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Radio Facts

Created in the 20th Century, It’s the oldest broadcast medium that stills being relevant and has evolved with the technology.

Almost 90% of the adults tune the radio on a weekly basis, most of them tune the live radio (71%) younger audience spent less time (29%)

their revenue has increased since 2015 in a 1,4% to 519 million with national advertisement

In 2015 over 40% of radio listeners listened to the radio on digital devices

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BBC: A Public Service Broadcaster

A Public Service Broadcast is intended for pure public benefit rather than to serve commercial interests and their responsibilities are dictated by the state

All their intentions are Inform, Entertain and Educate

The BBC has 100% PBS remit
ITV has a much smaller PBS remit
Channel 4 has a large, but slightly different PBS remit
Channel 5 has a tiny PBS remit

OFCON is in charge of ensuring broadcasters keep their PBS remits

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BBC: A Public Service Broadcaster

Their main mission is to Inform, Entertain and Educate and their vision is to be the most creative organisation in the world.

They want to be Independent, Impartial and honest
Audience will always be the most important
Pride in delivering quality and value for money
Creativity
Celebrate our diversity so that everyone can give their best
Great things happen when we work together

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You will be analysing a whole episode of the breakfast show each and creating a timeline. For each of the following please highlight. At the end of your programme section you will analyse ethos, audience and how they are attracted.

You can find the episode here: Pupil shared/Media/Radio1/2022 22.2.22 episode

Follow the colour code below:

•Audience chat and what it’s about

•How it promotes British Music - British music tracks played

•Celebrity Interviews/Chat

•News Items

•Quizzes and Games

Answer the following using the whole episode to support your answers •How it fits into the BBC ethos of Informing, educating and entertaining •How is it different from commercial breakfast shows? •Which audience is being targeted and how? What does Greg James do to maintain his audience, give quite a few examples of conversation, games, humour, attitude etc, How does it follow its remit to promote British artists?

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Billy 00.00.00-00.26.24

TIMINGS OF EVENTS	WHAT’S HAPPENING
00.00.00-00.03.38	Intro/First conversation - talking about a massive bear in America(Hank the Tank)
00.03.39-00.07.09	Song - Hypersonic Missiles, Artist: Sam Fender (english)
00.07.10-00.10.42	Song - Oh my God, Artist: Adele (english)
00.10.43-00.12.30	Responds to some fan tweets/emails, a birthday message, spoke about Hank the Tank again
00.12.31- 00.15.36	Song - Tears in the Club, Artist: FKA Twigs (english) and The Weeknd (canadian)
00.15.37-00.20.21	Gets a lady on for a quiz, spoke about her past in shot put, she got 13 points
00.20.22-00.22.43	Song - War, Artist: Ardee X Aitch (both english)

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Billy 00.00.00-00.26.24

TIMINGS OF EVENTS	WHAT’S HAPPENING
00.23.44-00.24.13	Preview about Jordan North’s comic relief challenge - rowing backwards to Burnley - 100 miles
00.23.14-00.25.55	Song - 3 Nights, Artist: Dominic Fike (american)
00.25.56-00.26.00	Starts talking about quiz controversy, about the spelling of Margarita and cuts off

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Harry 26 mins-52 mins

TIMINGS OF EVENTS	WHAT'S HAPPENING
26:00-0:26:38	discussing what went on in the previous quiz game and the contestant which gave a controversial answer. discussed the quiz is next on tomorrow
0:26:38-0:29:16	song: fire boy DML and Ed Sheeran- Perú this is a song by popular british artist Ed Sheeran
0:29:17-0:33:12 7:30 am	sirius radio hard news, talks about War with russia and ukraine, flood warnings and champions league football. also a weather update
0:33:13-0:34:17	greg james discussing about jordan norths comic relief challenge and what songs are coming up.
0:34:18-0:40:40	song: george Ezra- anyone for you song: dua lipa and silk city- electricity
0:40:41-0:44:38	Greg james engaging with his audience asking them to whatsapp and answer to a question on the new spiderman film.
0:44:39-0:50:50	song: drake and lil durk- laugh now suck later song: belter only and Jazzy- make me feel good

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0:50:51-0:51:26	discussing the spider man fake bum story he did previously and the answers given, then links this to the jordan north comic relief
0:51:27-0:52:00	talks about florence and the machine new music that she hinted on her social media platforms saying the words “tomorrow”

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Tom- 52mins-1hr18mins

Time of events	Whats happening
52mins	george ezra talks about having chicken pox
53mins	old weather report- theresa manion
54mins	real love by clean bandit and jess glynne
57mins	Get into it by Doja Cat
1hr	news about the conflict between ukraine and russia
1hr 2mins	talks about chelsea winning the club world cup
1hr 3 mins	Jordan North gets introduced
1hr 6mins	sacrifice by the weeknd
1hr 9mins	lights up by harry styles

1hr 16mins	Jordan North is talking about doing browning and how difficult it is

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Emma 1:18:00 - 1:44:00

Timings	What's happening
1:18:00 - 1:20:00	Listening and talking about audiences recording to do with boats on the canal and speaking about their own personal experiences
1:20:00 - 1:23:52	Music: Stormzy - Big for your boots - British rapper
1:23:52 - 1:24:51	Greg James and Jordan North speak about Jordans challenge for comic relief: rowing home. They speak about borrowing Tom Daley's boat and spreading dog poop inside it.
1:24:51- 1:27:43	They begin to play audience recordings of their own personal “rubbish stories” which have to do with going on boats.
1:27:43 - 1:29:00	Music: Maren Moris (American singer), Grey (American electronic music duo), Zedd (Russian-German DJ) - The Middle
1:29:00 - 1:33:27	News talk - speaks about the war with russia, talking about ways which could cause russia to back down. They also speak about miscarriages in women, a university loans, schools teaching all ethnic groups, flood warnings following strom franklin, Oscars ceremony, and sports news - football and tennis, and finally weather.
1:33:27- 1:36:00	Introduction to Arianas song (Thankyou next) SZA (I hate you) and Central Cee Music: Central Cee - Retail therapy -british rapper
1:36:00 - 1:39:00	music: Ariana Grande - Thankyou next -american singer
1:39:00- 1:41:00	Music: sza - I hate you -american singer
1:41:00 - 1:44:00	Music - Foals - 2AM -British rock band

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Eve- 1hr 44mins-2hr 10 mins

Time	What’s happening
1hr 44 mins-1hr 45 mins	the song 2am by Foals
1 hr 46 mins- 1 hr 48 mins	advertising the peaky blinders series the final series
1 hr 51 mins- 1 hr 53 mins	after talking about dua lipa’s songs and making a joke about them he then plays new rules which is her song
1 hr 55 mins- 1 hr 57 mins	some audience talk including a comment someone in the audience made about a meme to do with dua lipa and the storm.
1 hr 57 mins- 2 hrs mins	the song is Everybody Going Crazy by Nothing But Thieves
2 hr mins- 2hr 3 mins	the ten minute takeover which allows the audience members to pick a song to play next.
2hr 3 mins- 2hr 6mins	the song whenever, wherever by shakira
2hr 7 mins- 2hr 10 mins	the song Netsky by Rio and Digital farm animals

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JD - (2h10 - 2h35)

Time	What’s Happening
2h10 - 2h13	Music
2h13 - 2h15	Music
2h15 - 2h18	Catfish and the Bottlemen - Long Shot - UK Band
2h18 - 2h20	Greg asks the audience to send him weird things you do to find if there is someone else who do the same. He will say the results the next day
2h20 - 2h24	Music
2h24 - 2h27	Music
2h27 - 2h30	Music
2h30 - 2h33	Latest global News. In this case focusing on the news about Ukraine and Russia and about new COVID restrictions
2h33 - 2h35	Wilkinson & Issey Cross - Used to this - UK Artist

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2h35- 3 Lucas

Time of Event	What’s Happening
2:35	the song used to this by Wilkinson & Issey Cross is played
2:38	the songRex Orange Country - KEEP IT UP
2:41	Tate McRae - she's all i wanna be
2:43	chat about balanced snacks at work based on
2:45	chat about viral Tik Tok trends (couples)
2:48	Lost Frequencies - Where are you now
2:50	interview/chat with matt from leicester

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2:52	Calvin Harris - Slide
2:56 - end	Dave -Location

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3-330 Eadie

Time	What’s happening
3:00:00-3:00:32	Dave, Bura Boy- Location
3:00:32-3:00:53	Announcement of upcoming schedule
3:00:53-3:03:14	Boyz N Da Club- Shermanology
3:03:14-3:03:17	Interlude
3:03:17-3:05:18	PinkPantheress- Reason
3:05:18-3:05:38	Interlude, announcements and time
3:05:38-3:08:27	GAYLE- abcdefu
3:08:27-3:09:30	DaftPunk promo
3:09:30-3:11:30	News
3:11:30-3:14:49	Tom Grennan- Found What I’ve Been Looking for

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3-3:30 Eadie

Time	What’s happening
3:14:49-3:15:28	Trillion Dollar Conman
3:15:28-3:17:40	BBC1 intro. Post Malone- Sunflower
3:17:40-3:19:36	Ricky Melvin and Charlie
3:19:36-3:23:47	Charlie XCX- Beg For You, commentating at the end about Sam Fender and the Brit Awards
3:23:47-3:26:08	Ben Hemsley- Love Peace and Harmony.
3:26:08-3:29:53	HAIM- Dont Wanna
3:29:53-3:30:01	Handover to next show