Speech Based Packages Introduction

The radio industry is made up of 3 sectors; public, private and community.

Public

Public radio stations are paid for by the public, by the licenses that we have to pay. The annual cost of colour TV license is 145.50 per household and only 17% of that goes to radio, so that is £2.11 a month.

Here are all of the BBC's radio stations. The BBC have 16 different national radio stations, all have different content and this is too sere the different types of audiences. 

Here are some examples of the various types of radio station;

• BBC1 plays popular music and aimed at a young audience 
• BBC3 plays classical, jazz and world music, with culture, drama for an older audience
• BBC5 Live is for the sports and news fans
• BBC6 Music is for people who enjoy rock, funk and alternative music.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whoweare/licencefee/

Private

Private radio stations, also known as commercial stations, are owned by private people and companies. Since these are privately operated, they depend on the advertisements paid by different agencies as well as investments that would enable these companies to earn more. Also, paid programmings are a huge base of these stations in order for them to continue to broadcast, as that it a large part of the funding for private radio stations. Some examples are private radio stations are, Capital FM, TFM Radio, Magic FM, Smooth Radio, and Kiss FM.

 

Community

Community stations are for geographic communities and for people who are interested in that community. Community radio refers to a system of licensing small, micro-local, non-profit radio stations. They usually broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters, such as Capital or BBC Radio 1. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally non-profit and provide a mechanism for letting individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.