ✓

4)LIAR is Language, Industry, Audience and representation.

5) Context is other information to back something up. (Historical, political, social and cultural)

Component One- The Radio Industry

LO: To explore the content and structure of the unit.

1)Public Service Broadcaster - A media outlet that provides broadcasts for the general public.

2)Commercial Radio - A station that generates revenue through advertisements and sponsors.

3)Community Radio - A station that is operate, owned and influenced by the communities they serve.

4)Podcast - A digital medium consisting of audio and sometimes video episodes that relate to a certain theme.

5)DAB Radio- Digital Audio Broadcast Radio (uses digital technology to distribute different stations across the world/country.

6)RAJAR- Radio Joint Audience Research, (measures radio audiences).

7) Royal Charter- The constitutional basis for the BBC .

8)Remit- a set of obligations or priorities that a channel or service must fulfil.

9) Convergence- Joining of several distinct technologies into one

Public Service- A media outlet that provides broadcasts for the general public/ funded by the tv licenses.

Commercial- Small, non-profit stations that are funded by ads , fundraising and sponsors

Community- Funded by advertisements and play different genres.

The difference between how Public Service radio and Commercial radio are funded is that, the Public Service stations are funded primarily by TV licenses , these licenses allow the British public to watch day time television and radio. Commercial radio stations are funded by advertisements, fundraising and sponsors, who pay to have their companies and products highlighted on the stations. 4

DAB allows the audience to download and catch-up on their favourite stations.

  

Wednesday 11th December 2024

Do Now:

1)An active audience is an audience that engages and responds to media messages.

2)A passive audience is an audience that accepts media messages and its deeper messages.

3)The uses and gratification theory is personal identity, information, entertainment and social interaction.

4)Fortnite engages with the audience by frequently adding fresh and trendy updates and advertisements.

Improvement Week

Wednesday 18th December 2024

Do Now:

1) A public service broadcaster is funded by the tv licenses and provides content for the public. ✓ Financed by the public for the public.

2) A commercial radio is funded on advertisements and sponsors. ✓

3)Current events and news. Mixed speech/spoken word

4)RAJAR OFCOM

5) New technological advancements and cross media convergence. ✓

Radio is still so popular because of its constantly free and accessible transportation, you can listen to whatever station you would like, any music genre or podcast. You can also listen again and rewind.

The Archers

Lo: To explore the context and background of our set products.

Soap Opera Conventions:

Female target audience/strong female characters/matriarchs.

Family plot lines/ work/relationships

Ongoing stories

Set in specific locations

Features more on dialogue

The Archers:

-Broadcasted BBC Radio 4, Spotify.

-12/13 minute episodes

-Monthly script meetings

-Recording takes place every four weeks and actors only receive their scripts a few days before.

-Actors are employed for 6 days in which they record 24 episodes.

-Very little room for error due to the two hours of studio time

The Archers is the worlds longest running radio soap opera, it began broadcast in 1951 and is set in the fictional village of Ambleside. It commonly explores comforting tales of rural English life, some stories are more dramatic but most are about  relationships or more realistic everyday lives in a farming community. The episodes are around 13 minutes long and are created only days before recording. its main target audience is middle aged women. 

Wednesday 8th January 2025

Do Now:

1)1951 ✓

2)BBC Radio 4 ✓

3)Strong female lead, dramatic storylines. ✓

4)Everyday at 7pm ✓ (not on Saturday)

5)To inform, educate and entertain. 

The Archers: Set Episode

Storylines:

Christmas play, before and after scenes

Gavin comes back from prison, sounds ill, poor living conditions, lives in a van in a pub car park, repentant

Main Characters:

Kirsty Miller

Philip Moss

Genre Conventions:

Ongoing and dramatic storylines

Different characters/accents

Audience appeals:

Dramatic

Links to the audiences own life

How does it 'inform, educate or entertain'?:

Modern slavery

Religion

Community based

How does the episode show the impact of social or cultural context?:

Gavin lives in a van

Life returning from prison