1. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
BROADCAST
Terrestrial radio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
‘The wireless transmission through space of electromagnetic The wireless waves have a frequency range of 10
waves in the approximate frequency range from 10 kilohertz kilohertz to 300,000 megahertz’.
to 300,000 megahertz’.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Terrestrial+radio
Digital audio broadcasting (DAB) FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
a digital signal is transmitted on an assigned
‘Digital audio broadcasting (DAB), also known as digital channel in the AM or FM frequency rangeand has
radio and high-definition radio, is audio broadcasting in become common throughout Europe’.
which analog audio is converted into a digital signal and .
transmitted on an assigned channel in the AM or (more
usually) FM frequency range. DAB is said to offer
compact disc (CD)- quality audio on the FM (frequency
modulation) broadcast band and to offer FM-quality
audio on the AM (amplitude modulation) broadcast
band. The technology was first deployed in the United
Kingdom in 1995, and has become common throughout
Europe’.
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/digital-
audio-broadcasting

2. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
News and features packages FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
‘Feature Packages are stories grouped by theme and Feature packages are based on something that the
newspaper or radio want for example BBc use Reporters to
transmitted to feature desk editors at national daily and weekly go out and find the stories then the information gets filterd
publications and broadcast outlets. Editors rely on these stories back to BBc.
to fill special sections and reports throughout the year, such as
Back to School, Travel and Personal Finance’.
http://www2.prnewswire.com/features/main.shtml
Music and speech based programming FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Music based programming is more music based
with less speech for example Radio 1 were as
The BBC runs ten national radio stations offering distinctive, high speech radio is more speech than mucic for
example Radio 4.
quality music and speech programming to audiences across the
UK. They are available via analogue and digital radio, digital
television and online.Additionally, there are stations for audiences
in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and local radio stations
throughout England.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whatwedo/radio/

3. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Radio drama FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Radio drama is mostly speech based with
‘Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play,[1] radio interviews and reports.
theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast
on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With
no visual component, radio dramadepends on dialogue, music
and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and
story’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama
Commercials FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Commercials also known as advertisements is were a
‘Advertising, paid classified messages in newspapers, magazines, company pays someone or a group of people to advertise
their company.
flyers, billboards, and paid announcements over radio and
television to sell a product, item or service.
Radio advertisement, paid announcements over the radio to sell
a product, item or service’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial

4. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
NON-BROADCAST
Podcasts FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Podcast are usually dialog through conversations or
‘A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an someone explaining something.
episodic series of audio radio,video, PDF,
or ePub files subscribed to
and downloaded through web syndication or streamed
online to a computer or mobile device’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
Internet radio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Internet radio is radio just being streamed through a
‘Internet radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e- computer.
radiowebcasting) is an audio service transmitted via
the Internet. Music streaming on the Internet is usually
referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly
through wireless means’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio

5. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
AUDIO FORMATS
CD FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: A cd Is a compact disk to store digital data .
The Compact Disc, or CD for short, is an optical
disc used to store digital data. It was originally
developed to store and play back sound recordings
only, but the format was later adapted for storage of
data (CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-
R)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc
FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Music TV
Mucictv is mucick channels for example MTV play some of
Music television is a type of television programming which the top ten songs .
focuses predominantly on playing music videos from
bands, usually on dedicated television
channels broadcasting on satellite or cable. Music TVs 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

6. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Wav
Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly Wav is a audio format for a programme on a computer.
known as WAV due to its filename extension), (also, but
rarely, named, Audio for Windows[ is
aMicrosoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing
an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of
the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) bitstream
format’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
MP3 FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III more commonly Mp3 is the same as wav just played through a digital signal.
referred to as MP3, is apatented encoding format
for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data
compression. It is a common audio format for
consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto
standard of digital audio compression for the transfer
and playback of music on most digital audio players’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3

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