BBC Task

Task: Have a look at the range of BBC programmes today – Look at Radio 1 through to Radio 6 and one column for local stations

•Which programmes are most clearly fulfilling their PSB remit?

•What range of programmes are offered?

•Which audiences are being targeted?

Station:	Fulfilling PSB remit:	Range of programmes:	Target audiences:	3 principles most evident:
Radio 1	Includes information and entertainment. No education.	Breakfast show, news, story telling, charts, dance anthems.	The target audiences are young people and the older people commuting to work.
Radio 2	Includes information, entertainment. No education.	Breakfast show, news, chats, jazz music, charts.	The targets are older people (20s-30s).
Radio 3	Includes information, entertainment. No education.	Core proposition of classical music, speech-based programming for education, Jazz, world music, drama, the arts and ideas and religious programming.	Listeners of any age trying to expand their cultural horizons through engaging with the world of music and the arts.
Radio 4	Includes information, entertainment. No education.	A mixed speech service, offering in-depth news and current affairs and a wide range of other speech including drama, readings, comedy, factual and magazine programmes.	All listeners seeking intelligent programmes in many genres.
Radio 5	Includes information and entertainment. No education.	Breaking news, news and sports coverage through broad analysis and discussion.	News and sports fans of all ages and all ethnic backgrounds and areas across the UK.
Radio 6	Includes entertainment.	They juxtapose current releases - BBC Sound Archive and the alternative spirit of music from 1960s to the present day.	Mainly the older generation who lived through these times of music.