1. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Cameron Bailey
BROADCAST
Terrestrial radio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Terrestrial radio is broadcasted over old school
‘Terrestrial (land based) radio stations still provide millions of listeners with music, talk, of FM and AM frequencies and can be
news and more. Whether you're looking for a particluar station by geography, format, or
other criteria, these directories and databases will help your search. In addition, you will
broadcasted internationally.
find links here to "airchecks" - recordings of legendary and famous radio programs and
DJs, hosts and personalities.’
http://radio.about.com/od/terrestrialradio/Terrestrial_Radio_Station_Directories_Databa
ses_and_Airchecks.htm
Digital audio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
broadcasting (DAB) Digital audio broadcasting or DAB for short is
a much improved version of older radio
‘Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used stations like terrestrial radios reason for that
in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,002 stations worldwide is they have better audio quality then the
terrestrials AM and FM frequency .
broadcast in the DAB format. The DAB standard was initiated as a European research project in the
1980s, The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation(NRK) launched the very first DAB channel in the
world on June 1, 1995 (NRK Klassisk), and the BBC and SR launched their first DAB digital radio
broadcasts in September 1995. DAB receivers have been available in many countries since the end of
the 1990s. DAB may offer more radio programmes over a specific spectrum than analogue FM radio’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting
EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
News and features FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

2. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Cameron Bailey
packages ‘A news package is usually the longest type of storytelling found on television News and features packages is a pre-recorded
newscasts. They are also found in long-form news programming, such as the CBS News of a self-contained taped that will be first
program 60 MinutesA package is a self-contained taped news report. Usually, the news introduced first by a news reporter then the
anchor will read an introduction live, then the pre-recorded story will be shown’ pre-recorded story footage will be shown.
http://media.about.com/od/mediatermsandglossary/g/News-Package.htm
Music and speech FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
based programming Radio music and speech based programing is
‘Most media groups use cross media content to advertise there radio stations or television basically a radio station that’s based on speech
shows, this helps gain more audiences and audience feedback so that they know what the and music of all sorts.
viewer thinks and how they can improve there show.
Radio 1 has an online website where you can listen to the show and give out feedback and
they also have facebook pages and the new following of twitter, where you can tweet in
and give information on what you think’
http://mbprogramming.blogspot.co.uk/
Radio drama FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
‘Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play,[1] radio theater) is a dramatized, Radio drama is broadcasting audio
purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as through the radio acoustic sounds talking
tape or CD. With no visual component, radio dramadepends on dialogue, music and sound
about different subjects depending on
effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story’
dialogue music and sound effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama
Commercials FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
‘Advertising, paid classified messages in newspapers, magazines, flyers, billboards, and Commercials or advertisements are basically
paid announcements over radio and television to sell a product, item or service. promoting and advertising products for
Radio advertisement, paid announcements over the radio to sell a product, item or service’ different companies and such. Radio

3. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Cameron Bailey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial commercials for example have magazines and
flyers, and billboards to promote them.
NON-BROADCAST
Podcasts FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
‘A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series A podcast is either an audio or video of a live
of audio radio,video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to transmission over the internet tostream it to
and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a mobile devices like an IPAD or a mobile phone or
computer or mobile device’ either you’re Pc. Also one live stream podcast have
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast gone of line you could download the pre-recorded
version of it.
Internet radio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
‘Internet radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radiowebcasting) is A internet radio is a radio station online has been
an audio service transmitted via the Internet. Music streaming on the Internet is
stream through the internet to be broadcasted .
usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through
wireless means’. The internet radio station online stream audio
unlike podcast that could stream both audio and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio video at any time they wanted which internet radio
stations cannot. Internet radio is accessible around
the world for EXAMPLE: you could be listening to
an Australian broadcasting radio station from let’s
say America.
AUDIO FORMATS
CD FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
The Compact Disc, or CD for short, is an optical disc used to store digital CD or compatible disc is an optical disc to store
data. It was originally developed to store and play back sound data within it. The cd was first developed to store
recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data and play recording only but throughout the years
(CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-R) was adapted for more data storage. A cd is a
circular object that is inserted in your personal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc computer’s CD-ROM to then will be read by your

4. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Cameron Bailey
Pc.
Music TV
FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
‘Music television is a type of television programming which focuses Music TV is ana TV shows that are focused on music
predominantly on playing music videos from bands, usually on video of all sorts of music. Such a MTV that is a
dedicated television channels broadcasting on satellite or cable. Music TVs music television show.
may host their own shows charts, award prizes. Examples
are VIVA, Scuzz, MTV, JBTV, MuchMusic, Kerrang TV, VH1, Fuse TV,
and Palladia Wigan Pier’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_television
FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Wav
‘Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due The audio file known as WAV or (Waveform Audio
to its filename extension), (also, but rarely, named, Audio for Windows[ is File Format) or (WAVE) wav are very similar to
aMicrosoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream the well know MP3 but are uncommonly used over
on PCs. It is an application of the Resource Interchange File the internet for file sharing because of their large
Format (RIFF) bitstream format’ sized files. But the Wav is commonly used for its
first generation sound of high quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV Broadcasters such as the BBC Radio that have
tapeless radio stations also use uncompressed
WAV files especially for radio stations that use
44.1kHz and a 16 Bit two channel.
MP3 FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III more commonly referred to as MP3, is A MPEG-1 OR MPEG-2 is well known as a
apatented encoding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy mp3which is compressed via an MPEG-1 format
data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio which is an encoding format for sound such as
storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for music or some kind of sound that there is. Mp3 is
the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players’. also a compressed file which is a smaller file than
Avi, Mpeg, Mp4 and others. That’s why the mp3’s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 are a lot more ‘’flexible’’ to fileshare over the
internet and are smaller sized unlike the wav files
that have better quality but are a bit bigger than
the Mp3 files.

5. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Cameron Bailey