C1 Radio

 Wednesday 27th November 2024

Radio Research 

1)

• BBC Radio 1: Plays popular music and chart hits during the day, and alternative genres at night 
• BBC Radio 2: A popular radio station in the UK 
• BBC Radio 3: Plays classical music
•  BBC Radio 4: Plays news and current events 
• Radio 5 Live: A national radio station 
• The BBC Asian network: A national radio station
• 1Xtra: A digital-only service 
• BBC Radio 6 Music: A digital-only service
• BBC Radio 4 Extra: A digital-only service
• BBC Radio Wales: Welsh national radio station
• BBC Essex: Essex local radio station
• BBC Radio One Dance: A station which plays dance music
• Radio Cornwall: Cornwall news and radio station 

This tells us that is the UK there is a  range of cultural diversity. And it reflects the UK accepts it.

Wednesday 4th December 2024

Do Now

1) BBC Radio 1 ✓

2) Commercial Radio is a radio which runs for profit

3) There is a wide range of cultural diversity in the UK ✓

4) LIAR is  language, industry, audience and representation

5) Context- Historical, political, social and cultural

Public server broadcaster- a media outlet that provides content for the public, rather than for commercial gain

Commercial radio- runs for profit

Community radio- independent, community owned radio

Podcast- a series of pre-recorded audio or video files that are available on the internet for on-demand listening

DAB radio- Digital, Audio Broadcast

RAJAR- Radio Joint Audience Research and is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK.

License free- a two-way radio that can be operated without a license

Royal charter- the constitutional basis for the BBC

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

Convergence- joining of several distinct technologies into one

Three types of radio:

Public server- a media outlet which provides content for the public

Community radio- a small area base and does not run for profit

commercial radio- privately owned radio which runs for profit

Public server radio is non- profit for example BBC which is funded by TV license where as commercial is funded by advertising  for example Classic FM.

2 advantages of DAB Radio- 

Live streaming, podcasts can be downloaded.

 Wednesday 18th December 2024

The Archers

Do Now

1) provides content for the public ✓independent and financed by public money

2) Advertisement ✓

3) Current events x mixed speech

4) OFCOM

5) New technology and apps like Spotify available on phones ✓

Radio is still popular because you can choose your own music depending on which station you decide to listen to. You can listen wherever you are: the car, at home, work ect. 

Soap Opera Conventions

- Targets a female audience so has strong female characters (matriarch)

- Stories on friends, family and relationships

- regular listening

- Ongoing stories

- narratives reflect real life

- specific location

- more dialogue than action

The archers

- listened to on BBC (radio 4), radio, podcasts and Spotify

- For each 13min episode there is only 2 hours of studio time allocated

- episodes are broadcasted 3-6 weeks after recording

- actors get scripts only a few days before recordings

The archers is the worlds longest running radio soap opera. It began broadcast in 1951 on BBC 4 to educate returning soldiers on farming. The show is set in the fictional village of Ambleside, explorers comforting tales of rural English life. Some stories are more dramatic but most are about relationships or realistic events such as WWII. Each episode is 13 minutes long and listened to by more than 5 million people. The show is broadcast everyday at 7pm, again the next day and each week. The target audience are matriarchs. 

Wednesday 8th January 2025

Archers set episode

Do Now

1) 1951 ✓ 

2) BBC Radio 4  ✓

3) ongoing story, Strong female characters ✓

4) Everyday at 7 ✓ except Saturday

5) BBC remit is to inform, educate and entertain

Storyline

-Town Play, Christmas (nerves before and after)

- Gavin, just got out of prison

Characters

-Gavin Moss, sounds ill (bad living), living in hostel, sounds apologetic 

- Kirsty Miller sounds upset and shocked, 

- Mick, lives in a van in a pub car park, 

-Linda, posh

Genre conventions

Ongoing storylines

different accents

Audience appeal

Dramatic

Links to own life

Pantomime

Entertain, inform, educate?

Modern Slavery

dramatic

Religion (christianity)

Community based 

Show social/cultural impacts?

Mick cant afford a house

Life coming out of prison

Modern Slavery