C1 Radio

 

Thursday, 5th December 2024

Radio research 

BBC national radio stations and what they broadcast;

BBC Radio 1 - It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternate genres at night, including electronica, dance, hiphop, and indie 

BBC Radio 1 Anthems - The latest anthems like Ed Sheeran, BTS, Olivia Rodrigo and more
 
BBC Radio 1 Dance - The station plays a mix of back-to-back current, future and classic electronic dance music, and broadcasts exclusively on BBC sounds. 

BBC Radio 1 Relax - a spin-off from BBC radio 1. The station played a selection of relaxation and well-being focused shows, and broadcast exclusively on BBC sounds.

BBC Radio 1Xtra - It broadcasts black music and urban music, including hip hop and R&B 

BBC Radio 2 - It plays a wide range of popular music from the 1960s to the present day.

BBC Radio 3 - Broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also featuring.

BBC Radio 4 - Broadcasts a wide variety of speech-related programming, including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - It is an archive entertainment network broadcasting classic comedy, drama and features. 

BBC Radio 5 Live -  Includes breaking news and live sports coverage, bringing its audience major news stories and sport events as they happen, along with programming designed to inform, entertain and involve.

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra -

BBC Radio 6 Music - classic tracks across eras and genres and the station also has a strong commitment to live music.

BBC Asian Network - Everything from Bollywood, Bhangra and British Asian music to underground and new DJ's and artists

Thursday, 19th December 2024

Do Now 

1 - BBC radio 1

2 - Commercial radio is a radio station run for profit

3 - BBC radio reflects British culture by presenting diverse interests of the people who live in Britain

4 - LIAR is Language, industry, audience, representation

5 - Context is Historical, Political, social, and cultural

The radio industry 

Public service broadcaster - Television and radio programmes that are broadcasted to provide information, advice, or entertainment to the public without trying to make a profit.

Commercial radio - Commercial radio stations make money by selling advertising. Having a large listening audience leads to more advertisers. The more advertisers a station has, the more it can charge for its advertising.

Community radio - Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors to media. 

Podcast - a digital audio or visual video on the internet talking about a particular theme or area of topic.

DAB radio - uses digital technology to distribute your favourite radio stations. 

RAJAR - Radio joint audience research is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the united kingdom. RAJAR was set up by the BBC and the RadioCentre in 1992 to measure their audiences using the same system.

Licence fee - An amount of money that you pay a company organization to give you permission to use, do, or have something.

Royal Charter - It sets out the BBC's object, mission and public purposes

Remit - The remit of Radio 4 is to be a mixed speech service, offering in-depth news and current affairs and a wide range of other speech output.

convergence - the process by which multiple media technologies are brought together into one computerised device.

BBC radio - The BBC is a public service broadcaster that operates several national stations (radio 1) and many local radio stations (radio Cornwall). Each of these has a distinct identity and targets a specific audience, The BBC is publicly funded by the licence fee.

COMMUNITY RADIO - often not for profit, these tend to cover small areas and serve the interests of a particular social group. They can be funded from a variety of sources such as grants, advertising, fundraising ect...

COMMERCIAL RADIO - These are funded by advertising. The UK has many of these - They are often focused on particular genres of music and are very popular.

OFCOM regulates the radio in the UK 

The difference between public and commercial radio are very prominent due to the funding and way of profit these radio stations make. Commercial radio receives profit from advertisements, the more listeners they get the more profit they receive due to audiences growing larger and companies having to pay more to be broadcasted. PSB radio is funded by the TV license. Which is paid for by the public. Commercial radio is funded by people/companies paying to advertise on the radio. 

Main characters

Woman one - Joy - nosy neighbour

Woman two - Kirsty - estate agent - does not like joy and is trying to get away

Gavin - has been in prison and has come back out - he is sorry 

Mick - Santa in a play - lives in a pub car park in his van - went litter picking - housing crisis

Genre conventions

Many storylines

switches characters

love and drama

family conflict

Audience appeals

Drama and continued storyline

Inform, educate, and entertain

Housing crisis

Impact of social or cultural contexts

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  2025 Thursday, 23rd January

Do now

1 - The archers first broadcast was in the year 1951

2 - The archers was first broadcasted on BBC radio 4 

3 - Strong female characters and set in specific locations

4 - the archers broadcast on the radio every Saturday at 7pm

5 - BBC's remit is To inform, educate and entertain

Helen Archer

Settled with her family, her nightmare marriage behind her, has Helen finally lost her title of unluckiest woman in Ambridge?

Fact title	Fact data
Played by:	Louiza Patikas
Born:	16 April 1979
Status:	Single
Occupation:	Shop manager / cheesemaker
Lives at:	Beechwood Estate

Born with a dislocated hip, Helen was frail as a baby but grew into a horse-mad teenager keen on a career in food. The death of her brother John in 1998 hit her hard, as did a doomed relationship with Greg Turner, who took his own life in 2004.

After battling a near-fatal eating disorder, Helen decided not to wait for Mr Right and gave birth to Henry, conceived by donor insemination, in 2011. She was at her happiest when she met Mr Wrong, Rob Titchener, two years later.

Their passionate affair led to a hasty wedding, but his charm soon turned to coercion and cruelty. Eventually, heavily pregnant and fearful for Henry, Helen stabbed Rob. When the scale of his abuse emerged, a jury cleared Helen of attempted murder and she was awarded custody of Henry and baby Jack. Enraged, Rob tried to snatch Jack but Helen saw him out of Ambridge, enabling her to start afresh.

Bert Horrobin

Widower Bert lives in a busy household

Fact title	Fact data
Played by:	Martyn Read
Status:	Widower
Occupation:	Retired road-worker
Lives at:	6, The Green

After the death of Bert's long-suffering wife Ivy in 2011, Bert's daughter Susan asked her sister Tracy to move in. Canny Tracy agreed - after the place was spruced up and Bert had made it a joint tenancy.

Bert shares his home with Tracy, her two children Brad and Chelsea and Tracy's husband Jazzer. He usually spends his days in his armchair watching television or drinking a pint at The Bull. However on rare occasions he's been know to branch out, including reluctantly modelling for a fashion show and hosting a secret party whilst his family were away.

• Likes - A pint
• Dislikes - Housework, any sort of work
• Highs - Marrying Ivy (but that was a long time ago)
• Lows - Where do you start...?

Right wing e.g. votes conservative

Age - 40 62% over 55 

gender - female 76% female 

location - England or towns white british / midlands 

income - low or normal high disposable income

class - average upper class

sexuality - straight? 

religion - christian?

The archers is perceived as a high-quality soap opera and distinguishes itself from tv soaps by providing soap for the educated middle-classes

Radio four has a high cultural status and so the audience for the archers consists mainly of well-educated middle-class professionals, most of whom are middle aged and above women.

Listeners from different walks of life could engage with the show in different ways due to its stranded narratives. As a listener you might be rooting for one particular character whilst your friend might be interested in another character relationship entirely.

Thursday, 30th January 2025

Do now

1 - The archers has about 7 million listeners 6 million

2 - upper class women ABC 1

3 - 7pm every day but Saturday 

4 - demographics

5 - BBC remit is to inform educate and entertain

A popular story in the archers was a domestic violence scenario with a woman called Helen and her husband rob it represented abuse and the consequences it has on a person mentally and physically. In the story Helen stabbed Rob to death in-front of their son due to being unable to take anymore, in her court case she was free of charge. This story created an emotional storm across facebook and twitter of people having an emotional reaction. Tea groups and donations to an abuse charity was run and raised a whopping 100k.

The BBC uses various platforms such as radio and the internet to provide their episode to the audience. The Archers is available on their website, through Alexa's, radio and Spotify. It is streamed on the radio on 7pm on a Saturday with a follow up the next day at 2pm the following day. The podcasts are based on real life plotlines but the stories fictional and is promoted through fans tweeting and promoting the podcast and shown oh BBC. Fans also engage through platforms like twitter and facebook. This plot-line created a storm and raised over 90 thousand pounds for a abuse charity from online donations and donation on a meet-up for tea. All of these factors appeal to the audience as it discusses real life tops, is easily accesable, and is short and entertaining.

Why might audiences listen to the Archers? Refer to uses and gratification in your answer (12 marks)

Audiences listen to the archers because of the social and relatable concepts included in the podcast, The archers has included an unbelievable amount of characters with different lives and different experiences. Audiences that listen to the podcast may feels more accepted and interested in the storyline and want to learn more about what happens to a character they relate with, share interest with, or align views or perspectives with, alongside overall liking particular characters. It also appeals to the audience through the use of providing information to those on how country life is and how rural areas and farmlands live, work, and come together as a community making people who do not live in a quiet area or live someone like towns or cities feel engaged and interested in what happens elsewhere. A large part of the fame and community of the archers is the aspect that the audience finds its entertaining and enjoy listening to the show, as it is accesable anywhere and can be listened to on the go or when you are relaxing at home and even has a re run on the BBC website the next day if that is when you like to catch up. It is often an escape from real life and is a relaxing podcast to tune inti on your alexa, phone, Spotify and other streaming services. The archers has created a community where people discuss and interact on platforms like twitter and Facebook, the archers caused a storm due to a plotline of abuse and overall raised 100 thousand pounds to an abuse charity due to the community creating tea meetings and sending in dontions, the archers does not only act as a form of entertainment but a form of community and place somewhere when you may not feel accepted in your own. Overall the interest in the archers covers all of the uses of the gratifications theory through all these aspects and ideas creating a large supportive audience that will continue to grow.

Thursday 6th February 2025

Do now

1 - The three types of radio are community, commercial and PSB

2 - Public radio is funded by the TV license   

3 - commercial radio is funded by advertising

4 - Community radio has a very small broadcasting area

5 - BBC radio 4 is where the archers is broadcasted

Exam questions and responses

OFCOM regulates radio

     

Types of radio = public service broadcasting, commercial, and community 

Commercial radio is funded by advertising whereas public radio is funded by the TV licence...

The archers fits into the BBC remit due to the use of informing the listener on real life issues in society. We see this in the archers when Mick is in a van due to the cost of living crisis, Mick doesn't have enough money to afford a home or be financially stable causing issues in his life and relationships. This links to the BBC remit as it is a real world problem that many people relate too as this problem is arising and becoming more problematic in society, the use of Mick's story is emphasising how rural villages and towns are affected by this global issues and some listeners may even relate to the storyline.

One audience for the archer are ABC1 women from the age of about 27 - 47 (middle aged)  who live rurally

The archer's is aimed at the audience (women) because of the use of strong feminine characters and storylines that many women may relate to and understand, it also appeals to these women as it shows domestic life and rural life which the listeners most likely also live domestically and be interested on how people live rurally.

Audiences listen to the archers as they get a sense of social interaction. The archers is a popular radio show with hundreds and hundereds of fan-pages on platforms like twitter and Facebook with people putting their opinions and how they enjoyed the podcast. One example of social interaction from the archers was due to the story of a character names Helen, Helen was a woman who was in an abusive relationship and over time killed her husband, many fans felt emotion and empathy for helens story and decided to come together for tea meetings tweeting #FREEHELEN on twitter and posting pictures on facebook and donating in the end thee community raised almost 100 thousand pounds for abuse charities.

Thursday 13th February 2025

Do Now

1 - there are 2 media exams

2 - each exam is an hour and 45 minutes? an hour and 30 mins

3 - The archers is on BBC radio 4

4 - The BBC is funded through the tv license license fee

5 - The ethos of the BBC is to educate, inform, and entertain