Radio Flashcards
BBC funding
Royal Charter ➡️ contract
Contract = remit
Educate, inform, entertain
DAB
‘Digital Audio Broadcasting”
Planet Rock
Magic
Brand identity
Informs their house style
•Target audience identified by its music
•Styles of talking
Internet has little impact
•Increase in downloading podcasts and streaming radio
•Archived shows on websites
•Webcams and social media connects radio to audience
•Media coverage achieved through blogs and forums on radio websites
Different to newspaper articles
•Commuters
•More slang
•Scheduling
•Live
•Traffic
•Passive listeners
•Revisits/repeats information
•Broader range of interviews
•More formal tone
•Audience has brand loyalty
‘Capital’
•Independent
•Music based
•Soft news
BBC Radio 4
•Hard news
•Older demographic
•Clear diction
BBC Radio Wales
•Welsh focused
•Welsh news
•Welsh accents
‘Today’ - Radio 4’s long-running early morning news/current affairs programme
•11.5 million weekly listeners
•6-9am weekdays (7-9am Saturdays)
•Investigative journalism
•Interrogates
•Star power, experts, politicians