scholarly journals The smartphone generation of community radio listeners: Is FM sustainable?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Janey Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid System ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
Analogue Signal ◽  
Commercial Radio ◽  
The Uk

This article examines the current environment of audio transmission services in the UK with particular regard to the community radio sector. Community radio stations in the UK are having to consider the extent to which their audiences choose to listen on an FM analogue signal and whether this is sustainable for them. The number of new platforms that a listener is using to access audio programming now includes DAB, SSDAB, TV carriers and online services. There are also developments to the actual receivers that may be used, in particular the use of smartphones to listen via online Wi-Fi or 4G. Currently there are no plans for an FM turn off in the UK and a hybrid system of transmission and reception is the most likely outcome for the foreseeable future. The consequences of this environment for the broadcasters, the listeners and the audio content are discussed in turn. A sample group of twelve community radio stations have been studied to assess current practices. This group are the remaining stations from the original Access Pilot community radio stations that went on air in 2002 and so are the oldest and most established of the UK stations. This article provides baseline definitions where relevant and uses recent data from national audience research, regulatory and other bodies to assess what people are listening to and how, along with examples from public service and commercial radio, as well as community radio.

A Quiet Revolution: Australian Community Broadcasting Audiences Speak Out

2008 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Meadows ◽  
Susan Forde ◽  
Jacqui Ewart ◽  
Kerrie Foxwell
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Australian Community

Around four million listeners in an average week tune into community radio stations around Australia, primarily to hear local news and information — evidence of a failure by mainstream media to meet their diverse needs. This discussion draws from the first qualitative study of the Australian community broadcasting sector to explore the role being played by community radio and television from the perspectives of their audiences. The authors argue that community broadcasting at the level of the local is playing a crucial role in the democratic process by fostering citizen participation in public life. This suggests a critique of mainstream media approaches and the central place of audience research in understanding the nature of the empowering relationships and processes involved. The authors argue that the nature of community broadcasting aligns it more closely with the complex ‘local talk’ narratives at the community level, which play a crucial role in creating public consciousness. They suggest that this quiet revolution has highlighted the nature of the audience–producer relationship as a defining characteristic of community media.

scholarly journals Possible models of local news provision by radio in Scotland: A mixed-methods study

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Kocic ◽  
Jelena Milicev
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Local Level ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Local News ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
Commercial Radio

Scotland does not have any public service radio on a local level, except for a few bulletins or programmes offered by BBC Radio Scotland on an opt-out basis. Scottish commercial radio stations do cover local issues but within brief hourly news bulletins, without any in-depth coverage, while community radio by and large lacks resources for any news coverage of its own. Through a review of the existing literature on the role of media in democracy, and in particular the role of local radio, interviews with stakeholders and experts and history, and focus groups with ordinary people, this study formulates several possible solutions for future local news provision by radio in Scotland.

scholarly journals ETNISITAS DAN RADIO KOMERSIAL STUDI TERHADAP PROGRAM SIARAN BETAWI DI BENS RADIO DAN PROGRAM SIARAN JAWA DI RADIO CEMERLANG

Epigram ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaenal Abidin Eko Putro ◽  
Gibran Maulana Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Community Program ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Commercial Radio ◽  
Community Issues

AbstractCommercial radio which contains ethnical broadcasting program is different from community radio that focuses only on a particular ethnic community problem as well as ethnic community issues. Although commercial radio broadcasts ethnical community program just like other community radio does so, goal of braodcasing ethnicity in both radio forms remain unsimilar. This paper departs from this problem and trays to respond it.This paper is based on a field research with its qualitative method that organized by investigating two radio stations in Jakarta’ greater area, namely MPM Radio Cemerlang Depok and Bens Radio Jakarta. One of the research findings is that ethnic voices broadcasted in both radios deals with commercial goal to gain profit as radio broadcasting enable to gain such profit or capital. However, broadcasting ethnicity program in radio has the goal to connect both radio audiences with their own culture background.Key words: radio, commercial radio, ethnicity, radio audience and radio positioningAbstrakRadio komersial yang memuat siaran bernuansa etnis amatlah berbeda dengan keberadaan radio komunitas. Perbedaan itu paling tidak ditinjau dari unsur perangkat siaran dan isi siaran. Sebagai radio yang menyuarakan suara komunitas, memang keberadaan radio swasta komersial juga sama-sama berpeluang mengangkat siaran komunitas. Hanya pertanyaannya apakah radio swasta komersial juga sama kedudukannya dengan radio komunitas dalam hal pemenuhan kebutuhan untuk komunitas tertentu. Paper ini berusaha merespon masalah terkait terpenuhi atau tidaknya kebutuhan komunitas dalam siaran radio komersial.Dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif, penelitian ini menyasar siaran bernuansa Betawi di Bens Radio dan program siaran bernuansa Jawa di Radio Cemerlang. Dua radio ini dipilih berdasarkan lokasi stasiun radionya dan audience mereka yang berada di Jabodetabek. Dua stasiun radio tersebut sampai hari ini masih secara aktif mengudarakan siaran-siaran bernuansa etnis yang dikemas dalam berbagai bentuk. Berdasarkan hasil pencarian data dapat dikatakan bahwa elemen etnisitas yang dibangun oleh kedua radio tersebut memiliki keterkaitan erat dengan makanisme industri dan perniagaan yang dijalankan kedua radio tersebut. Suara etnisitas dikumandangkan untuk menetapkan posisi (positioning) radio di antara radio yang lain serta juga untuk mengakomodir kerinduan akan budaya etnis para pendengarnya.Kata kunci: radio, radio komersial, etnisitas, pendengar radio dan penetapan posisi (positioning)

scholarly journals La Radio Comunitaria ¿Cómo resignificarla hoy?

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-107
Author(s):  
Gretta Paiz Malespín
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Commercial Radio ◽  
Indispensable Tool ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Los Grupos

Las Radios Comunitarias surgieron en América Latina, como medios alternativos a la radio comercial y la radio estatal. Se posicionaron como una herramienta indispensable en el debate de temas emergentes desde la comunidad en un contexto marcado por principios de unidad, consenso, participación, discernimiento y diálogo. No obstante, hoy esos contextos han cambiado, por lo que se hace inevitable abrir el debate y discutir las condiciones actuales de las Radios Comunitarias, bajo la premisa de re-significarlas desde nuevos escenarios desafiantes. Con este propósito surge el ensayo: “La Radio Comunitaria: ¿Cómo resignificarla hoy?”.Esta es una propuesta que nace consciente del escenario complejo en que operan las Radios Comunitarias en América Latina, criminalizadas, marginadas e invisibilizadas por los Estados, los monopolios, los oligopolios y por los grupos de poder. A este panorama nada sencillo, se suma que también son radios divididas por geografía, edad, cultura, idioma, estilos de vida y formas de concebir el mundo.SummaryThe Community Radio’s emerged in Latin America as alternative means to commercial radio and state radio. They were positioned as an indispensable tool in the debate of emerging issues from the community in a context marked by principles of unity, consensus, participation, discernment and dialogue. However, today these contexts have changed, so it is inevitable to open the debate and discuss the current conditions of community radio stations, under the premise of redefining them from new challenging scenarios. With this purpose the essay appeared: "The Community Radio: How can we redefine it?"This is a proposal that came out aware of the complex situation in which the community radio stations operates in Latin America, as they are criminalized, marginalized and invisibilized by States, monopolies, oligopolies and power groups. In this panorama which is not so easy, we add the fact that they are radios that are also divided by geography, age, culture, language, lifestyles and ways of conceiving the world.

French and Spanish Queer Film

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Perriam ◽  
Darren Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Current State ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Screening Questionnaires ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Uk

This book advances the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France, as well as how these films are seen in the UK. It studies films from various genres and examines their reception across four languages (Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and engages with participants across a range of digital and physical audience locations. A focus on LGBTQ festivals and on issues relating to LGBTQ experience in both countries allows for the consideration of issues such as ageing, sense of community and isolation, affiliation and investment, and the representation of issues affecting trans people. The book examines films that chronicle the local, national and sub-national identities while also addressing foreign audiences. It draws on a large sample of individual responses through post-screening questionnaires and focus groups as well as on the work of professional film critics and on-line commentators.

scholarly journals Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372097290
Author(s):  
Alessandro D’Arma ◽  
Tim Raats ◽  
Jeanette Steemers
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Competitive Displacement ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Different Levels

Netflix and other transnational online video streaming services are disrupting long-established arrangements in national television systems around the world. In this paper we analyse how public service media (PSM) organisations (key purveyors of societal goals in broadcasting) are responding to the fast-growing popularity of these new services. Drawing on Philip Napoli’s framework for analysing strategic responses by established media to threats of competitive displacement by new media, we find that the three PSM organisations in our study exhibit commonalities. Their responses have tended to follow a particular evolution starting with different levels of complacency and resistance before settling into more coherent strategies revolving around efforts to differentiate PSM offerings, while also diversifying into activities, primarily across new platforms, that mimic SVoD approaches and probe production collaborations. Beyond these similarities, however, we also find that a range of contextual factors (including path-dependency, the role and status of PSM in each country, the degree of additional government support, cultural factors and market size) help explain nuances in strategic responses between our three cases.

scholarly journals Radio station “Mayak” for 55 years: stages of development

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-347
Author(s):  
Tatiana Yu. Pynina
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Broadcasting System ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Commercial Radio

This article is devoted to the 55th anniversary of the beginning of broadcasting radio “Mayak”. Due to a number of circumstances, among which the format of the radio station and the professional staff of its employees played a decisive role, “Mayak”, successfully working and having a large audience in the Soviet period, remained in the post-Soviet period, without losing its importance and weight. Having received in 2000 FM frequency, he was able to compete in the air and became an integral part of the new broadcasting system. The author identifies and analyzes the main innovations that have arisen in the air of this station, subsequently perceived by private commercial radio stations that have appeared in the post-Soviet space. The relevance of the article in determining the role of radio “Mayak” in the development and activities of domestic broadcasting, as well as in increasing the prestige and importance of the work of radio journalists. When writing the article, the author, who worked on the air of “Mayak” for more than ten years, who was both a witness and a participant in a number of innovative projects, used both conversations with veterans of the station and his personal experience, and the empirical method of research of the radio station “Mayak”.

scholarly journals Does Public Service Television Really Give Consumers Less Good Value for Money than the Rest of the Market?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Barwise
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Implication ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
The Public ◽  
Consumer Value ◽  
Consumer Benefits ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Tv Commercial ◽  
Better Than

This chapter explores the assumption that public service television (PST), i.e. BBC TV, commercial public service broadcasters (PSBs), and non-PSBs, offers less consumer value for money than the rest of the market in the UK; that the only continuing rationale for PST rests on citizen concerns. It shows that PST does give citizens public service benefits over and above those provided by the non-PSBs and online-only TV players, and these ‘citizenship’ benefits are highly valued by the public. PST also offers consumers better value for money because the non-PSBs' significantly higher cost per viewer-hour seems unlikely to be compensated for by commensurately higher audience appreciation. The main policy implication is simple: there is no necessary trade-off between citizen and consumer benefits: pound for pound, PST appears to deliver both sets of benefits better than the rest of the market.

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