2. WHAT IS RADIO BROADCASTING?
Radio broadcasting includes many technologies that
combine to form a technique of one way transmission of
audio data. This is used to communicate information by
radio for public or widespread use. It’s a form of
communication that helps to spread news to many
spectators from different locations at the same time.
3. PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
BBC Audio & Music is a share of the British Broadcasting
Corporation. The service offers national radio stations covers
most of the musical genres, as well as local radio stations .
The national radio stations, BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live are
all accessible through analogue radio (5 Live on AM only) then on
DAB Digital Radio and internet services through Real Media,
WMA and BBC IPlayer. The other stations, BBC Radio 1Xtra, 4
Extra, 5 Live Sports Extra and 6 Music, all program on digital
platforms only.
Majority of the BBC's national radio stations, with the exception of
BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra who
broadcast from Media City UK in Salford, broadcast from bases in
London
However, radio programs are also made in the BBC's network
production units located in other cities around the UK.
4. BBC NATIONAL RADIO STATIONS
BBC Radio 1 – popular music aimed at a young audience
BBC Radio 1Xtra – hip hop, garage, RnB, drum & bass &
dancehall, aimed at a young audience
BBC Radio 2 – adult-orientated popular music
BBC Radio 3 – classical, jazz and world music, culture, drama
BBC Radio 4 – spoken-word programmes
BBC Radio 4 Extra – archive comedy, drama and children's
programming, formerly known as Radio 7
BBC Radio 5 Live – news and sport
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra - sport, used as an overflow
station when 5 Live is broadcasting live sport at the same time
BBC Radio 6 Music – rock, funk, alternative
BBC Asian Network – Indian and British content aimed at British
Asians (some areas on analogue, nationwide on digital)
5. BBC DIGITAL RADIO STATIONS
Platforms: Internet Streaming/Sky/free sat/Freeview/DAB) radio
stations are:
BBC Radio 1Xtra: new urban music, plus news, original in-house
live music sessions, original live music concerts and music
documentaries
BBC Radio 4 Extra: classic comedy, drama, books, science
fiction, fantasy and children's programs
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: a companion to Radio 5 Live for
additional sports events coverage
BBC Radio 6 Music: an eclectic mix of alternative genres
including rock, funk, punk and reggae, plus news, original inhouse live music sessions, original live music concerts and music
documentaries
BBC Asian Network: aimed at the large South Asian community in
the UK (primarily a digital radio station, but available in parts of
the Midlands on medium wave)
6. BBC WORLD SERVICE RADIO STATIONS
BBC WORLD SERVICE
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international
broadcaster, broadcasting news, speech and discussions in 28
languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital
shortwave platforms, internet streaming, pod casting, satellite, FM
and MW relays. The World Service was reported to have reached
188 million people a week on average in June 2009.It does not
carry advertising, and the English language service broadcasts
24 hours a day.
The World Service is currently funded by grant-in-aid through the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British Government,
however from 2014, it will be funded by the compulsory television
license fee levied on every household in the United Kingdom
using a television to watch broadcast programmes.
7. BBC REGIONAL RADIO STATIONS
BBC Radio Scotland
BBC Radio nan Gàidheal – Scottish Gaelic language
BBC Radio Shetland – Scotland (Shetland)
BBC Radio Orkney – Scotland (Orkney)
BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Cymru – Welsh language
BBC Radio Ulster – Northern Ireland
BBC Radio Foyle – Northern Ireland (Londonderry)
BBC Local Radio is the BBC's regional radio service for England and the
Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations. They cover a variety of areas with
some serving a city and surrounding areas, for example BBC Radio
Manchester; a county, for example BBC Radio Norfolk; an administrative
region for example BBC WM; or a larger region entirely for example BBC
Radio Solent.
The stations were launched progressively starting with BBC Radio Leicester
on 8 November 1967 with the last station to launch being the ill fated BBC
Dorset FM on 26 April 1993. Since then, numerous local radio stations have
been merged and renamed, however no new stations have been created
where no service previously existed.
8. ADVANTAGES OF BEING FUNDED BY THE
LICENSE FEE
We believe that license fee funding will be a benefit to the World Service, the
wider BBC,
and the British people. The BBC’s license fee funding is based on multi-year
settlements,
with the current funding arrangement lasting until 2017. Although the BBC’s
income is
itself constrained over this period, this level of certainty in funding provides a
relatively
stable environment in which to make decisions about existing and future
services. A
combination of a secure funding source, and the clarity of purpose set out in the
Operating License, will give the World Service a strong footing to plan its
activities for the
coming years.
We believe that the rest of the BBC also benefits from funding the World Service
through
the license fee.
9. WHAT ELSE THE BBC OWNS?
They own sister companies such as BBC
films, BBC radio 1extra and so on as well as
digital channels BBC 3, BBC 4 which are
designed to appeal to a different audience.
10. WHAT INDUSTRY IS IT LINKED TOO
The radio industry is linked to advertising and
marketing industry as it uses adverts in some
radio stations such as capital FM uses
adverts.
Also the radio industry is linked to the
interactive media industries as they use their
Facebook website or twitter account to gain
followers.
