Radio: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat

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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.
Newsbeat. For many years BBC radio had a monopoly of the airwaves, it was the only radio station that people in the UK could legally listen to. However, this monopoly was challenged in the 1960s when pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg started illegally transmitting commercial programming via ships in international waters and on land.

2) Look at page 3 of the factsheet. How is Radio 1 attempting to appeal to its 15-29 age demographic? 
It aims to entertain and engage young listeners with a distinctive mix of contemporary music and speech.

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? 
In order to try and cater for young people’s needs and compete with rival platforms, 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.

3) How might Newsbeat help fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster? 
They target young people and give information about recent news stories, entertain by introducing new music artists and educate like they did during the general election


6) What are the three key ideas from David Hesmondhalgh and which apply to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
'Risky Business'- Radio 1 aims to target young teenagers and actually reach a medium of 32 year old
Hesmondhalgh: diversity in the media- Newsbeat explores popular culture and discusses breaking issues in pop culture as a way to reach and hold the attention of young people 

7) Now look at Curran and Seaton. What are their key ideas and can they be applied to Radio 1 Newsbeat? 

The media is concentrated in the hands of powerful commercial media giants- no -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 by the government.

8) What key idea for Livingstone and Lunt is on the factsheet and how does it link to the CSP?
Media can have a citizen- based approach to regulation- yes:
  • Citizen-orientated regulation is concerned with content-based issues.
  • Citizen-based regulation is a positive form of regulation that directs media content so that it can improve the lives of citizens and contribute to the wider well-being of society.
9) How can we apply Stuart Hall's Reception theory to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
Some media content reinforces dominant ideologies of social power- yes - Radio 1 has a wide and varied output. Radio 1 has a lot of content that represents minority groups. Newsbeat often runs stories that questions political power.

10) Choose one other audience theory on the factsheet and explain how it links to Radio 1 Newsbeat.
Audiences select media products in an active way, for various reasons- yes- 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 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.

the BBC must deliver the mission and public purposes set out in its new Royal Charter (the Charter). For the first time, the BBC will be robustly held to account for doing so by an independent, external regulator.

The Charter gives Ofcom the job of setting the BBC’s operating licence (the Licence). This sets binding conditions, requiring the BBC to deliver for licence feepayers. 

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 social action campaigns on BBC radio
  • Support a wide range of valued genres. 
  • Safeguard vulnerable genres such as arts, music and religious programmes

3) Which do you think are the three most important aspects in the a-h list? Why?
Require the BBC to reflect the full diversity of the UK population- The 

4) Read point 1.9: What do Ofcom plan to review in terms of diversity and audience? 
As part of their analysis we plan to examine the on-screen diversity of the BBC’s programming, including in its popular peak time shows. Ofcom believe all audiences should feel that the BBC offers something for them,

5) Based on your reading and research, do you think BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat offers licence fee payers good value for money?
Yes, they inform with top news stories and facts from around the world, offer recommendations to niche  musical talents and target young people with entertaining pop culture references 

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