1. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Thomas McDonagh
BROADCAST
Terrestrial radio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
‘Terrestrial (land based) radio stations still provide millions of listeners with music, talk,
news and more. Whether you're looking for a particluar station by geography, format, or WORDS:
other criteria, these directories and databases will help your search. In addition, you will One of the first types of radio
find links here to "airchecks" - recordings of legendary and famous radio programs and
DJs, hosts and personalities.’
before digital.Although it is
now out dated lots of radio
http://radio.about.com/od/terrestrialradio/Terrestrial_Radio_Station_Directories_Databa stations still use it.
ses_and_Airchecks.htm
Digital audio
FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
broadcasting (DAB) EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
WORDS:
‘Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio technology DAB is a way for radios to
for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. broadcast. It is used to more
As of 2006, approximately 1,002 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format. specific places the FM radio
The DAB standard was initiated as a European research project in the which is more broad.
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

2. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Thomas McDonagh
News and features FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
packages ‘A news package is usually the longest type of storytelling found on television EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
newscasts. They are also found in long-form news programming, such as the CBS News
program 60 MinutesA package is a self-contained taped news report. Usually, the news
WORDS:
anchor will read an introduction live, then the pre-recorded story will be shown’ Programme devoted to news
http://media.about.com/od/mediatermsandglossary/g/News-Package.htm
for a long time.
Music and speech FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
based programming EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
‘Most media groups use cross media content to advertise there radio stations or television WORDS:
shows, this helps gain more audiences and audience feedback so that they know what the Radio stations devoted to
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 Speech and music.
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:
‘Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play,[1] radio theater) is a dramatized, EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
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
WORDS:
effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story’ Where a play would be done
on a radio station. You would
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama
hear the people speaking. You
would hear sound effects and

3. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Thomas McDonagh
music which would be
dependent on the type of play
that it was
Commercials FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
‘Advertising, paid classified messages in newspapers, magazines, flyers, billboards, and EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
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’
WORDS:The way a lot of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial stations make their money by
putting them in between
programs. The price is sorted
by how popular that station is
and the programme that the
commercial will next to
NON-BROADCAST
Podcasts FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
‘A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio
radio,video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web
WORDS:
syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device’ A type of archived radio that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast anybody can use. Podcasts are
most commonly used in iTunes
Internet radio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
‘Internet radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radiowebcasting) is an EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
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
WORDS:
means’. Radio that is broadcasted over
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio
the internet

4. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Thomas McDonagh
AUDIO FORMATS
CD FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:
The Compact Disc, or CD for short, is an optical disc used to store digital EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN
data. It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings WORDS:
only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM), write-
once audio and data storage (CD-R) A way to buy physical music. It
overtook the recorder. You
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc download music on to a cd disc
from WAV and AIFF. It over
took the recorder because it
was more hardwearing
FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Music TV
‘Music television is a type of television programming which focuses predominantly Music TV channels that are
on playing music videos from bands, usually on dedicated television
channels broadcasting on satellite or cable. Music TVs may host their own
devoted to music. It is a way of
shows charts, award prizes. Examples watching music videos for free.
are VIVA, Scuzz, MTV, JBTV, MuchMusic, Kerrang TV, VH1, Fuse TV, And there would be
and Palladia Wigan Pier’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_television
advertisements alongside the
songs
FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS: EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
Wav
‘Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due to its WAV is a way to download
filename extension), (also, but rarely, named, Audio for Windows[ is music to a CD.
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:

5. L2 BTEC Creative Media Production
IG1 Task 1 Worksheet
Broadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats
Thomas McDonagh
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III more commonly referred to as MP3, is
apatented encoding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data MP3 is a way of recording
compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as audio
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