BBC 1 Radio facts

ACTS

-Radio remains resilient
- 90% adults tune in on a weekly basis
-Time spent listening to radio has increased since 2015
-UK adults spend majority of time spent listening to any audio is accounted for by live radio (71%)
- 16 to 24 year olds spend similar amounts of time with live radio (29%), personal digital audio (26%) and streaming services (25%)
-Overall commercial stations increased their revenue in 2015, with overall growth to 1.4% to £519 million, as national advertising offset overall declines in local advertising revenue
-In 2015, over 40% of all reported radio listening was via a digital device
-A second national DAB network of transmitters was switched on in March 2016, bringing 15 unique radio services to 75% of the UKs population

NEW TECHNOLOGY

-New technology has helped the radio industry evolve and increase in popularity
-A huge increase in the number of people downloading podcasts and streaming internet radio
-Studio webcams and social media have changed the audience relationship with radio by making listeners feel more connected to the presenters
-This type of media convergence is achieved through the use of blogs and forums on radio websites
-BBC u.s.p is introducing new brands
-Highest paid: breakfast show/ afternoon drive

PSB broadcasters have to achieve a mix of education, information and entertainment

Different remits for different channels
-The BBC has 100% PSB remit
-ITV has a smaller PSB remit
-Channel 4 has a large,but slightly different PSB remit (mostly tackled through its enforced aim of showing lots of niche programming
-Channel 5 has a tiny PSB remit (basically news) and all digital channels have no PSB remit

OFCOM is in charge of ensuring broadcasters keep to their PSB remit

RAJAR is how they regulate to the audience and market figures

Production and Distribution

What are the different responsibilities of presenters an producers?

presenters have to talk about what they are going to say and what activities or questions that they are going to be asking the guests as well as what questions to ask in terms of the interviewee, they also have to see what's songs to play at what times It might also be if we’ve got a guest coming in that they need to be briefed and so producers run through it again in the morning, and we’ll figure out where the gaps are so I can see what my job can be, where to fill, what do think about.

What preparation that goes into each programme

 Fiona nearly always is the person to do that so that’s run through what we’ve been talking through on that day’s show, It’s also simple editorial things like please don’t swear, please don’t mention these brands, please don’t talk about this thing etc. first few hours of the day will be looking through what’s happened and trying our best to reflect it really. The script itself, it’s not scripted in the sense of how you might read a book or something like that with every single sentence written out


what's most challenging an most enjoyable about Working on the show

 We brief guests and they know not to swear and things like that, if a guest were to suddenly go off and rant about something, or be offensive, in some way, then if it was in a very mild manner we might sort of gently remind them, remember that you’re on the radio and people are listening to this, but if it were to be severe then we would terminate the interview and that would be the end of it and so there might be awkward situations sometimes where a person is perhaps just a little too relaxed in that live environment and we’re broadcasting obviously to the whole nation and a lot of young people are listening.

What are the team dynamics

Initially you have to treat it like a job, and then the extra bits around that you go oh actually we all get on and there’s a natural chemistry and we all kind of fit. I’ve definitely worked on shows at Radio One before, where you think oh we don’t really get on or it’s not really working Its really important to trust each other, in the team, so quite often in live broadcast there is things which happen very quickly and sometimes unexpectedly, and so you need decisions to be made quickly

How can you break into radio

try and do it as much as you can and get as much experience, as Fiona said I think it takes a little while doing radio for it not to feel weird, not to be like oh I’m speaking in a room to nobody, so student radio is be best for gaining experience in terms of skills that was just exposing myself to how those radio stations worked. Also, picking up skills of communicating with people and how to sort of express yourself, and how to sort of be organised and all that kind of stuff.

Tabloid vs Broadsheet

Broadsheet:

 

• One big picture
• Large title
• Small advertisements
• Political headlines
• Lot's of text
• (A, B, C1)
• Serious
• Black and white
• Formal
• Intellectual
• Small font
• Not for children

 

 

Tabloid:

•  Bright colours
• Many different pictures
• Bold writing
• Short phrases
• Many Adverts
• Minimal text
• Large font
• Reality based- lifestyle
• Entertainment
• Popular
• Jokes and puns
• Gimmicks (bingo)
• Less- in depth journalism
• Informal

 

News Termonoligy

• TA (Target audience)- People who the newspaper aims to sell to.
• PQ (Pull quote)- Something taken from within an article, usually said by the person in the main image.
•  CA (Classified ad)- An advertisements that uses only text, as opposed to a display ad, which also incorporates graphics.
• S ( Skyline)- An information panel on the front page that tells the reader about the stories in he paper to tempt them inside.
• E (Edition)- Some newspapers print several of these every night, these are versions with some changes and maybe additional late stories.
• SF (Stand first)- Block of text that introduces the story, normally in a different style to the body text and headline.
• B (Byline)- The line above the story, which gives the author's name and sometimes their job and location.  
• CS (Centre spread)- A photograph, often in full colour, that runs across the middle two pages.
• LS (Lead story)- Main story using a splash.
• G (Gutter)- The blank space between margins of facing pages of a publication or the blank space between columns of text.
• F (Folio)- Top label for the whole paper.
• PF (Page furniture)- Everything on paper except pictures and text of stories.
• BT (Body text)- Also known as text. Written material that makes up main part of article.
• SA (Standalone)- Picture story that can stand on it's own or leads to a story inside.

• MH (Masthead)- Title of newspaper
• BC (Barcode)- Used to scan paper to buy
• C (Caption)- Brief description under a picture
• H (Headline)- A short phrase that summaries main article.
• MI (Main image)- Dominant picture, filling most of front page.
• PN (Page numbers)- A system of organisation for newspapers to put them in order and make them easy to read and locate articles.

Newspaper comparison

 

 

Left wing and Right wing comparison

Right Wing- Conservative

-Conservative supporters: UKIP, BNP
-Papers: Daily Mail, Telegraph
-' You earn what you work for, and you should keep what you earn'
- Survival of the fittest/richest/ best educated
-Believe in privatisation of things like health care, education etc
- Do not want a 'welfare state' , i.e.. benefits etc
- In favour of Brexit
- Anti-immigration
-Many voted against equal rights for gay people, some have 'traditional' views of women and pay
- Often tied to the Church and Christian beliefs

Left wing- Labour 

-Labour supporters: Labour Party, Green Party, Socialist Worker Party (extreme)
-Newspapers: The Guardian, Mirror
-Spread the wealth, more equality
-Taxation of the rich to pay for support for the poor
- Supports nationalisation ( public health, state education)
- Pro-europe, pro-immigration and multi-culture
- Pro-gay marriage, women rights etc
- Pro- environment and worried about climate change

OWEN JONES- '...largely run by a very small group of very right wing media moguls who defend the status quo of which they are part.If you are on the left and want to change society, the media will always come and get you'

Newspaper types

Broadsheets:

- Quality or Serious press
- Large Title 
- One large picture
- What's inside ( quick review) 
- Lots of text 
- Multiple headlines (serious) 
- Politics 
- Lacking in colour 
- Amount of text caters to older audience 
- Sophisticated articles 
- A/B/C1 demographics 

Tabloids:

- Popular press
- Lots of colour
- More reality based (popular culture) 
- Minimal text 
- No long article on the front page 
- Less in-depth reporting 
- Puns and jokes used in headlines
- More focus on human interest stories, celebrity gossip 
- Use of gimmicks e.g. bingo games, free travel tickets, phone-in surveys 
- C2/D/E demographics