Radio in the

UK
Mo Miah
 national radio
BBC National Radio is a type of radio that is broadcasted
nationally across the UK.
BBC Broadcast all over the UK , this means that anyone in the country can
listen to it at any time.
BBC stands ‘British Broadcasting Corporation’ its main responsibility is to
provide impartial public service broadcasting in the UK, Channel Islands and
Isle of Man. BBC is a public corporation of the Department for Digital,
Culture, Media & Sport.
The license fee is £159.
Due to the licence fee, BBC programs have no advertisements.
Cater for a range of audience over the united kingdom
 local and regional
BBC Local Radio (also referred to as Local BBC Radio) is the BBC's local and regional
radio division for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of forty stations.
Compared to regional stations, BBC local radio stations cover a smaller geographic area.
BBC radio Manchester and BBC radio Merseyside are two examples of local radio stations.
There are numerous regional radio stations, such as Radio Cymru, Radio Derby, Radio
Cumbria, and Radio Berkshire.
The difference between regional and local radio is that regional radio serves an audience of
a large geographical area like a whole country or county. Local radio serves a smaller
targeted audience of a local city or town.
National commercial radio
National commercial radio is another sort of radio that differs
from the BBC in terms of finances and management. Through
sponsorships and commercials.
The radio stations can broadcast whatever they want because
they are able to independently fund themselves rather than rely
on the general public.

Typically, large, corporate companies like Global are the owners

of the vast majority of national commercial radio stations.
Local commercial radio stations

• Aimed at local communities as it is aimed to the local community rather

than a wide variety of people across the UK.
• These stations are usually owned by bigger radio stations. Local radio
stations are funded through advertisements and sponsorships
Ran through advertisements and sponsorships.
Community radio
Community Radio refers to a system of licensing small, micro-local, non-profit
radio stations. In its early days, the pilot scheme was known as Access
Radio.

The staff such as presenters and technical team will likely be working
voluntary and are working for free.

The purpose of the community radio is to serve smaller communities

discussing things like local issues and affairs.
Target Audience
Target audience is a particular group at which a product such as a film or
advertisement is aimed.

All products have a target audience however this doesn’t mean that people
who aren’t a part of the target audience can't enjoy the product themselves.
Scheduling
• Scheduling affects the content of a programme.
For example, the content of a breakfast radio show could potentially have a
younger audience listening. However, scheduling late at night younger
audiences may be asleep and the content will change.
Investigation of BBC Radio 1
Radio Station

BBC Radio One is a national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. BBC
Radio One was founded and first aired on 30th September 1967. The type of
music it specialises in airing is modern popular music and the current chart hits
throughout that day. Tony Blackburn, a well-known, popular disc jockey who was
first heard on Radio Caroline and Radio London was the first DJ for BBC Radio
One.
DJs
BBC Radio One has seen vast amounts of DJ presenters over the
decades and still does to this present day and era. During its
founding year of 1967, BBC Radio One saw a handful of DJ’s to
present on a regular basis such as; Tony Blackburn, Jimmy Young,
Kenny Everett, Duncan Johnson, Robin Scott, David Ryder, Dave
Cash, Pete Brady and David Symmonds. To this present day, the
size of the BBC Radio One DJ’s has grown considerably large over
the years with well-known presenters such as Zoe Ball, Vernon
Kay, Sara Cox, Scott Mills, Chris Stark and Clara Amfo.
Programme Types

BBC Radio One has a planned schedule daily to air to their audiences who are tuning in throughout different times of
the
day.
BBC Radio One includes programmes which specifically air in the morning, afternoon, evening and late night.
The programmes they have on offer are;
• Radio 1’s Wind Down Presents
• Radio 1 Relax
• Radio 1’s Movie Mixtapes
• Radio 1 Breakfast with Arielle Free
• Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
• Radio 1 Newsbeat
• Anne Nightingale Presents
• Radio 1’s Future Sounds with Clara Amfo
Genres of music
BBC Radio 1 specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits
throughout the day. They also do different genres of music at night including:
Electronica, dance, hip hop and indie.
Audience Profile

The BBC Radio 1 target audience is 15-29 years old, and the average age
of its UK audience since 2009 is 30 years old.
Listening figures

BBC Radio 1 is ranked second and third with close to ten million listeners
and 9.8 million listeners per week, respectively in 2022.
EXPLORING BBC RADIO ONE BREAKFAST
SHOW
 DJ’s/Presenters

Over the years, there have been many presenters for the BBC Radio One
Breakfast show. Tony Blackburn was the first presenter of the BBC Radio
One breakfast show when it launched in 1967. Tony Blackburn worked on
the Radio 1 Breakfast Show for over six years before leaving on September
23, 1984. Many DJs followed Tony Blackburn in taking over the role of
hosting the breakfast programmes, including Mike Read, Nick Grimshaw,
and Simon Mayo, who did so for more than five years. Since taking over for
Nick Grimshaw in 2018, Greg James has been hosting the Radio 1
Breakfast Show ever since.
Crew

The producers of the Radio 1 Breakfast show are

Daisy Jarrett April 2022-Present

Will Foster August 2018- Present
Chris Sawyer January 2009- Present

They also have another crew who work behind the scenes to make sure the
show runs smoothly and is working good.
Content of his show

The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Greg James includes a variety of popular
music aired, interviews with alot famous people and also Greg James goes
over recent news coverage for people to listen to.
Greg James also plays quizzes’ and games that the audience can
participate in to make the morning more fun and interesting and for people to
have a laugh.
Target Audience

The Radio 1 Breakfast Show is targeted towards 15-29 years of age.

The reason why this is the current target audience is to entertain and
engage a broad range of young listeners with a distinctive mix of
contemporary music and speech.
Scheduling

The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast show with Greg James starts airing at 7:00AM
and stops at 10:30AM, after the breakfast show Radio 1 Newsbeat is aired.
Then Rickie, Melvin and Charlie is aired 10:32. After a break, Newsbeat is
aired again 12:45, Dean and Vicky is aired 13:00, Newsbeat is aired 15:30,
going home with Vick and Jordan aired at 15:32, Newsbeat is 17:45, 18:00
is radio 1’s Future sounds with Clara amfo, 20:00 Radio 1’s Future artists
with Jack Saunders, 22:00 Radio 1’s Essential Albums and the last for the
day is 23:00 Annie Nightingale Presents…
Investigation of Radio X breakfast show

Radio Station

Radio X became a rebranded version of the former radio station of

Xfm on the 21st September 2015. The radio station specialises in
comedy and chatting. The genre of music they tend to air is a focus on
indie rock music
DJ, Presenters and Crew
There are many DJs and presenters, these are the current
members of Radio X:

• Chris Moyles - host (2015–present)

• Dominic Byrne - newsreader and regular contributor
(2015–present)
• Pippa Taylor - executive producer/producer and regular contributor
(2015–present)
• James Robinson - producer and regular contributor
(2017–present)
• Toby Tarrant - Radio X DJ, regular cover presenter and regular
contributor (2017–present)
• Sam Owen - video producer and contributor (2019–present)
• Harry Diffey - regular contributor (2022–present)
• Chris Longman - Sound designer and contributor (2022–present)

The former members of Radio X are:

• Matt Parkes-Smith - audio producer and regular contributor
(2015–2022)
• Alfie Butler - video producer and contributor (2016–2019)
• Karl Russell - video producer and contributor (2015–2016)
• Dave Masterman - producer/day producer and regular
contributor (2015–2017)
Content of the show

• The content of the Radio X breakfast show is family friendly and for all
ages for a morning laugh and to enjoy the following songs that the show
plays and also enjoy the games and banter they have with each other .
• They also interact with the audience,
answer questions and also play family friendly songs from the
audience throughout the whole entire
3 hours of the show
Target Audience

Radio X Breakfast Show has a target audience aimed at male adults aged 15-44

years-old.

The morning show tends to air indie rock music for their predominant male

audience.
Scheduling
The Chris Moyles Show is on air from 6:30am to 10am, then Toby
Tarrant 10am-1pm, Issy Panayis 1pm-4pm, Johnny Vaughan 4pm-
7pm, The Evening Show with Dan o’ Connell 7pm-10pm and the
last for the day is Radio X Chilled with Elspeth Pierce 10pm- 1am