Industry- Radio

Industry- Radio 

The BBC

• Founded 95 years ago (October 18, 1922)
• Founder: John Reith
• BBC stands for ‘The British Corporation’
• The BBC is watched/listened by 96% of UK population
• Radio, TV and online programmes are available in 28 languages other than English
• It is Europe’s biggest provider of media and creative skills training
• 1 in 16 adults (worldwide) use BBC news
• The BBC license fee costs £145.50 a year (40p a day). It includes 4 TV channels, 10 national radio stations, network of local radio stations, internationally-acclaimed website, BBC parliament, world service, S4C, BBC monitoring and 5 orchestras and choirs.
• The broadcaster receives £3.7 billion a year
• Spends 76% of its fee income on TV content (more than any other broadcaster) (SKY only spends 34%)
• Headquarters are in London

Late night Womans hour

• spin off from the long running BBC radio 4 daily magazine program (wide variety of subjects of human interests) woman hour 
• broadcast once a month, presented by Lauren Laverne features a number of female panellists
• each episodes focuses on a particular theme relevant to its female audiences
• broadcast on radio 4 (aimed at a middle aged audience)  at 11pm 

CATCH UP - DIGITAL ENCODED RECORDING 

 first broadcast on 7 October 1946 on the BBC's Light Programme (now called Radio 2)

Friday 28th October 2016 HOME

four panelists, all female, all academics/ artists, multi cultural 

discussing a single topic- going on mini tangens 

set up being one leader askes question while the others jump in on the conversation 

Lexis is professional and complex meaning audience needs to be educated 

It is assumed audience is up to date on current issues 

auindce age rand maybe 20-60

making cultural references eg. Game of Thrones, Instagram  

discusses slightly more taboo and honest subjects for the older female generation (divorce, children, international relations, marriage, war) 

always focus on WOMEN!

"i only have 20 books" shocker 

a friendly voice for a female listenership 

aiming for styetypival 'house wives' or female pursuits eg. crafts and child care

gives the audience comfort and relatable material 

aspirational 

challenging piratical hegenemy during the war period- femeisum references 

adopts an informal mode of address 

egalitarian (equality) 

femenetic moments- learned experience- no greater expect on women but women 

targets a very specific audience (niche) 

Pluraily (range of diffrent ideologies)

middle class as fuck talking about mugs

show is sexless 

• when first started was presented by too men 
• 2013 the show was accused of being sexist against men 
• been criticised as being too middle class 
• 3.7 mil listeners 
• quater of viewers are under 35 

HOW HAVE SOCIOHISTORICAL FACTORS LEAD TO A DIVERSICATION OF MEDIA OUTPUT? 

DIVERSICATION- presents lots of diffrent things eg BBC presents many types and genre of shows 

TO WHAT EXTENT IS THIS INFLUNCED BY ECONOMIC FACTORS?

late night womans hour exists because the BBC have to put on a range of programs to met the needs of the people 

DIGITAL CONVERGENCE!!!!!!!

It is still possible to listen to radio the old fashioned way (live through radio waves) 

IPlayer offers audiences an immersive experience eg. going straight to the next episode

You can access IPlayer on any device eg. you can buy TVs with it installed

-this makes TV practically computers and not used for live streaming as much (terrestrial)  

IPlayer has an attractive UI (thumb nail, layeout of pictures on website) 

Advantage of digital plateform allows audiences to share eg. the hashtag LNWH 

There is a democratisation of the media

Audio streaming (traditional)  

Digital Audio Broadcast 

Podcast 

Cross platform (appealing to a modern audience) 

REGULATION

TV/ film- BBFC

news papers- IPSO

under OFCOM

broadcast after the 9pm watershed 

regulation of tv and radio in the UK is ineffective 

programs can be accessed by anyone, any time 

LOCALNESS 

Legistartion requires ofcom to secure that local commercial radio stations provide us an appropriate amount of: programs including local material, locally made programs 

(not appropriate for woman hour) 

relevant with tv eg. news

How could we talk about regulation with woman hour?

mention of brands- cannot advertise 'a popular bookstore' does not state name of company (Amazon) 

The BBC has a remit of a range of shows giving the audience an experince of plurality and a wide range of viewpoints/perspectives 

BBC = public service broadcast 

we expect it to be there just as much as the Police, hospitals ect

has its urself imposed remit = to inform, educate and entertain

does womans hour offer plurality?

yes it is one single show that has all woman hosts 

40% of the listenership is men 
over 3mil a month listeners 

Female mode of address for female audiences 

does not harm or offend the audience in any way 

Curran and Seaton argue the media industries are owned by minimal companies driven by profit and power therefore limiting variety and creativity 

(LNWH only broadcast once a month)

LNWH demonstrates a clear left wing bias