RADIO1 Breakfast Show

NOV 2020 OFCOM SAYS YOUNG IGNORE BBC IPLAYER

Lot of detail here, but that 1967  launch as BBC were failing to serve the youth audience; the disgrace of binning BBC3 on to online only (didn't help Class!!?); ... has ANYTHING really changed???

OfCom renewed their assault on the BBC's failure to properly serve the youth audience, noting a shocking 22% drop in the 16-34 audience in just 3 years. Guardian.

Thee BBC just can't win, with a right-wing press and government both keen to see it either privatised or so weakened (eg the government decriminalised licence fee non-payment which is now soaring) that scrapping the license fee seems inevitable. OfCom had attacked the BBC for failing to serve the youth audience ... Now it's investigating the Beeb for ... serving the youth audience!!!

The Sounds app brings together all BBC radio, and has proven a success, with a new Radio 1 Dance channel being launched through the app to further boost their youth appeal. But now commercial (ad-funded or subsidised like Times Radio and Beats/Apple Music 1 by conglomerates) companies are complaining that the BBC is taking their audience! Read more here.

The station increased its audience by more than 100,000 a week to 8.9 million at the end of March. The BBC says Radio 1 still remains relevant to a youth audience in the digital age, with 24 being the most common age of a listener. It pointed out that its YouTube and Vevo channels attracted more than 2 million views a day.----Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 show loses a million listeners

Toast and jams: the Radio 1 breakfast​ ​show through the ages https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/31/radio-1-breakfast-show-nick-grimshaw-bbc?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger




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Boat That Rocked Wiki.

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Listen to the full 1967 launch show on Mixcloud. On BBC.
Rip from Mixcloud.

BBC radio history: 1967 launch. More.
BBC Radio 1 history.
BBC values.
BBC Reith.
BBC the pirate stations.

Dazed - history of pirate radio and why its still here.
Radio Luxembourg Wiki.
Fantazia - timeline of UK pirate scene [contains swearing]
UK pirate radio Wiki.

Radio 1 breakfast show Wiki.
Guardian history of the R1 breakfast show.

Needle time Wiki.

OfCom
- 2006 OfCom warn BBC over Chris Moyles swearing
- 2008 BBC radio fined record 400k for fake comps
- 2016 R1 apologises for Lady Gaga swearing ... and 5pm play of Flume song with swearing
- 2018 OfCom slam BBC's poor service for youth

Here's a very detailed Ppt which gives an overview of R1 from its history to the present day, focussing on the breakfast show...

Radio lessons 14 02 19 from Yvonne44