Radio

• The BBC's remit is to educate, entertain and inform
• Ofcom regulates radio
• Greg James is the current presenter
• Greg James took over in 2018
• The target audience for BBC radio 1 is 15-29
• The main class for BBC is C1 = lower middle class
• 34% of listeners are aged 15-24
• BBC radio 1 Breakfast show is a Public service broadcasting.
• In a survey I completed about radio what did one person say was the reason they dislike radio?

  The bias
• What does the TV Licence cover?


  All TV channels and pay TV services and everything on BBC iplayer.
• Tony Blackburn was the first BBC Radio 1 BS presenter
• 30 September 1967 was the first episode of BBC R1 BS
• RAJAR is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK
• BBC R1 BS currently has 4.1 million listeners aged 10 plus.
• The BBC's 5 public purposes-

  1. To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them
  2. To support learning for people of all ages
  3. To show the most creative, highest quality and distinctive output and services
  4. 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
  5. To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world
• The BBC Radio1 service licence describes the most important characteristics of Radio 1, including how it contributes to the BBC’s public purposes.
• Greg James took over from Grimshaw as the public found that Grimshaw was hard to relate to with his celebrity connections.