Unit 14: Radio Production

M2: What Are The Processes And Technologies Involved In Producing A Radio Broadcast?  For this unit, we will need to go through each of these stages to create a successful radio show. In this report, I will go through each of these processes and explain what what professional radio stations such as Capital FM would do. We will also follow these stages to create our own radio show.                                        Pre-production This is the first stage to create a radio show or any media product. In this stage, the Capital FM would generate ideas and plan out the radio show. They will need to create lots of pre-production documents, create some assets and also make sure they have all the equipment. First they will create a mindmap. This helps them generate ideas and show them in a presentable wa...

P3: Multi-platform Distribution Methods- Capital FM Once again I have used Capital FM as my example since I listened to their radio station frequently at one point in time. In this report, I will evaluate the different media platforms we can use to listen to Capital FM.  As said in the name, Capital FM uses the FM radio frequency and DAB frequencies. FM (Frequency Modulation) means that Capital FM's radio frequency might not be available in certain areas if you are too far away for the frequency to reach you. This was invented in 1933 by Edwin Armstrong; these radio waves can easily cut out which isn't very ideal if you are driving away from the radio waves. Capital is a commercial radio station with local stations such as Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Manchester, Lancashire, Liverpool, Brighton, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Coventry, Cymru. More regional stations are Capital South Wales, South Coast, Scotland, North West and North Wales, North West, East Midlands. Capital also has a...

               P2: Focus of a Radio Station  In this section, I will talk about how different radio stations choose different types of programmes to cater to a certain target audience. I will talk about the purpose of the programmes, their target audience and how they are different to the other types of programming.                                 Music Radio Programmes     Capital FM, Kiss FM and Hallam FM are just a few radio stations that use music radio programmes in their scheduling. Music programmes are used to entertain their audience. People of different ages will like different music. Some radio stations will aim for adults and will play music from the 90s and other radio stations like Capital FM will play modern music that is popular right now to target teenagers and young ad...

P1: Describe Different Radio Industry Operations    In this report, I will be explain the different types of radio stations that our out there (commercial, regional....) and provide examples. There are lots of different radios that we can access through different technologies such as a radio, our phones, laptops, TV etc. Global is a large conglomerate that controls most of the biggest UK commercial radio stations (Capital FM, Heart, Smooth Radio, Classic FM, Radio X) that has a mass audience of listeners.                                      Public Service Radio PSB (Public Service Broadcast) radio stations are funded by taxes and TV licenses. BBC radios are PSB radios, they have to follow certain rules and they cannot promote or advertise on their stations. They can offer BBC merch or tickets to their ev...