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?
Isreal and Iran war
2) How does Newsbeat appeal to a youth audience?
the music is attractive and the fast pace keeps you engaged
3) How might Newsbeat help fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster?
it educates with news and keeps you entertained with the presenters conversations.
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.
The BBC, with its bland programming, was
not attractive anymore and the huge number of listeners that
migrated to the pirate station clearly pointed to a social need for
young people that was not being fulfilled by the BBC. However,
the commercial model of radio with its need for advertising
revenue did not fulfil the core Reithian Values of the BBC; to
inform, educate and entertain, as established by Sir John Reith
in the 1930s. In response, Radio 1 was set-up to rival these pirate
stations and put them out of business, which it successfully did.
2) Look at page 3 of the factsheet. How is Radio 1 attempting to appeal to its 15-29 age demographic? Today, Radio 1 is supposed to cater for the 15-29 year old
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 in the UK today
and aims to help them make sense of the world around them.
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?
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.
5) How is Newsbeat constructed to appeal to audiences?
Multiple voices, regional and national accents; Welsh, Irish,
Scottish.
• Code-switching from formal to informal is used in order to
target and appeal to different demographics.
• Simplifying of language and content.
• Personalisation and anecdotes.
• Use of sound beds/effects: also known as imagining, that run
underneath the voices. These are used to maintain interest
throughout the broadcast.
• Recorded interviews with diegetic sound.
6) What are the three key ideas from David Hesmondhalgh and which apply to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
The BBC is a PSB provider, free from commercial impulses. All profits go back into making more
content for the people.
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.
Radio 1 and Newsbeat is finding it difficult to challenge the social media giants in targeting a youth
audience, but it does try to utilise these platforms with its content.
7) Now look at Curran and Seaton. What are their key ideas and can they be applied to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
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, and then rise in line with inflation for the following four years.
The plans for the new licence fee settlement cover a period of six years and will take effect from
1 April 2022 until 31 March 2028.
It’s also important to remember that the government could get rid of the BBC should it say so, but
it cannot tell it what to say or do.
8) What key idea for Livingstone and Lunt is on the factsheet and how does it link to the CSP?
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?
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.
blumler and katz .
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 organisation, 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, and to support the creative economy across the UK
To meet these expectations, the BBC must deliver the mission and public purposes set out
in its new Royal Charter (the Charter).
To meet these expectations, the BBC must deliver the mission and public purposes set out
in its new Royal Charter (the Charter).
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?
Support a wide range of valued genres
Support regional and national audiences, and creative economies across the UK- different accents of presenters.
Require the BBC to reflect the full diversity of the UK population.
3) Which do you think are the three most important aspects in the a-h list? Why?
Strengthen news and current affairs rules.
Secure a more distinctive BBC
Support social action campaigns on BBC radio.
4) Read point 1.9: What do Ofcom plan to review in terms of diversity and audience?
theyll examine the on-screen diversity of the BBC’s programming, including in
its popular peak time shows. The review will ask what audiences expect from the BBC to
understand whether it reflects and portrays the lives of all people across the whole of the
UK, ranging from younger and older audiences to diverse communities. We will take into
account the outcomes of the review as we shape our future oversight of the BBC, and we
will take further measures where needed to ensure that the BBC is delivering for all its
audiences.
5) Based on your reading and research, do you think BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat offers licence fee payers good value for money?
Yes as thr Radio show provides education, it entertains and informs which is what the bbc aim to do.
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