1. BBC Radio 1
Introduction
BBC radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the BBC (British broadcasting
Corporation) specialising in modern and current popular music throughout the
day. BBC Radio 1 is is home to the Official chart, the Live Lounge and the world’s
greatest DJ’s including Nick Grimshaw, Scott Mills, Clara Amfo and many more.
This is funded by licence fee and general taxation as they receive a regular
government grant
The radio 1 Breakfast show with Nick Grimshaw
Followed Clara Amfo
In the afternoon this is followed by newsbeat, which offers the latest news from
around the UK and around the world.
13:00 Scott mills takes over with P.! James is back with another tantalising story
16:00 The official chart with Greg James
BBC Radio one offer a range of different types of shows including innuendo
bingo, which is for entertainment purposes as it, is a fun and quirky little game to
play on show. They also have the Live Lounge, which involves getting artists to
come in and perform live for the purposes of the radio show only.
Genres
This radio show covers a range of genres as it plays a range of different genres of
music based of what is currently in the charts, therefore it goes from the bottom
of the charts which is where most niche genres would be to the top of the charts
where more mainstream music would be found.
Audience profiles and Market share
The BBC radio 1 breakfast show has 5.4 million listeners a week. BBC Radio 1’s
audience has dropped to its lowest level for more than a decade after the station
lost a million listeners over the past year. Overall BBC 1 have a market share of
5.9%, with a total of 9,697,000 listeners per week who are aged 15+. These
listeners listen for an average of 6.3 hours during the perios of june 2017-
september 2017.
Production Processes
The BBC radio 1 live lounge is produced by James Clark, he says that Live Lounge
is a big part of what Radio 1 does with live music and that his job includes
collaborating with the music team to identify which artists are suitable to be
booked. The BBC studio manager George Thomas has said that no matter who
the act is they will receive he same level of service. He also feels with this show
the main thing to remember is that the show is an artistic exercise and not a
2. technical one. Therefore he feels it is important to be good at digesting
information such as technical specifications quickly and communicating well.
Another job is mixing the live music session. BBC Radio have said you need to
know the line up before hand or have some sort of communication especiall if it
is a band so you know what you are going to be working with. Another thing is
knowing the equipment however it is the job of the studio manager to say
whether he feels everything is sounding right during sound checks and rehersals.
For the other shows, a team of 14 people get together every Tuesday and listen
to the music and debate what should be added onto a playlist. In order for a song
to be considered it must therefore be played in the playlist meeting.
Capital FM
Capital is network of twelve independent contempa ru hit radio stations in the
United Kingdom, they are owned and ran by Global Radio as part of the Capital
radio network. Capial not only plays the hits it make and breaks them. It was the
UKs first national, commercial, hit music radio station and today reaches 7.8
million people every single week. Capital FM are funded by multiple investors
and income they receive from advertising.
Capital FM have a range of different shows and presenters such as:
Capital Breakfast with roman Kemp
Ant Payne
The bassman
Will Manning
Marvin humes
Capital weekender
The official Vodafone big top 40
Genres
Capital FM plays a range of different genres of music. Ranging from Hip hop and
RnB to Rock and House music. They oftern focus on the UK’s number 1 hits as
stated in their slogan “The Uk’s NO.1 Hit music station.”
The music featured are very generic and mainstream which allows Capital to
reach a range of listeners across multiple genres. The station was orinally made
to feature urban black music, but it says it should also appeal to young white fans
of contemporary music. The radio satation plays 2 hours a week of afro-
caribbean music which they have been doing since February 2014.
Audience profiles and Market share
The majority of Capitals audience are female at 58%. Capitals listeners are huge
fans of the world of popular music and entertainment. They are media savvy, on
trend and use capital to be the first of their mates to hear the new song or latest
trends. Of these listeners 58% of them are aged between 15-34 and make up the
main target audience of the station. Capital Birmingham now reaches 469,000
with capital Birmingham Breakfast reaching 259,000 listeners every week with a
total of 542,000 hours. Where as Capital London which is their main station
reaches 2.1 million, with listeners tuning in for a total of 10.7 million hours.
3. Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp is London’s no.1 commercial breakfast
show, reaching 1.1 million listeners every week for a total of 2.4 million hours.
Production processes
The production process of Capital FM are very similar to that of BBC Radio 1 as
they both operate in a similar way and both focus on broadcasting live music
over the radio. You will find these processes will be similar throughout the
market of radio stations.
