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.