Public Radio
In commercial Radio there are 3 main national channels which
are Absolute Radio, classic FM and talk SPORT. With BBC there has been digital
Radio brought in and made many changes this is included in the roll-out of
local Stations such as Xfm, Kiss 100 and Kerrang Radio in the United Kingdom.
Commercial Radio Licenses come from
Ofcom which is a Government body which advertises a license in a local area and
holds a beauty contest. When trying to get a License off Ofcom they hand in a
detailed application containing a proposed format and outcome of research to
determine the demand for their particular style of broadcast, the last radio
station to get a license from them was Original 106 (Aberdeen).
Most local radio station in the UK
broadcast to different cities or groups of towns with a radius of 20-50 miles,
the predominant format is pop music, but there are many different other tastes
that are catered for different areas and for different digital Radio’s.
Rather than operating different
Independent entities, many different radio stations are owned by larger radio
companies which broadcast to similar areas, the largest radio company is Global
radio which was brought by the former media group Gcap Media, this group owns
Classic FM and London’s most popular station 95.8 Capital FM, other groups are
Bauer radio and UTV Radio.
Community Radio
In the smaller areas of the UK
normally with in the 3-5 mile radius there are not profit organisations, owned
by the local people which are different volunteers, they are recognized by the community radio
movement in the UK which was founded in the mid-1970s.
In the Local Area Middlesbrough we
have our Local radio station Community Voice FM, this is not profit
organisation that operates in the local area of Middlesbrough in the Teesside
Area, and they started broadcasting in august 2009 and aim to serve the
population and the surrounding areas.
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