Breakfast Show (Fat File)

             
                                   The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw


-Radio 1 Breakfast show is a broadcast weekdays from 6:30-10:00 am.
-Started in 1967
-Nick Grimshaw took over in 2012 he was the 15th presenter
-BBC Radio 1 is broadcast on FM,DAB, Freeview, Freesat, Virgin Sky or online via BBC Radio Player
- The media platforms BBC Radio 1 can be heard on are.....
-If people can acctes on many platforms is called distribution/ originally you will only listed on the radio/ because of the distribution and the web you can listen it.
-It is produced by BBC
-Over 40 record are chosen to repeat on the morning breakfast show which is guided by the popularity from young people.
-Many older artists are not included as the network tries to keep an under 30 audience.
-The playlist are on their website
-They try to promote British artists
- They have throwback Thursday where they play older tracks.


Ownership and Funding

-The radio 1 Breakfst Show is produced by the Brithish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and broadcast on BBC Radio 1.
-It is a Public service broadcaster
-Two types of broadcasters are commercial or public service
    -commercial channels make money by selling advertising space- the adverts sponsor the products

     -Public service broadcaster don't sell advertising space and the public pay through a license fee           for the programmes and they get government funding. 

      -PSB they have a remit to 'educate, inform and entertain'

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Uses and Gratifications theory- about active audiences

1) Information

2) entertainment and leisure

3) sense of identity- (copying fashions, emotional experiences, coping with different issues more sympathy to people)

4) Community-something to talk about, things to do with other people. Socialising etc. 
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-Radio 1 is trying to entertain and engage a broad range of young listeners with a distinctive mix of contemporary music with speech.
-Its target audience is 15-29 years
-And it should also provide some programming for younger teenagers.
-It should offer a range of new music
-Support artists especially the ones from the UK.
-Radio 1 is funded by TV licence
-Radio one has a YouTube channel with 1.4 billion views on their videos
-BBC radio 1 should provide education
-BBC have interactive forums allowing listeners to share experiences eg. phoning the radio
-The Breakfast show had 9.7 million listeners and the numbers are dropping to 5.7 million.



How dis the episode of the breakfast show that you have studied meet the remit of BBC?

Remit- is to educate, inform and entertain 

The remit of the BBC is to educate inform and entertain. The BBC who produce Radio 1, is a public Service Channel. That means it does not sell advertising space and is owned by the public. The Radio 1 Breakfast show aims to support young artists from the UK, it aims to target audience between 15-30, they want to promote campaigns and have new and programmes on the radio channel that are relevant to young people. On Thursdays they have a throwback Thursday which will play retro music to appeal to a wider listeners. To reacha wider audience the channel needs to publicize across its wide range of media platforms such as YouTube, IPlayer, Virgin, Sky, Freeview, Freeset, DAB.


Now listen to the programme to complete the answer:


Introduction immediately address the essay question

Body of the essay give examples
-P,E,A/E
-Point- it aims to inform the audience throuh regular news bulletins every 30 minutes for instance
-Example
-Explain- this news topic will appeal to the target audience of 15-30 year olds.

Point-the breakfast radio show is entertaining and inter active with the audience for example.

The audience members can pick a song every half hour. Los of new artists promoted with tracks

Explain

Point:

There 


How does the episode of the breakfast show that you have studied meet the remit of BBC?

Remit- is to educate, inform and entertain 

The remit of the BBC is to educate inform and entertain. The BBC who produce Radio 1, is a public Service Channel. That means it does not sell advertising space and is owned by the public. The Radio 1 Breakfast show aims to support young artists from the UK, it aims to target audience between 15-30, they want to promote campaigns and have new and programmes on the radio channel that are relevant to young people. On Thursdays they have a throwback Thursday which will play retro music to appeal to a wider listeners. To reacha wider audience the channel needs to publicize across its wide range of media platforms such as YouTube, IPlayer, Virgin, Sky, Freeview, Freeset, DAB.



The remit of the BBC is to educate, inform and entertain. The episode that I have looked at was from 2017 which was broadcast on BBC Radio 1. The BBC who also have many Radio channels such as BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 1 ect. which are a PSC channels (Public Service Channel) meaning that it does not sell advertising space and it is owed by the public. So when