BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat: Blog tasks
Newsbeat analysis
Use BBC Sounds to listen to Radio 1. Select a Newsbeat bulletin (8am or 12.45pm are good options) and then answer the following questions:
1) What news stories were featured in the bulletin you listened to?
News about greta thunberg, football in Scotland and wales and criminal offences in England
2) How does Newsbeat appeal to a youth audience?
Newsbeat uses cover music, multiple stories at a fast pace and reporters from different places to attract a younger audience
3) How might Newsbeat help fulfil the BBC's responsibilities as a public service broadcaster?
By providing news and information for young people
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.
Launched in 1973 and it was the only uk radio that was legal to listen to
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).
Surveillance to gain an insight on the world
Personal identity to connect themselves to popular culture
4) How has Radio 1 and Newsbeat in particular diversified its content for the digital age?
As they use different accents on the speakers in news beats to appeal to all parts of the uk
5) How is Newsbeat constructed to appeal to audiences?
4) How has Radio 1 and Newsbeat in particular diversified its content for the digital age?
As they use different accents on the speakers in news beats to appeal to all parts of the uk
5) How is Newsbeat constructed to appeal to audiences?
Short, informal sentences to attract the audience
6) What are the three key ideas from David Hesmondhalgh and which apply to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
Cultural industries minimise risk, cultural industries increased relying on formatting, increase concentration on ownership. Apply to radio 1 as they use well known presenters to attract a larger audience
7) Now look at Curran and Seaton. What are their key ideas and can they be applied to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
Ownership is increasingly concentrated, limits creativity and quality, patterns influence media content. Links to radio 1 as bbc is a psb and promotes diversity and quality
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. As radio 1 balances standard regulation and attracts a wider audience
9) How can we apply Stuart Hall's Reception theory to Radio 1 Newsbeat?
10) Choose one other audience theory on the factsheet and explain how it links to Radio 1 Newsbeat.
User and gratifications: surveillance, learn about the world (news)
Industry contexts: reading and research
1) Pick out three key points in the 'Summary' section.
1. The bbc is the uks most widely used media organisation
2. The public has exceptionally high standards for the bbc
3. A remit to inform, educate and entertain
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?
Strengthen news and current affair rules as radio aim to reach the widest performance possible
3) Which do you think are the three most important aspects in the a-h list? Why?
Strengthen news and current affair rules, support a wide range of valued genres, increase requirements and programmes for children because these all link to BBC’s remit the most of educate, entertain and inform
4) Read point 1.9: What do Ofcom plan to review in terms of diversity and audience?
How different audiences are represented and portrayed in the bbc
5) Based on your reading and research, do you think BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat offers licence fee payers good value for money?
Yes but it depends on the amount of young people who watch radio 1 as they may not be willing to pay the license fee if they don’t watch the media content
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