Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Radio research

Capital FM south coast


Capital FM south coast is a contemporary hits radio aimed at a younger audience teens to early 20s where modern chart hits are frequently repeated.

Listener needs -all through the day- tend to be:

  • Chart music
  • Gossip
  • Presenter banter
  • Competitions and concert info
  • Humour
  • Social media





Young people would be the main audience of this radio station. The website contains:

Comfort
  • Listeners are always involved with contests and presenter banter that the listeners can relate to such as news in the social media and phone calls involving listeners with contests making them feel involved with the station which is more likely to keep them listening.
Chillout
  • As its contemporary hits the station only plays the music that the listeners want to hear as you can see from the screen grab its top chart music, this keeps the audience happy and in a mood to keep listening. The presenters talk about things which involve the audience making them feel comfortable such as quiz and contests even on twitter.
Alive/Energize 
  • The station tends to get people in the mood for a night out in the evening rather than winding down as its main audience spends its nights clubbing. Also contests excite the listeners and keep them tuned in.
Socialize/Gossip
  • This website contains a lot of celeb gossip and this means that it caters to the target audiences interests , as you can see there are alot of articles available online and a link to the capital twitter page where the presenters connect with listeners through social media. The presenters play upbeat music which will give them the enthusiasm to go out.


Tuesday, 16 October 2012

BBC- a unique broadcaster

BBC- a unique broadcaster

BBC radio was formed in order to stop Radio pirating which still happens today. Radio pirating is where a radio is broadcasted without license. BBC was formed in 1922 to prevent this and Radio 1 was launched in 1967 to prevent this.






The Royal Charter
The BBC Trust - BBC is established by a Royal Charter. It is a constitutional basis for the BBC. It sets out the public purposes of the BBC and it guarantees independence. The BBC is independent from the government due to this Royal Charter and agreement. This makes it different from commercial radio but...
how is the BBC funded?
The BBC makes its money mainly through TV licence. License fee is about £145 for colour TV. The BBC as an organization doesn't subject its audience to advertising which is how other commercial radio and TV make its money. BBC makes its money purely from license fee.
Is value for money provided?
Paying £145.00 is good value for money for TV and radio in my opinion. With the license fee the BBC formed a program of in depth value for money reviews carried out by national audit offices in a way that the BBC determines value for money. One report published shows that the BBC manages the costs of its support functions supports value for money. BBC's reporting of overhead costs improves transparency. So paying for a license fee is considered good value for money. One of the BBC's missions/objectives for 2012 is to make the license fee work even harder.

BBC have visions , objectives and values for the future. The BBC's mission is to educate inform and entertain. With its TV and radio stations doing so. BBC intend to make a greater improvement to quality in their output. BBC is the most creative organization in the world. BBC aim to provide value for money by providing a basic service of entertaining and informing the public. The BBC provide many services on TV , Radio and Online.
What they do? TV and multi-platform .

BBC TV channels:    
  • BBC one
  • BBC two
  • BBC three
  • BBC four
  • CBBC
  • Cbeebies
  • BBC news
  • BBC parliament
  • BBC HD 
  • BBC ALBA

BBC Radio:
  • BBC radio one
  • BBC radio one Xtra
  • BBC radio two
  • BBC radio three
  • BBC radio four
  • BBC radio four extra
  • BBC radio five live
  • BBC radio five live sports extra
  • BBC radio 6 music
  • BBC radio asian network
Online:
  • BBC online
  • BBC Iplayer
Around the world there are services such as BBC around the world news and BBC world service. BBC also have services around the UK like BBC Scotland and BBC north. BBC have commercial products which help fund its public services such as Doctor who box set etc. This makes it unique that it is independent and its broadcasting is different to other commercial TV and Radio.






Sources for Research:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/value_for_money/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whoweare/mission_and_values/objectives.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whoweare/licencefee/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/

Music Radio- the beginning...

Important dates in UK radio history:

1922-BBC started daily broadcasting.

1927- BBC becomes a corporation.

1967-BBC launched Radio 1.

1973-Birth of commercial radio.

1990-Radio 5 begins broadcasting. Broadcasting act allows more deregulation in the industry.

1992-Launch of Radio advertising bereau . Launch of RAJAR.

1995-Talk Radio begins broadcasting.

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

RAJAR

Using the resources i discovered today i located some information of the following...

Here are five of the largest radio stations which are based in hampshire:

  • Jack FM
  • Heart 
  • Capital FM south coast
  • BBC Radio Solent
  • Wave 105
Jack FM
Population- 1,706,000
Reach- 193,000
Hours per listener- 6.5
Share of TSA- 4.30

Heart
Population- 1,796,000
Reach- 341,000
Hours per listener- 8.4
Share of TSA- 7.00

Capital FM
Population- 1,796,000
Reach- 188,000
Hours per listener- 6.3
Share of TSA- 2.90

BBC Radio Solent
Population- 1,572,000
Reach- 274,000
Hours per listener- 10.7
Share of TSA- 8.30

Wave 105
Population- 1,776,000
Reach- 356,000
Hours per listener- 10.8
Share of TSA- 9.70