Radio broadcasting involves transmitting audio data using radio waves to communicate information to the public. The BBC operates numerous national and local radio stations in the UK that cover a wide variety of genres. BBC radio stations are funded through television license fees paid by UK households rather than through advertisements. This allows the BBC to produce more specialized programming. The license fee also funds the BBC's domestic television and internet services.
2. WHAT IS RADIO BROADCASTING?
Radio broadcasting includes many technologies that combine
to form a technique of one way transmission of audio data. This
is used to communicate information by radio for public or
widespread use. It’s a form of communication that helps to
spread news to many spectators from different locations at the
same time.
3. PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
BBC Audio & Music is a share of the British Broadcasting
Corporation. The service offers national radio stations covers most of
the musical genres, as well as local radio stations .
The national radio stations, BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live are all
accessible through analogue radio (5 Live on AM only) then on DAB
Digital Radio and internet services through Real Media, WMA and
BBC IPlayer. The other stations, BBC Radio 1Xtra, 4 Extra, 5 Live
Sports Extra and 6 Music, all program on digital platforms only.
Majority of the BBC's national radio stations, with the exception of
BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra who broadcast
from Media City UK in Salford, broadcast from bases in London
However, radio programs are also made in the BBC's network
production units located in other cities around the UK.
4. BBC NATIONAL RADIO STATIONS
BBC Radio 1 – popular music aimed at a young audience
BBC Radio 1Xtra – hip hop, garage, RnB, drum & bass & dancehall,
aimed at a young audience
BBC Radio 2 – adult-orientated popular music
BBC Radio 3 – classical, jazz and world music, culture, drama
BBC Radio 4 – spoken-word programmes
BBC Radio 4 Extra – archive comedy, drama and children's
programming, formerly known as Radio 7
BBC Radio 5 Live – news and sport
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra - sport, used as an overflow station
when 5 Live is broadcasting live sport at the same time
BBC Radio 6 Music – rock, funk, alternative
BBC Asian Network – Indian and British content aimed at British
Asians (some areas on analogue, nationwide on digital)
5. BBC DIGITAL RADIO STATIONS
Platforms: Internet Streaming/Sky/free sat/Freeview/DAB) radio
stations are:
BBC Radio 1Xtra: new urban music, plus news, original in-house live
music sessions, original live music concerts and music
documentaries
BBC Radio 4 Extra: classic comedy, drama, books, science fiction,
fantasy and children's programs
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: a companion to Radio 5 Live for
additional sports events coverage
BBC Radio 6 Music: an eclectic mix of alternative genres including
rock, funk, punk and reggae, plus news, original in-house live music
sessions, original live music concerts and music documentaries
BBC Asian Network: aimed at the large South Asian community in the
UK (primarily a digital radio station, but available in parts of the
Midlands on medium wave)
6. BBC WORLD SERVICE RADIO STATIONS
BBC WORLD SERVICE
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international
broadcaster, broadcasting news, speech and discussions in 28
languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital
shortwave platforms, internet streaming, pod casting, satellite, FM
and MW relays. The World Service was reported to have reached 188
million people a week on average in June 2009.It does not carry
advertising, and the English language service broadcasts 24 hours a
day.
The World Service is currently funded by grant-in-aid through the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British Government,
however from 2014, it will be funded by the compulsory television
license fee levied on every household in the United Kingdom using a
television to watch broadcast programmes.
7. BBC REGIONAL RADIO STATIONS
BBC Radio Scotland
BBC Radio nan Gàidheal – Scottish Gaelic language
BBC Radio Shetland – Scotland (Shetland)
BBC Radio Orkney – Scotland (Orkney)
BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Cymru – Welsh language
BBC Radio Ulster – Northern Ireland
BBC Radio Foyle – Northern Ireland (Londonderry)
BBC Local Radio is the BBC's regional radio service for England and the Channel
Islands, consisting of 40 stations. They cover a variety of areas with some serving
a city and surrounding areas, for example BBC Radio Manchester; a county, for
example BBC Radio Norfolk; an administrative region for example BBC WM; or a
larger region entirely for example BBC Radio Solent.
The stations were launched progressively starting with BBC Radio Leicester on 8
November 1967 with the last station to launch being the ill fated BBC Dorset FM
on 26 April 1993. Since then, numerous local radio stations have been merged
and renamed, however no new stations have been created where no service
previously existed.
8. THE LICENCE FEE
The license fee is used nearly entirely to fund the BBC's
domestic radio, television and internet services.
The money received from the fee signifies approximately
75% of the cost of these services with most of the rest
coming from the profits of BBC Worldwide — a
commercial wing of the corporation which sells
programmes and runs stations overseas (such as BBC
World News), other than business associated to
broadcasting for example, publishing.
Television license is required for each household where
television programmes are watched while they are
broadcast.
9. ADVANTAGES OF BEING FUNDED BY THE
LICENSE FEE
license fee funding will be a advantage to the
World Service, the wider BBC, and the British
people. BBC’s license fee funding is grounded on
multi-year payments, the present funding
preparation lasting until 2017.
The BBC does not have to depend on advertisers
to fund it, it can create more specialty and minority
programming. commercial stations these sorts of
programmes might not get a enough audience, so
advertisers would not want to give the station
money.
10. WHAT ELSE THE BBC OWNS?
They own sister companies such as BBC films,
BBC radio 1extra and so on as well as digital
channels BBC 3, BBC 4 which are designed to
appeal to a different audience.
11. WHAT INDUSTRY IS IT LINKED TO?
the radio industry is linked to the interactive
media industries as they use their Facebook
website or twitter account to gain followers.
