By Barnard Stephen
This quantity bargains a concise and thorough advent to radio broadcasting as a space of research, putting radio in a old and modern media context and tracing the advance and daily operation of the medium from the point of view of its associations, it practitioners and its viewers. It focuses not just at the associations of radio and the ways that programming is created and formed yet at the challenging factor of the way the fabric is acquired and utilized by its listeners. Drawing on numerous educational methods, this article surveys radio progamming via its major genres and the editorial practices that tell track choice and information insurance specifically; the language and elegance of radio programming; the ideology at the back of radio's simple promise of companionship and break out; and the way and why radio output dovetails so heavily with operating and rest styles.
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2 EAR continued TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS 1974 WORLD EVENTS UK RADIO Minority Labour government elected, UK. Second wave of BBC local stations given government go-ahead. I77 1978 Fig. 3 EAR PROGRAMMING US RADIO COMCOM group formed. Annan Committee reports, recommending local radio transfer to Local Broadcasting Authority. FM listening surpasses that of AM in US. BBC Radio Wales launched. Broadcasting of FCC refuses to Parliament begins. license stations at less than 100 watts. Radio Timeline III: Deregulation and convergence, 1979-99 TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS WORLD EVENTS UK RADIO PROGRAMMING 1979 Election of Conservative Thatcher government, UK.
A new Broadcasting Act disbands IBA and creates Radio Authority and Independent Television Commission. BBC launches Radio 5 - first new national network since 1967. 1991 Gulf War. Collapse of Soviet Union. 1992 Local Marketing Agreements (LMAs) introduced for simulcasting of programming, prompting new wave of syndication. Radio Luxembourg closes. Radio 4 provides temporary war information service on FM. Classic FM is first national commercial station in UK. 1994 1995 'Producer choice' underway at BBC.
Though some have described the 1980s and 90s as marking the beginning of the end of the BBC's independence in a political sense, the concern with customer service pointed to a loss of something more general - 'an erosion of the relative autonomy of broadcasting from capitalist economic pressures . . which [has] tied the broadcasters more closely to the economic system which the state exists to guarantee' (O'Malley, p. 179). 6) can be read as a succinct summary of how the BBC now interprets its public service role - not as one of challenge or cultural leadership but as a tightly run, efficiently managed provider of broadly acceptable programming.