The document discusses radio broadcasting by the BBC in the UK. It provides an overview of the BBC's national and digital radio stations, which cover a wide range of genres from popular music, to classical, to news and sports. The BBC is publicly funded through television licensing fees paid by UK households, which allows it to offer diverse programming without relying on advertisers. The document outlines some of the advantages to the BBC of this public funding model.

1. RADIO
By Munira Mohamed

2. WHAT IS RADIO BROADCASTING?
 Radio broadcasting is a way wireless broadcast over radio
waves planned to reach a wide audience. Stations can be
connected in radio networks to broadcast a common radio
format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both.

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 in-
house 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.

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.

8. THE LICENCE FEE
 The license fee is used nearly entirely to fund the BBC's domestic
radio, television and internet services.
 The money received from the fee signifies approximately 75% of
the cost of these services with most of the rest coming from the
profits of BBC Worldwide — a commercial wing of the corporation
which sells programmes and runs stations overseas (such as
BBC World News), other than business associated to
broadcasting for example, publishing.

9. ADVANTAGES OF BEING FUNDED BY THE
LICENSE FEE
 license fee funding will be a advantage to the World Service,
the wider BBC, and the British people. BBC’s license fee
funding is grounded on multi-year payments.
 The BBC does not have to depend on advertisers to fund it,
it can create more specialty and minority programming.
commercial stations these sorts of programmes might not
get a enough audience, so advertisers would not want to
give the station money.

10. WHAT ELSE THE BBC OWNS?
 BBC is a public corporation. It is held by the BBC Trust and
established by a Royal Charter funded by the licensed paid by UK
households.