Radio #1.

Radio BBC research task.

⦁ How old is the BBC?
18 October 1922, it's 96 years old.

⦁ Who is Lord Reith and what connection does he have with the BBC?

1. He was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
2. Was the founder of the BBC.
3. Was its first general manager in 1922.
4.  First director general when it became a public corporation in 1927.
5. Reith fought off the politicians' attempts to influence the BBC, while offering the British people programmes to educate, inform and entertain.

⦁ When did it start broadcasting Radio 1?
30 September 1967.  Its daytime playlist-based programming specialises in current popular music and chart hits, however the DJs could also play hits from the recent past or potential future hits if they wish.

⦁ What are the BBC’s five Public Purposes, as set out in the Royal Charter?

1. These purposes outline the values the BBC holds when striving to achieve its mission to inform, educate and entertain.
2. To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them
3. To support learning for people of all ages
4. To show the most creative, highest quality and distinctive output and services
5. To reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom’s nations and regions and, in doing so, support the creative economy across the United Kingdom
6. To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world

⦁ What is the BBC’s Mission?
to inform, educate and entertain.

⦁ What is the BBC’s Vision?
 the biggest integrated multimedia broadcast and production group of its kind in the world, launched today with a mission to create great programmes for audiences in the rapidly changing digital world.

⦁ What are the BBC’s Values?
They are independent, impartial and honest. They care about their audience. They also take pride in delivering quality and value for money and also respect each other and celebrate our diversity so that everyone can give their best.

⦁ What does the licence fee cover?  
The current fee is £150.50 for a colour licence and £50.50 for a black and white licence. The licence is free if you are 75 or over, and half-price if you are registered blind.

⦁ How is the BBC regulated?  How long as this body regulated the BBC and who regulated it before?  
The BBC is regulated by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the European Commission, and Ofcom. Ofcom also regulates some other aspects of the BBC, for example the BBC is covered by Ofcom's Fairness Code. Ofcom is the UK's communications regulator.

New Topic. - History of Magazines and key terms.

Magazines first appeared in the UK in the 18th century (1700s.)
This was the first magazine in the UK.

It was not until the late 19th century / early 20th century that the mass media started to take off, with wide access to magazines and newspapers, which were easy to buy, and affordable.

This pre-dates radio and television (and later, the internet) as a mass form of communication, which allowed the media to speak to huge numbers of audiences.

Several of these early magazines still exist today, such as “Vanity Fair”

compared to today: 

• Any similarities / differences?

similarities: front cover, masthead, bottom text,

differences: the front cover is different, modern day has a model front cover, whereas the 1896 does not have a model as its front cover.

• Early conventions adopted?

• Representations?

Modern is more diverse, 1896 is not as diverse.

• Historical, social context

Types of magazines

Types / genres of magazines

• Lifestyle
• Hobbies: including gaming; technology; cars; sewing
• Sports
• Health and fitness
• Celebrities and entertainment
• Children’s
• Women’s magazines
• Men’s magazines
• Politics
• Literature
• Science and Nature
• Parenting

• Magazines lose on average 4% of circulation every year.

• Only 60 of 422 titles audited in 2015 grew in sales.

• Price-cuts and give-away copies help Cosmopolitan lead

growth in women's fashion and lifestyle titles

• In the UK, there are approximately 8000 magazine titles.

• TV Choice is the UK’s biggest selling title at 50p.

• The Radio Times costs £1.80 and claims to be the best.

key terms you HAVE to know

circulation number of copies a magazine sells

readership not just who buys a magazine but the total number of people likely to read it

mass audience readership on a very large scale

niche audience narrow group of readers with a particular interest

subscription where a reader pays for a set number of copies of a magazine in advance at a lower price and receives them by post

circulation number of copies a magazine sells

readership not just who buys a magazine but the total number of people likely to read it

mass audience readership on a very large scale

niche audience narrow group of readers with a particular interest

subscription where a reader pays for a set number of copies of a magazine in advance at a lower price and receives them by post.

Magazine distributions;

• consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. 
• Subsidiary
• International
• Rebranded into Time Inc.
• Formerly IPC media.
• American
• Newspapers
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• European-based media company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world
• Publish magazines like Grazier, Empire

• Felix Dennis started in the magazine business in the late 1960s as one of the editors of the counterculture magazine OZ.
• Limited company -  the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company, Limited companies may be limited by shares or by guarantee.

1. The INCOME for a magazine comes from both sales and advertising.  On average, advertising accounts for 70% of magazine income.
2. A magazine with a small CIRCULATION is more dependent on advertising than one with a large circulation.