C1 radio

                        RADIO 

1.      BBC radio 1, BBC radio anthems, BBC radio 1 dance, BBC radio 1 extra, BBC RADIO 2, BBC radio 3, BBC radio 3 unwind, BBC radio 4  BBC radio 4 extra, BBC radio 5 live, BBC radio 5 sports extra, BBC radio 6 music, BBC radio Asian network, BBC world service,
• BBC radio 1 - contemporary hit music
• BBC radio dance - electronic dance music,
• BBC radio extra - black contemporary music
• BBC radio 2 - adult contemporary music
• BBC radio 3  - classical jazz, world music, culture and drama
• BBC radio 3 unwind - classical and meditation music
• BBC radio 4 - spoken word programme
• BBC radio 4 - archive programme
• BBC radio 5 - news, current affairs, discussion and sports.
• BBC radio 5 sports extra - sports coverage
• BBC radio 6 music - alternative music
• BBC radio Asian network - station for the British Asian community
• BBC radio world service - international station for current affairs and news

             3. the BBC is diverse because has music for everyone

               4. classical FM

                 5.Pirate FM

                6. commercial radios are funded by advertisements for profit

                 7. to provide impartial news and information to help people understand the world around them

                8. £75- £1480 for a license,

                9.commercial radios rely on advertisements unlike the BBC

                 10. spoken word programming is the target audience for BBC radio 4

                  11. BBC radio 4's target audience is 55 yrs and older

                   12. coast player

                    13.

                     14. greatest hits radio

                      15.

                       16. ofcom

DO NOW     3/5                                                                                                      4th December 2024

1. BBC radio asian network
2. radio stations that rely on advertisements for income/ run for profit
3. the BBC has music for everyone
4.  language, industry, audience, representation
5. historical, political, social and culture

    

                                                     

        

                            COMPONENT 1 - THE RADIO INDUSTRY     

BBC radio: the BBC is a public service broadcaster that operates several national stations, each stations have a distinct identity and has a target audience, the BBC is funded by licences,

Community radio: often not for profit, they cover small radios,

Public service radios are funded by their licences to have access to the website/channel., and do not rely on outside advertisement. whereas commercial radio channels are funded by the advertisements played on the radio channel, aiming for profit, relying on outside advertisement.

Two benefits of DAB radio is it is easy to access, and better quality.

DO NOW                                                                                           18th December 2024

1. radio stations that are funded by licences to have access to their channel
2. advertisements
3. news, music for everyone, programming, mixed speech, spoken words
4.  ofcom
5. television, internet, streaming sites.

                                   exam style question

      briefly explain why radio is still so popular?     [4 marks] 

music because you can choose favourites by using podcasts or a listen again, another reason for this popularity in radio is you can listen on the go in the car for free, it is accessible and nationally free.

         

                              the Archers  

                                        

soap operas     

• ,the traditional target audience for soap operas are females because of many powerful female characters,
• stories focused on family, work or relationships,
• designed for daily listening,
• ongoing stories to keep viewers hooked,
• multi-strand narratives to reflect real life,
• set in specific locations where characters meet,
• tend to feature more dialogue than action, drama rises through character conflict.

you can listen to the archers on BBC radio 4, on the podcast, internet, in continental Europe, and the rest of the world.

they plan their scripts biannually for the coming months episodes or even years worth of storylines.

episodes are broadcasted 3-6 weeks after recording the episode.

recording takes place every 4 weeks and actors only receive their scripts a few days before shooting the episode

the target audience is adults and older women in the UK. [ traditional mothers ]

the Archers is the worlds longest running radio soap opera, it began podcast in 1951 on Radio 4 in part to educate returning soldiers about world war 2, the show set in a fictional village of Amberside, it explores comforting tales about rural english life, some stories are more dramatic but most are about relationships or more realistic everyday activities like farming. each episode is about 13 minutes long. and listened by more than 5 million people. the show is broadcasted everyday at 7pm. again in the next day weekly omnibus. the target audience are older British people and older women

DO NOW                                                                                                8th January 2025

1. 1951
2. BBC radio 4
3.  strong female characters, set in specific locations
4.  7pm every Saturday, the next day at 2pm, and Sunday morning
5.  to inform, educate and entertain.

                                        Set Episode

                      the archers include:

• storylines: a Christmas play with Santa and Gavin got out of prison
• main characters: Gavin, Nick
• genre conventions
• audience appeal
• how does the episode inform, educate or entertain
• how does the episode show the impact of cultural contexts.

in the show, you can only hear the actors, when their is silence a new scene begins, 

in the play, you can hear that there is a Christmas play with Santa, someone is nervous before the play, and after the play the pantomime is congratulated

Gavin: sounds ill - poor living

Hostel - doll house

sounds sorry repeatedly

competent in a crime scene but then told truth.

Social/cultural: 

living in a van, cannot afford a house 

slavery- modern

the community comes together for a pantomime,

The pub is where people meet (community based), 

a vicar to show religion,

village life is community based.

inform/ educate/entertain:

Educate: prison release had to fit into educate slave labour

 Characters: Gavin Moss is welsh, Kristy Muller, Linda is posh, Joy is from Newcastle, 

Inform: rural life is community based, close relationships

Entertain: the writers carefully bring in different topics to keep the audience entertained and to keep listening to their channel.

DO NOW                                                              15th January 2025

1951

1. slavery, Santa.
2. strong female characters, set in specific locations
3. 7pm every day but Saturday at 2PM and Saturday evening of all the weeks episodes.
4. to Inform, educate and Entertain.

                                      AUDIENCE 

• Age 55+ years old. (62%)
• Gender: Male, Female,
• Location:  Borsetshire
• Income: Above Average
•  Class: ABC1, Upper middle class
• Sexuality: Straight
• Religion: Christian

   

                                  AUDIENCE AND U&G   

 

• Podcasts
• The News
• the official website
• clips online
• behind the scenes videos

in the Archers, the most controversial happenings on the shows history are:

• Nick playing Russian roulette because he wanted to die
• Grace Archer dying in a barn fire
• Rob Titchener tormenting his wife
• Cases of domestic violence
• Attempted kidnapping
• Characters getting Tumours
• Hangings
• Stabbing Rob In front of his son

DO NOW                                                           22nd January 2025

1. prison
2. BBC 
3. tv licence
4. more money is better 
5. 20+ 

                         Audience and industry research  

key conventions of a soap opera is dominant female characters and important topic like family issues and relationships and romantic betrayals.

 

BEN ARCHER:

•  born in 2002
• in a relationship with Beth Casey
• the youngest archer in the series
• lives at brookfield farm

LEONARD BERRY: 

• lives in borchester
• played by Paul Copley 
• likes to stay out late with jill
• likes old watches

JUSTION ELLIOT:   

• played by Simon williams
• lives in Dower house
• engaged to Lillian Bellamy
• managing director of Damara Capital

BERT HORROBIN: 

• played by Martyn Read
• has 6 kids
• likes a pint
• hates housework

DO NOW:                                                                                             29th January 2025

1.  6 million
2. 20+, farmers, middle class
3. saturday morning, omnibus on sunday morning
4. Demographics
5. To educate, to entertain, to inform

                        AUDIENCES AND U&G     

           

 

  EXPLAIN HOW THE BBC USES DIFFERENT PLATFORMS TO DISTRIBUTE RADIO PROGRAMMES. REFER TO THE ARCHERS TO SUPPORT YOUR POINTS.

The BBC uses various platforms such as radio, twitter and facebook, the Archers website (which features clips, episodes, character information, blogs and podcasts) is available on radio, DAB accessible, smart speakers, and phone apps like Spotify.

 It is played on the radio at 7pm daily repeated at 2pm the following day, the omnibus is on a Sunday morning so you do not have to watch every episode individually 

 The podcasts are easy to download and is able to be caught up for 30 days. The archers are promoted through social media like facebook, instagram and X. it can also be promoted by users, fan groups, and discussions. these reasons are why the Archers is the biggest and most successful radio show of all-time.

Personal identity- people that can relate to the topics, relate to some characters

Information- to help for topics like domestic violence, rural life, prison, slavery

Entertainment- storyline gripping, escape normal life

Social Interaction- through the fan pages, social media, #freehelen

   The audience for the Archers listen to it because they can relate to the show, it links to personal identity from uses of gratification to help people relate to the topics on the radio show or even relate to some of the characters from the Archers. Secondly, Information is used towards the audience to help them understand topics they have never experienced like slavery, domestic violence, prison and rural British life. The show engages the audience by using entertainment by making storylines worthy of watching or listening too and it can help their audience escape their normal life. Lastly, the show makes the audience appeal to their show through social interaction, people can hear about the show and get inspired to watch it by the shows fan pages or groups or even podcasts or other social media apps.

DO NOW                                                              5th February 2025

1. community, commercial, PSB
2.  PSB
3.  commercial
4. Local radio stations
5. BBC radio 4

                  Exam questions and responses.                         

Of-com regulates TV and radio.

Three types of radio types are Community, PSB, and commercial. PSB Stands for public service radio.

The difference between commercial and community is that commercial relies on advertising to make money. while PSB and community rely on licence fees.

 

The radio station the archers fits perfectly into the BBC remit 'to inform, to educate, to entertain', the radio type of the BBC is a PSB radio stations relying on licence fees to generate wealth and have a steady income. The Archers fit to informing because the topic of the archers which is farming, is a mature subject that people can get used to that are very mature. The Archers also informs people on sexual violence/ domestic violence like with the #FREEHELEN campaign and how much of a serious topic it is and how to alert people about it.  The archers is also set in real life events and the way that they present the serious topics.

The Archers links to The BBC remit part 'to educate' by making the show about something and set somewhere not many people would know or live in. it also is set in 1951 post war and farm life, Examples of this in the Archers are when they talk about domestic violence and farm life. it links to the BBC remit by educating the audience by talking about subjects not many people know about.

BBC radio 4 broadcasts the Archers.

The audience for the Archers are women aged 20-44 upper middle class. ABC1 female

Two ways that the archers is aimed at women is that the stories are over a long period of time and follow strong female characters. like joy

The audience of the Archers listen to the radio station because they can link the show to themselves using the uses of gratifications by using personal identity, the use of personal identity on the radio station because the stories or the settings or even the characters to themselves or their background or even personal hobbies that they like, Some examples they might link themselves to are,

DO NOW                                                            12th February 2025

1. 2
2. 1hr 30 mins
3. BBC radio 4
4. Licence fees
5. To educate, to entertain, to inform.