![1. Explain why popular music radio programmes struggle to gain
recognition as Public Service Broadcasting. Refer to The BBC
Radio 1 Breakfast Show to support your answer.
In your answer you must also:
• Explain how political, cultural and economic contexts influence
the status of popular music radio programming. [15]
2. Explain the impact of digitally convergent media platforms on video
game production, distribution and consumption. Refer to Minecraft
to support your answer. [15]
Section A: Media Industries and
Audiences
This question asks
students to show their
K&U of radio in relation
to PSB (AO1.1).
Students also need to
show K&U of contexts
INFLUENCING radio
programming (AO1.2)
In this section there are two
questions.
Only TWO out of the three
media forms in this section
will be assessed each
series.
In the specimen paper Radio
and Video Games are
assessed.
Any of the non-theory
subject content for media
industries and audiences
could be targeted in each
question (spec pages 27-28).
As a rough guide:
• 10 mark questions equate to 15
minutes writing time
• 15 mark questions equate to 25
minutes writing time
• 30 mark questions equate to 50
minutes writing time
Questions in this section are ALL
focussed on AO1 (AO1.1 and
AO1.2) – ‘knowledge and
understanding’.
This section will not feature:
• analysis questions; or
• theory questions.
This question asks students to show their K&U of
video games (AO1.1).
For example, this question is specifically targeting
subject content point 10 on page 27 of the spec:
“the impact of digitally convergent media platforms
on media production, distribution and circulation,
including individual producers “
It also allows responses to potentially touch on a
number of elements of audience subject content.
AO1.1 (5%)
AO1.2 (2.5%)
AO1.1 (7.5%)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/r1institutionquestions-181205112858/85/R1-institution-questions-5-320.jpg)
R1 institution questions
- 1. Public Service Broadcasting What is public service broadcasting? Who are the public service broadcasters in the UK? What is the aim of public service broadcasting and how does it differ from other broadcasting? What is the future for public service broadcasting? What does this have to do with Radio 1 Breakfast Show?
- 2. History of PSBs • The BBC, whose broadcasting in the UK is funded by a licence fee and does not sell advertising time, is most notable for being the first public service broadcaster in the UK. Its first director general, Lord Reith introduced many of the concepts that would later define public service broadcasting in the UK when he adopted the mission to "inform, educate and entertain". • With the launch of the first commercial broadcaster ITV in 1955, the government required that the local franchises fulfilled a similar obligation, mandating a certain level of local news coverage, arts and religious programming, in return for the right to broadcast.
- 3. History of PSB • The next commercial television broadcasters in the UK, the state-owned Channel 4 and S4C, were set up by the government in 1981 to provide different forms of public broadcasting. Channel 4 was required to be a public service alternative to the BBC and to cater for minorities and arts. S4C was to be a mainly Welsh language programmer. Neither was required to be commercially successful as Channel 4 was subsidised by the ITV network and S4C received a grant from the central government. However, Channel 4 was later restructured under the Broadcasting Act 1990 to be a state owned corporation that is self-financing and from 2013 the BBC took over funding for S4C. • When the final analogue terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 5, was launched in 1997 it too was given a number of public service requirements. These included the obligation to provide minimum amounts of programming from various genres, minimum amounts of programming originally commissioned by the channel and of European origin, and maximum limits on the number of repeats.
- 4. Sir David Attenborough, lecture on Future of Public Service Broadcasting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coaOTKGtvNg
- 5. 1. Explain why popular music radio programmes struggle to gain recognition as Public Service Broadcasting. Refer to The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show to support your answer. In your answer you must also: • Explain how political, cultural and economic contexts influence the status of popular music radio programming. [15] 2. Explain the impact of digitally convergent media platforms on video game production, distribution and consumption. Refer to Minecraft to support your answer. [15] Section A: Media Industries and Audiences This question asks students to show their K&U of radio in relation to PSB (AO1.1). Students also need to show K&U of contexts INFLUENCING radio programming (AO1.2) In this section there are two questions. Only TWO out of the three media forms in this section will be assessed each series. In the specimen paper Radio and Video Games are assessed. Any of the non-theory subject content for media industries and audiences could be targeted in each question (spec pages 27-28). As a rough guide: • 10 mark questions equate to 15 minutes writing time • 15 mark questions equate to 25 minutes writing time • 30 mark questions equate to 50 minutes writing time Questions in this section are ALL focussed on AO1 (AO1.1 and AO1.2) – ‘knowledge and understanding’. This section will not feature: • analysis questions; or • theory questions. This question asks students to show their K&U of video games (AO1.1). For example, this question is specifically targeting subject content point 10 on page 27 of the spec: “the impact of digitally convergent media platforms on media production, distribution and circulation, including individual producers “ It also allows responses to potentially touch on a number of elements of audience subject content. AO1.1 (5%) AO1.2 (2.5%) AO1.1 (7.5%)
- 6. Explain why popular music radio programmes struggle to gain recognition as Public Service Broadcasting. Refer to The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show to support your answer. In your answer you must also: Explain how political, cultural and economic contexts influence the status of popular music radio programming Explain how radio programmes fulfil the criteria of the institutional values. Refer to The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show to support your answer.