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The BBC, whose broadcasting in the UK is funded by a licence fee and does not sell advertising time, is most notable for being the first public service broadcaster in the UK. Its first director general, Lord Reith introduced many of the concepts that would later define public service broadcasting in the UK when he adopted the mission to "inform, educate and entertain".

With the launch of the first commercial broadcaster ITV in 1955, the government required that the local franchises fulfilled a similar obligation, mandating a certain level of local news coverage, arts and religious programming, in return for the right to broadcast.

The next commercial television broadcasters in the UK, the state-owned Channel 4 and S4C, were set up by the government in 1981 to provide different forms of public broadcasting. Channel 4 was required to be a public service alternative to the BBC and to cater for minorities and arts. S4C was to be a mainly Welsh language programmer. Neither was required to be commercially successful as Channel 4 was subsidised by the ITV network and S4C received a grant from the central government. However, Channel 4 was later restructured under the Broadcasting Act 1990 to be a state owned corporation that is self-financing and from 2013 the BBC took over funding for S4C.

When the final analogue terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 5, was launched in 1997 it too was given a number of public service requirements. These included the obligation to provide minimum amounts of programming from various genres, minimum amounts of programming originally commissioned by the channel and of European origin, and maximum limits on the number of repeats.

Commercial broadcasting is primarily based on the practice of airing radio advertisements and television advertisements for profit. This is in contrast to public broadcasting, which receives government subsidies and usually does not have paid advertising interrupting the show.

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Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.


a digital audio file made available on the internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new instalments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.


DAB stands for Digital Audio Broadcasting. So basically, it is just digitally transmitted sound. This is different to FM, for example, which is sound that is transmitted via radio waves, and you can adjust it to suit your location.





RAJAR stands for Radio Joint Audience Research and is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. It is jointly owned by the BBC and the Radiocentre on behalf of the commercial sector.a f








a fee paid to an organization for permission to own, use, or do something.
"street traders in Coventry could have their licence fees reduced by 75 per cent"
(in the UK) an annual fee, used to finance the BBC, which is payable by each household in which television programmes are watched.
"MPs are considering scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription system"

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What is a Royal Charter? A Royal Charter is an instrument of incorporation, granted by The King, which confers independent legal personality on an organisation and defines its objectives, constitution and powers to govern its own affairs.




, re·mit·ted, re·mit·ting. to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment. Synonyms: forward. Antonyms: retain.






Convergence is when two or more things come together to form a new whole, like the convergence of plum and apricot genes in the plucot. Convergence comes from the prefix con-, meaning together, and the verb verge, which means to turn toward.

public service- a media outlet that provides broadcasts for the general public

commercial- small non profit stations that are funded by ads and sponsors

community- very small scale radio and play different genres 

The difference between public and commercial radio stations is that commercial radio stations get funded by ads and sponsors public radio stations are funded by tv licences 

DAB allows the audience to download 

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1) an active audience is a audience that engages with the media messages

2) an audience that accepts media message without question 

3)personal identity

4)convergence

5) DEL 

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1) a broadcaster that is independant of government

finance

2)

 radio is still popular as the wide variety of music  and accessibility of radio stations in your car on your smart speaker or your phone iPad 

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1) 1951

2)bbc radio 4

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5) inform educate and entertain

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storylines-play

main characters- Gavin, Linda, Phillip, genre

genre conventions - dramatic storylines 

audience appeals - dramatic 

how dose this episode inform educate or entertain- slavery, living in a van 

how dose the show impact social or cultural context