4. What decade was the radio invented?
What year was the BBC formed?
How many UK radio stations are there
today?
What do you already know?
5. • Guglielmo Marconi: Italian inventor.
• He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895.
• 1897 set up the Marconi's "Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company,
Chelmsford Essex.
6. What is a radio?
A radio is a device that transmits sound
If a tree falls in a forest and there’s no-one around to
hear it, does it make a sound?
8. 1922 - Formation of the British Broadcasting Company -
John Reith
1927 Becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation est. by
Royal Charter
‘Nation shall speak peace unto Nation’
12. What is this and where is it?
Broadcasting House
Portland Place
Marylebone
London
The first radio broadcast from the
building was made on 15 March
1932
13. EARLY TV
1932 – Test transmissions alternating between Logie Bairds 224 lines
and Marconi's 405 line
1936 – First televised programmes
1937 - First televised Outside Broadcast (OB) – Coronation of George
VI
1939 – Suspended with out break of WWII
20. Early 1960s "Pirate radio stations"
Broadcast from offshore ships –
not illegal because they were in international waters.
Set up to meet the demand for pop and rock music, which
was not catered for by the legal BBC Radio
Radio Caroline broadcast from a ship off Essex coast in 1964.
By 1967 10 pirate radio stations were broadcasting to an estimated daily audience of
10 to 15 million.
Influential pirate radio DJs included John Peel, Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett.
The format was influenced by American radio stations - top 40 format with informal
DJs- the antithesis of BBC radio at the time. Land based pirate stations took to the
air on medium wave at weekends, such as Radio Free London in 1968
21. Radio 1 is launched
BBC Light programme becomes Radio 2
BBC third Programme becomes radio 3
Home Service becomes Radio 4
First local BBC radio station in Leicester
1967
23. 1990 deregulation
Radio stations go from 46 – 267 by 2010
Independent Radio audience over takes BBC radio for the 1st time
Mercia Sound,
Hereward
Radio2CR
Radio
TaySevern
Sound
DevonAir
Radio
NorthSound,
RadioRadio
Radio Essex
Radio Chiltern
RadioWiltshire
Radio Saxon
RadioCounty
SoundGB
RadioSouthern
Viking Radio
Invicta
Mercury
24. Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio in launched (Commercial DAB receivers
began to be sold in 1999)
Over 50 commercial and BBC DAB services were available in London by 2001
1996 - 2001
31 million people in UK now own a DAB radio
25. 2000’s internet radio stations MEDIA
CONVERGENCE
Gold fm radio
Box UK radio
KISS hits fm
Dance Radio UK
26. New communications regulator Ofcom established replacing:
•the Broadcasting Standards Commission,
•The Independent Television Commission (ITC)
•the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel)
•the Radio Authority
•the Radio communications Agency
2003
28. Today there are over 800 radio
services and 250 licences are
awarded each year
30. What can we listen to the radio on nowadays?
How many devices do you have in your house
that you can access radio programmes?
31. Desktop computers, laptops, smart phones,
television, tablets, iPods, DAB radios, smart
Watches….?
What can we listen to the radio on nowadays?
32. What decade was the radio invented?
What year was the BBC formed?
How many UK radio stations are there
today?
Do you NOW know?
33. What decade was the radio invented?
1890s
What year was the BBC formed?
How many UK radio stations are there
today?
Do you NOW know?
34. What decade was the radio invented?
1890s
What year was the BBC formed? 1922
How many UK radio stations are there
today?
Do you NOW know?
35. What decade was the radio invented?
1890s
What year was the BBC formed? 1922
How many UK radio stations are there
today? > 800
Do you NOW know?
36. Summary
•UK dominance of radio
•The BBC’s monopoly
•Competition from TV, deregulation,
commercial radio and internet
37. BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
10 radio stations
6-8 national regional stations
40 local radio stations
+>800 UK commercial stations
Research 1 BBC radio station and 1 commercial radio station
which you have never listened to – Make bullet point notes to
answer:
What are their different house styles, content, and target
audience?