BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat: Blog tasks
Newsbeat analysis
Use BBC Sounds to listen to Radio 1. Select a Newsbeat bulletin (8am or 12.45pm are good options) and then answer the following questions:
1) What news stories were featured in the bulletin you listened to?
increase of price in plane flights
women's football
France v wales 4-1
2) How does Newsbeat appeal to a youth audience?
focuses on current events and very softcore events
3) How might Newsbeat help fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster?
they entertaining with women's football and informing about ticket prices
Media Factsheet #246: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat
Read Factsheet #246 BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. You'll need your Greenford google login to access it. Answer the following questions:
1) How is the history and launch of Radio 1 summarised in the factsheet? If you studied this as part of GCSE Media you will already know much of this.
it was the only radio station that people in the UK could legally listen to. However, this monopoly was challenged in the 1960s when pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg started illegally transmitting commercial programming via ships in international waters and on land. Britain was undergoing a youth quake in ‘The Swinging Sixties’ and these stations provided a channel to the new counter-culture that was taking place. Tony Blackburn opened Radio 1 on 30th September 1967 at 7.00am, The station set out to emulate the new ‘DJ style’ of radio, heard only on the pirate radio stations. casting rules operated by the BBC, they seemed more exciting and interesting to the youth demographic.
It aims to entertain and engage young listeners with a distinctive mix of contemporary music and speech. The programmes showcase a wide range of new music styles and support emerging artists, in particular those from the UK; with at least 60 hours a week dedicated to specialist music programming. News, documentaries and other speech content focuses on areas of relevance to young adults
BBC Radio 1Xtra is Radio 1’s digital ‘sister’ station, shares some programmes and a similar passion for new music. The station has a particular focus on serving BAME (British English, Black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities, offering its young listeners programmes that span RnB, hip-hop, dancehall, drum & bass, and a range of other urban music genres. They also broadcast weekly documentaries under the ‘Radio 1 & 1Xtra’s Stories.’
3) What did young people used to get from radio? Focus on audience pleasures / Uses & Gratifications here (see top of second column on page 3).
• To connect themselves to popular culture products (identity). • To gain an insight into the world beyond their own experience: relationships, romance, politics (information and surveillance).
• To build para-social relationships with media personalities (both musicians and DJs) – create fandoms.
• For pure entertainment.
4) How has Radio 1 and Newsbeat in particular diversified its content for the digital age?
BBC Radio 1Xtra is Radio 1’s digital ‘sister’ station, shares some programmes and a similar passion for new music. The station has a particular focus on serving BAME (British English, Black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities, offering its young listeners programmes that span RnB, hip-hop, dancehall, drum & bass, and a range of other urban music genres. They also broadcast weekly documentaries under the ‘Radio 1 & 1Xtra’s Stories.’
5) How is Newsbeat constructed to appeal to audiences?
Radio 1 has diversified its content beyond the studio, from Live Lounge sessions to a Big Weekend of live music, its output is wide and diverse.
6) What are the three key ideas from David Hesmondhalgh and which apply to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
Cultural Industries are made to create profit.- Doesn't apply-The BBC is a PSB provider, free from commercial impulses. All profits go back into making more content for the people.
Content production is made by ‘symbol creators’. -Yes does apply to Newsbeat The diverse output of Radio 1 and Newsbeat is huge. Creators are governed by professional guidelines but they are also free to be creative to make products to excite youth audiences.
The internet has not challenged the centralised power of providers or allowed audiences to
challenge content - Yes
7) Now look at Curran and Seaton. What are their key ideas and can they be applied to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
The media is concentrated in the hands of powerful commercial media giants.-No cant be applied - PSB are supposed to hold power to account by offering impartial news which is not driven by economic and political ideology. Furthermore, the BBC is funded by the licence fee which is set at by the government. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has announced that the fee will remain at £159 until 2024,
Culture is controlled by social elites.-No dosent apply because The BBC has its remit written into The Royal Charter, which states that it must remain independent and that the mission of the BBC is to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain. This means it is diverse, different and caters for all,
8) What key idea for Livingstone and Lunt is on the factsheet and how does it link to the CSP?
Media can have a citizen based approach to regulation.- Yes - The BBC is an example of a citizen-based approach to regulation. Citizen-orientated regulation is concerned with content-based issues. Citizen-based regulation is a positive form if regulation that directs media content so that it can improve the lives of citizens and contribute the wider well-being of society. citizen-based regulation promotes forms of media that can hold powerful groups to account.
9) How can we apply Stuart Hall's Reception theory to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
Media producers encode media products in a way that they think will appeal
to them. This is not always successful.-Yes - The BBC tries to appeal to young people with its content, but it faces competition from other platforms that appear to be catering for them in a better, more appealing way.
10) Choose one other audience theory on the factsheet and explain how it links to Radio 1 Newsbeat.
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Audiences select media products in an active way, for various reasons.-Yes - Newsbeat could satisfy the need for information and surveillance. Radio 1 has many aspects of entertainment.
Industry contexts: reading and research
1) Pick out three key points in the 'Summary' section.
The BBC is the UK’s most widely-used media organization, providing programming on
television and radio and content online.
The public has exceptionally high expectations of
the BBC, shaped by its role as a publicly-funded broadcaster with a remit to inform,
educate and entertain the public,
To meet these expectations, the BBC must deliver the mission and public purposes set out
in its new Royal Charter (the Charter). For the first time, the BBC will be robustly held to
account for doing so by an independent, external regulator.
2) Now read what the license framework will seek to do (letters a-h). Which of these points could we relate to BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat?
H) Require the BBC to reflect the full diversity of the UK population
Support a wide range of valued genres.
Safeguard vulnerable genres such as arts, music and religious programmes.
3) Which do you think are the three most important aspects in the a-h list? Why?
Require the BBC to reflect the full diversity of the UK population- so they understand their audience
Support a wide range of valued genres.- to entertain and inform
Safeguard vulnerable genres such as arts, music and religious programmes.- educate
4) Read point 1.9: What do Ofcom plan to review in terms of diversity and audience?
how different audiences are represented
and portrayed on the BBC
5) Based on your reading and research, do you think BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat offers licence fee payers good value for money?
yes as they get multiple daily remits and they talk about a variety of relevant topics and sometimes bring up less know topics
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