CSP TV CLASS

I've referenced this in a few posts but I'll start a fresh post here.

BBC3 RELAUNCH DISASTER: YOUTH NOW SPEND JUST 17 MINS A DAY ON LIVE TV 

‘ the total youth audience for all British television channels has collapsed by 70% over the last decade. The average teenager’s consumption of live television has fallen from almost three hours a day to just 50 minute during this period.’ Guardian April 2022.

AUGUST 2021 - BRITS 6 HOURS DAILY SCREEN TIME AS 60% HAVE STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION

OfCom research reveals the speed with which the deep-pocketed global giants have become a normal part of UK households media consumption. A third of Brits' waking time in 2020 was spent on TV/films/gaming (screentime), up 1 hour on 2019 to nearly 6 hours. Guardian.

MARCH 2021

BBC3 TO RETURN AS BROADCAST STATION! Guardian. BUT...JULY 2021: C4 + Sky lodge protests! OfCom investigation due to report in January 2022. Guardian.

JAN 2021

As Whitaker quits Dr Who a reminder of some advances: Whittaker’s Doctor Who tenure has been considered a success, with the launch show being the most watched for a decade with 9 million viewers tuning in. The show has also evolved during her time with a virtual reality episode released in 2019 and a mini DIY episode airing in March shortly after national coronavirus lockdown measures came into force. (Guardian)

C4 moving to online only? Nov 2020

Guardian reports that C4 is looking to double its online ad revenue (it currently relies heavily on TV ad income) and increase the uptake for All4+, the £3.99 monthly ad-free subscription to it's catch-up service. This is seen as pre-empting the Tory government review of PSB, with the Tories frequently calling for C4 to be privatised.

It said it hoped to make 40% of its revenue from digital advertising and other sources of revenue not linked to the traditional TV market by 2025 – around double the current amount. As part of this it wants more people to pay for All 4+, the ad-free version of its catch-up service, which costs £3.99 a month.

Channel 4’s annual programme budget of £660m a year makes it a relative minnow compared with the likes of the BBC and Netflix, which is investing more than $1bn (£750m) just in UK-filmed productions this year.

The culture minister, John Whittingdale, a longtime proponent of privatising Channel 4, has raised concerns recent months that the broadcaster’s business model may struggle to survive in the face of competition from the likes of Netflix.

Is BBC3 returning to TV? (May 2020)

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BBC gets a hand to compete with Netflix et al 

BBC iPlayer can show programmes for a year instead of 30 days.

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RADIO INDUSTRY

IN THIS POST...

Lots of general links/docs/resources to broaden your knowledge and understanding AFTER some contemporary news updates, especially around the regulation of radio and disruption of online, converged devices...

JAN 2023: BAUER BECOMING RADIO FORCE

Guardian. Local radio is in flux with both commercial chains & the BBC cutting local output. Bauer have bought many local stations and then rebranded them with a national station like GHR, Greatest Hits Radio. They also own Magic and Absolute Radio, which has multiple niche brands itself. The article also compares the audience demographics of BBC R2 and GHR.

SEPT 2022: INDIE RADIO CRASHING UNDER WEIGHT OF ENERGY BILLS

Guardian. Ara would be the Luxembourg equivalent of the UK Indies. This article features a range of stations I hadn't heard of myself. The comments are interesting too - like some others I wonder if they can make subscription work like so many podcasters have.

OCT 2021: BBC WARNS ALEXA etc KILLING RADIO, DEMAND AD BAN

Guardian. The Beeb together with its commercial rivals has asked for a law to ban smart devices/assistants like Echo, Alexa, Siri from inserting ads into radio broadcasts. They don't currently do this ... but the strong suspicion is they will (just think of how YouTube works).

'The BBC is particularly concerned by research suggesting that when BBC material is consumed through a smart speaker or other third party device, audiences are substantially less likely to mentally associate it with the BBC. This has potentially enormous implications for the future of the licence fee and convincing audiences to pay for the BBC in the future.'

A campaign to legally guarantee that new media carry radio "free to air" parallels that to ensure the traditional PSBs get prominence on EPGs (see Guardian).

FM is set to continue until 2030 (originally to be switched off in 2015!) with many rural areas reliant on it. The government report misses the point here that the DAB signal is also patchy in urban areas too - I was able to pick up ONE station in my Yorkshire home a few years back, but the full range on FM. However, AM/MW (especially important for speech radio like R5 and Talk Radio) faces switch off in a few years.

'The British radio industry is facing a demographic timebomb. In the new report, it has renewed calls to scrap regulations that limit the ability to rebrand stations and change formats, as well as asking for continued government financial support for the Audio Content Fund to produce material for under-served audiences.

Though overall radio listenership remains high, it is much lower among younger listeners and people from ethnic minority backgrounds, many of whom feel they are not represented by existing stations and are instead switching to podcasts and streaming music services.'

RAJAR infographics (pdf); UK's most popular radio stations (YouGov); Wiki: UK radio stations; history of radio (techwholesale); BBC bitesize radio history/industry; Wiki: timeline of UK independent radio; history/development of UK radio (media.info)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/21/ronan-orahilly-pirate-radio-godfather-made-a-sea-change-in-british-pop

https://www.loudersound.com/features/why-doesnt-your-band-get-played-on-the-radio-heres-the-ugly-truth

BBC Bitesize summary is a really good overview, using multiple useful terms, in an easy-to-digest format as the name suggests!

Lengthy overview of radio 1

Radio lessons 14 02 19 from Yvonne44

General overview

WJEC MS1 Exam: Radio codes and conventions from Elle Sullivan

Case studies on how radio/social media work in synergy

Social Media & Radio: A Case Study from OldRadioNewMedia

Social Media & Radio from RowanColllinson

TV INDUSTRY CONVERGENCE Facebook YouTube rival streams Buffy

I'll gather more on the TV industry (wider context) in this post.

Note: the article linked contains some strong language (it's not necessary to read it).

The basic point is that Facebook is now commissioning original TV series as well as distributing classics, in this case the 7, 5 and 1 season of Buffy, Angel and Firefox, all Joss Whedon produced. (The site takes a hard feminist line on him personally, but the useful point is the accelerating convergence of social media and TV/film/music/games production and distribution.

Up to $100m a year to stream Friends!!!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/friends-inside-netflix-warnermedias-new-80m-streaming-deal-1166238

CSP Beats Radio

Radio Garden app furthers globalisation of radio. (Guardian) Nice phrase from its Dutch founders: transnational encounters. It offers 30,000+ stations from across the globe.

Eilish radio show for Apple Music 1.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/16/skepta-jme-julie-are-the-adenugas-britains-most-creative-family

https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/30/iheartmedia-radio-apple-music/

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/42086/1/new-radio-station-foundation-fm-female-dj-s

https://www.youthmusic.org.uk/youth-music-awards-judges

https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/dj-names.php

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40960836


http://grmdaily.com/julie-adenuga-interview

We want people to feel they have a home': No Signal, black Britain's new radio station

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/16/we-want-people-to-feel-they-have-a-home-no-signal-black-britains-new-radio-station?