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M2 - LO4 Investigating technologies for multiplatform radio broadcasting

 

Explain the processes and technologies involved in producing a radio broadcast

In this picture of the right, I can see a workstation and a mixing desk in the sound room. This is the BBC Radio 4 studio where you can see a radio show is going on in the background in the other room, behind the glass. The workstation is mainly used for the playout system but is also very useful for monitoring, audio logging, file sharing and other things as well. A mixing desk is useful because it controls the various programme sources and puts their audios together. In the other room there is more equipment such as headphones and microphones. The microphones are used to record the audio for the radio programme while the people wear the headphones so that they can hear themselves or their colleagues while recording.

A digital cartwall is a jingle player that’s easy to use that provides multiple pages of instant audio buttons ready for quick playback or loading in a jingle. A digital cartwell is software that is used to put different sound effects or jingles into the radio show or radio stream. For example in a radio show the digital cartwell can be used to implement the main theme song or a quick chime. Many different people in the radio show, for example people behind the glass mirror like the producers or people can use a digital cartwell like the hosts or presenters can use them, as they will know the timing more accurately for different jingles. The digital cartwell is used on the computer so the sound engineers can add all the jingles that are needed and can play them throughout or the producers can play them whenever needed.

A playlist is a list of songs chosen for the day’s programme where they will have to fit those certain amount of songs within a limited time - the duration of their programme.  In this screenshot on the right you can see the playlist of songs that are most commonly used throughout the entirety of the BBC Radio 4. This playlist was found on the website “media.info” these are probably the most popular songs whenever that playlist was released. BBC does this to then attract more people, so then more people listen to the radio shows. These songs can be listened to on Spotify, which then people recognise the songs on the radio shows and then listen to the radio shows which increases the listening figures for BBC Radio 4. This is a smart strategy from BBC Radio 4 which can increase how many people listen to the radio shows.

 

In this picture on the right is a digital playout system in a BBC radio 4 studio where they record the radio drama “The Archers”. A digital playout system is an automation and play-out system, including the video & TS capture, editing, storage and management, query
, broadcasting and supervision functions, which helps operators to manage plenty of programs more effectively. BBC radio 4 uses these playout systems to broadcast their radio shows, these use these to put on air or off air different shows. The playout systems are very useful to lower latency and timing to be the quickest possible, so that the show is live and there is no delay between the real life talking of the show and when it is listened to on the radio.

P3 LO4 Investigating technologies for multiplatform radio broadcasting

M1 LO3 Exploring Media Products - Programme Analysis -The Archers

 

The Archers

The Archers is a soap opera radio drama, that releases every day at 2pm and at 7pm except for Sunday’s. On Sundays the Archers release an omnibus which is the summary of all the episodes that week into a 1-hour long episode. The episodes that are released everyday are no longer than 13 minutes. The audience of this radio show are most popularly white elderly women who are over the age of 50, and who live in England. The most popular people watch the Archer is on the BBC website or on BBC sounds. You can also watch this radio show through Spotify and TuneIn on your mobile device.

The show starts off with the presenter introducing the show then the theme song plays and then cuts straight into the scenes where the dramas play out. The scenes have some drama for example the electricians, but the scenes also do cut the other scenes and to different storylines.

With the BBC remit the purpose of this radio show is for entertainment and for education. As the main purpose being entertainment for the audience listening to it. But the education side would be with what factual things the characters say for example about cleaning and farming etc.

Episode: 29/01/2024

The content of the show is that it starts off with dialogue where the host Roifield Brown introduces the show and says where the audience is watching it on. Then a theme tune starts playing a jolly theme tune for about 20 seconds then straight away cuts into a scene. The scene was about two people cleaning and talking about electricians who aren’t doing their job quick enough because if they don’t someone’s show won’t go on. Another person enters the scene asking about the electricians, and asking to pass on a message to the person who’s the show was, to tell them that they can’t be a model anymore. And the two ladies won’t tell the show owner the guy’s message because they don’t want to get on her bad side so they tell him that he has to tell her by himself and then he shouts “Oh BLIMEY” as he is frustrated and knows that the woman will kill him. The scene then changes to a man and a woman in the pub talking about how, apart, from the electrics they will be able to start the pub back up, then changes to another scene of the same man and woman coming outside to see the two women from the start of the episode washing the woman’s car. One of the women is trying to splash the other with water saying that she hasn’t helped her and we hear her do so because of the sound of laughter and splashing noises assuming that the water is being thrown around. The two then get told that they will be able to open up the pub again and we can physically hear a sound of joy, making the audience listening at home feel happy for the pub workers as they eagerly say that they will go home and put on their work clothes while also spreading the word that the pub is opening again. After this display of joy, we then have a time jump, where we are now in the pub. We hear them talking about how they’re going to take the empty glasses out back and they then start discussing how they should announce the winner of the drinking competition, one of the men asks everyone to be quiet where he then promptly announces the winner. This ends the episode and it is then followed out by the end music which slowly fades away. Throughout the episode there are no breaks and no more narration other than the announcement at the very start, this gives the episode a more of a flow, where people can listen to 13 minutes about everything that is happening without any breaks and distractions, just a whole storyline for 13 minutes.

 

There are some meanings created by the programme but not many. There are some dramatisations, with all the sound effects of something clattering down or something doing something. It also is the background noise of what happens, so if it is windy if their outside or if its raining, or if there is shouting etc. The programme uses sound to give the effect that the audience listening is inside of the show and is with the characters in the scene.

The mode of address from the presenter the Host was the mild tone to introduce the radio show and announce what station the audience was listening on. The actors in different situations have different modes of address it just depends on what happens at that moment in time. So if someone was having a conversation with someone about something it was just be a normal conversation with normal address, no shouting etc, but if on the otherhand something has happened or someone did something bad there could be some shouting or some arguing, but in all actual fact there is usually the same form of address where everyone address everyone respectfully.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Archers characters

A selection of major characters from The Archers.

·         Archers - Brookfield Farm branch

Jill Archer

Played by Patricia Greene

 

Leonard Berry

Played by Paul Copley

 

Ruth Archer

Played by Felicity Finch

 

David Archer

Played by Timothy Bentinck

 

Pip Archer

Played by Daisy Badger

 

Josh Archer

Played by Angus Imrie

 

Ben Archer

Played by Ben Norris.

 

 

·         The Dower House

Justin Elliott

Played by Simon Williams

 

Lilian Bellamy

Played by Sunny Ormonde

 

 

·         The Franks

Alan Franks

Played by John Telfer

 

Amy Franks

Played by Jennifer Daley

 

Usha Franks

Played by Souad Faress

 

 

·         Archers - Bridge Farm branch

Tony Archer

Played by David Troughton

 

Pat Archer

Played by Patricia Gallimore

 

Helen Archer

Played by Louiza Patikas

 

Tom Archer

Played by William Troughton

 

Lee Bryce

Played by Ryan Early

 

 

Natasha Archer

Played by Mali Harries

 

Johnny Phillips

Played by Tom Gibbons

 

Henry Archer

Jack Archer

 

Peggy Woolley

Played by June Spencer

P2-LO2-Investigating the audience profile for BBC Radio 4

P1-LO1-Types of operation

 

Radio Industry Operations	Definition	Examples of Stations	Ethos and Purpose	Funding / Revenue Streams	Typical Content	Reach/ Size
National commercial	A station that generates revenue through advertising and sponsorship that is not owned by the state	Classic PM talkSPORT	Profit	Advertisement Sponsorship	Music News  Weather Talking	As of September 2023, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 3 million listeners, according to  "RAJAR".
Public	Public Broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.	BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 2	Inform, Educate and Entertain	Licences	Music News Weather Talking	According to RAJAR, the figures for quarter 4 2021 highlight how audiences value BBC Radio with 34.51m people tuning in each week for live output across the stations
Regional	They originate programmes in the regional languages and dialect. Regional channels are located in the major linguistic-cultural region of every state.	BBC England BBC Scotland	Providing, critical, information, empowering, marginalized, groups and, addressing, their issues and concerns	Advertising	Music News Talking	2.3 million people tune into BBC Local Radio, but no other BBC station (34% of listeners)
Community	Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience.	10 Radio 1055 the Point   Fun kids radio	A space for people to make radio in their own way, talk about meaningful issues in their lives and connect with others through respectful discussion.	Crowd funding	Music Talk Gossip News	500,000 kids and parents listen to Fun Kids each week.
Internet	Internet radio is a digital audio service transmitted via the internet.	Reprezent Radio Cinemix   Boom Radio	To communicate and easily spread messages through the form of talk	Advertising Crowd funding Sponsorships	Music Podcasts News Talk Sport	Boom Radio total listening has grown to 5.82m hours.
Non-profit	A non profit radio station means that any profits generated by the community radio station cannot be given to shareholders	College Radio Desi radio	To not earn money	N/A	Music Sport Local events Charity appeals	The estimated total number of listeners of Desi Radio was 133,093

 

Differences between different types of programmes

Current Events

5 Live Breakfast is a radio programme on BBC Radio 5 Live. It first airs in the morning at 6am. It is hosted by two people, Rick Edward and Jeanette Kwakye. On this radio show they talk about many different things. They present stories on what’s going on in the UK, this includes the biggest headlines sport and other lifestyle news. This radio show is very useful to people who don’t have time to watch the news or if they have to get to work really early so, they can listen to it in the car. This show then ends at 9am when another show starts.

 

Talk/Music

Gordan Smart is a radio show that airs at around 10pm a couple times a week. In this programme Gordan has late night conversation and in-depth interviews. Gordan has conversations with whoever wants to join the programme by texting to a number, that is one of the conventions of this type of show. This radio show is on BBC Radio 5 Live, which is a late-night show. It is also one of the last aired shows before the day ends.

 

Sport

Radio 5 Sports Extra is a Radio station which has a lot of sports shows, one of them being the cricket. Live ball-by-ball commentary of Australia vs West Indies in the 3^rd One Day International. This is a sport show that is aired extremely early in the morning because of the times zones. These commentaries happen all the time when there is a game on so the schedule of these shows depends on the schedule of the cricket games.

Lifestyle

In lifestyle of shows, there is a radio show called the Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists which is on BBC Radio 4. There are two episodes of his show. Ben Goldacre is the host of his show and he explores our past and present fascination with nutrition and lifestyle. He also obtains facts about the relationship between diet and health.

 

Dramatisaitons

Archers is a drama show on BBC Radio 4. This is a radio soap opera about farming and family businesses. The show has been running for about 65 years, and it based in England in the Midlands. This show has 6 episodes a week and every Sunday it has a one hour long omnibus.

 

Comparison of the presentations of programmes

There are a lot of differences between The Archers which is a drama show and the 5 Live Breakfast radio programme. One of the bug differences is that the Archers is a dramatization while on the other hand 5 live Breakfast is a current event type of radio show. These two shows are completely different in their structure, how they present the show and the content of it. The Archers show has a lot of storyline and only at the start there is a couple seconds where the host presents the show, while in the 5 Live Breakfast radio show the presenters and hosts talk all the time and have different conversations about what’s going on in the world right now. These two shows have very different styles. The Archers can have different modes of addresses depending on what type of scene is going on in the show at that moment in time and the dialect could be different depending on who is speaking. While 5 Live Breakfast has a more of a informative mode of address towards the audience and to each other (the presenters). They can also have a more serious tone depending on what they are talking about, if its more serious, and if it’s dangerous. But 5 live Breakfast could also be biased because it is a government show like all the news channels and how there was a conspiracy of how all the news channels say the same exact stuff because the government gives them all the same exact information. While Archers could not be biased as it is dramatization story and its all fiction, but it also could be biased if they talk about current life situations, how they spoke about the queen’s death. That’s could how a little bias.