C1 Radio

 Wednesday 27th November 2024

Radio Research

• BCC radio 1- popular pop music
• BCC radio Xtra- Rap, R&B, hip hop etc
• BCC radio dance- dance/ electronic music
• BCC radio 2- folk, jazz, soul, classic etc
• BBC radio 3-Jazz drama culture etc
• BBC radio 5- News, sport, discussion
• BBC radio 6-Classic tracks across eras and genres
• BBC Sports extra- live sports
• BBC Asian Network- Eastern/ Asian music

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Do Now:

1. BBC radio 1
2. A radio that makes money from advertisement / run from profit
3. It reflects the diverse interests of people in British culture
4. What is LIAR? = Language, Industry, Audience, Representation
5. Context is the information included to help something make sense / or the background/origin of a piece of information/ Historical, political, and cultural

Wednesday 4th December 2024

The Radio Industry

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To explore the content and structure of the unit

Public Service Broadcaster: Public funding

Commercial Radio: A radio station funded by profit/ advertising

Community Radio: Low power radio stations, which are meant to be set up and operated by local communities

Podcast: series of spoken word episodes focused on a particular topic/ theme ; digital audio file

DAB radio: Digital radio, requires internet connection

RAJAR: Radio, Joint, Audience, Research- in charge of measuring radio audience in the UK

Licence fee: Any television transmissions in the UK must have a licence before being broadcasted

Royal Charter: An instrument of incorporation, granted by the Monarch; sets out BBC's object, mission, and public puposes

Remit: the remit of radio 4 is to be a mixed speech service

Convergence: the process by which multiple media technologies are brought together into one computerised device

UK radio categories:

• BBC Radio: a public service broadcaster that operates several national stations and many local radio stations; targets several audiences; funded by licence fee
• COMMUNITY radio: not-for-profit radio: covers small areas and serves the interests of a particaular social group ; funded by grants, advertising etc
• COMMERCIAL radio: funded by advertising, e.g. Classic FM

Explain the difference between how public service radio and commercial radio are funded [4]

Public service radios are are broadcasted to serve several national stations and many local stations; and is funded by licence fee, for example BBC radio 1 is a radio station broadcasted throughout the UK, mainly delivering pop and new music. On the other hand, commercial radios are funded by advertisement and might not have 

DAB radios have better quality; you don't need to carry a radio with you to listen on; it streams live; you can download podcasts; you can access other social media platforms e.g. YouTube

Do Now:

1. An active audience is an audience that interacts, questions, and engages with the content
2. A passive audience is an audience that does not engage with the content and passively takes it in
3. The uses and gratifications theory is PIES: Personal identity, Information,

Do Now:

1. A public service broadcaster is a radio funded by the public A radio that is independent of government financed by public money
2. A commercial advertisement is funded by advertisement
3. BBC radio 4 is news talk, comedy and drama Mixed speech/ spoken word
4. Radio is regulated by OFCOM
5. The popularity of radio has been affected by mobile access to music (and DAB?) TV, technical convergence

Wednesday 18th December 2024

The Archers

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To explore the content and background of our set product

Explain why radio is still so popular? [4]

• Music-choose your favourites via podcast or listen again.
• Listen to on the go  ( car, etc)
• Its free, accesible, and national

Radio is still a popular form of media today as unlike many its free and accessible on the go, consists of many genres for different people-for example BBC 4, Heart, BBC radio 1 etc- and, it's a national thing.

The Archers;

• Its a drama
• Broadcasted from 1951 
• over 20000 episodes over 75 years

Soap Opera conventions

-Matriarchs= Strong female protagonists

-Family/work/ relationships

-designed for regular listening

- ongoing stories to keep listeners hooked

- Multi-strand narratives

-set in specific locations

-features more dialogue than action

- We can listen to the Archers via internet, classic radio (92 to 95 FM)

PRODUCTION:

• Monthly script meetings where writers have to produce a weeks worth of scripts
• Recordings take place every 4 weeks and actors only recieve their scripts only a few days before
• a 13 minute episode is only 2 hours worth of studio time

What is the Archers and why is it so popular?

The Archers is an ongoing soap opera fiction podcast revolving around the lives of farming people in a rural setting. It has been produced since 1951, origionally made to help people farm and ration after WW2; it has produced over 20000 episodes over 75 years and remains one of the most popular, on-demand podcasts broadcasted. The Archers podcast is produced daily, but every Sunday releases an omnibus to people wanting to catch up.

Because of the amount of storylines and information in these 13 minute episodes, it keeps people hooked, they get to see the lives, relationships, and work of these people and watch them evolve over the year. the audience is primarily targeted at middle-aged, rural white women- traditionally for women running the home.

Do Now:

1. The Archers was first broadcasted in 1951
2. It was broadcasted on Radio 4
3. Long-running storylines and dramatic
4. The Archers broadcast everyday (except Saturday), and have a Sunday catch-up where all the episodes that week is put into a single episode. strong-female protagonists 
5. BBC's remit is music and mixed speech BBC's remit is to inform, educate, and entertain

Wednesday 8th January 2025

Set Episode

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to explore a specific episode of each set text and the target audience

Storyline:

-Helen has moved

- It's Christmas and theres a show? but it got cancelled so they are going to do their own show

- Gavin has returned and found Christie (Gavin has had a bad history?), they are re-connecting as , Kirsty asked him to leave after conflict

- Glinda saw Gavin and is distressed

Main characters:
Joy, Christie, Gavin, Wicken, Jorden, blake, kenzie, Glinda

Genre conventions:

Audience appeals:

How does it 'inform, educate, and entertain'?:

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Social or cultural contexts:

- Nick/ Mick is living in a van on a pub parking lot, suggesting he is too poor to afford a house

- Modern slavery

- Pub- community base

- Vicar suggests religion and christianity

Play-

• Christmas play with Nick (or Mick) as Santa
• plays the before and after the play

Gavin-

• Gavin just got out of prison
• coughing suggests he is ill and is in poor living
• living in a hostel
• trying to make amends and sounds rependent
• complicit in a crime, but then told the truth
• mother disowned him, dad we are not sure
• labourer on a building site
• ran a building business with his dad( Philip), which was secretly using slave labour

Kirsty-

• upset and shocked that he's there
• Gavin is/ was her stepson

Educate and inform: prison release + slave labour + shows the close relationships between characters

Entertain: Christmas show

Question= How does the archers portray the social and cultural contexts ...

• Soap operas is daily life and events that people experience fitted into shorter time periods