Monday, 9 December 2013

Lo:1 Vlog1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usQNSTHwXgs
V log 1

Intro

Hello I am Harry the C.E.O of H.F.S Media. I am here today to tell you a little about the company I own and the massively successful industry of media.H.F.S is a newly formed company that was made to educate the public on the lingo and world of media. The vlog you are watching now is one of the way we are trying to do this. It would be best to start off on what is media. Media is a new thing in the world. There are 3 main industries publish (things like newspapers and magazines), radio (that is self explanortery) and TV (televised programs, films).  A company make a product for a specific audience. The things that take in to consideration are social grade, age, religion, gender and race. Conglomerates will make a product aimed at a set of the things I have just said. Conglomerates will make a newspaper for people of high class then make a seconds for people of a different one like working. An example of thing Bauer they own the times and the sun. This will make them a lot more money as the two newspaper are aimed a very different audience. An independent company is a company that is note owned by a conglomerate.If a company is owned by a conglomerate is becomes a subsidiary of that conglomerate. 

Ownership

Ownership in its simplest term is who owns something. But it gets much more complicated then that. There are conglomerate, independent, cross media and subsidiary. There are a couple of ways that a company can become a conglomerate. There is old fashion way of just buying out other company’s/competitors. Then there is the seconds an institutional convergence where two or more company’s join to make a more successful one. The Radio station I will be looking at is Hallam FM. Hallam FM is a subsidiary of Bauer. Bauer is a massive Cross-Media Conglomerate.


Operating Modle  

Hallam FM has different departments that work well together if there are any big events happening with in Hallam FM the marketing department will make sure that it has a wide rang of different way that the listeners can find out more information about it. To make the brand of Hallam FM bigger they are sponsors of different place such as Ponds Forge, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United    

Programmes

Hallam FM has many popular and much loved presenters like Big John, Seven White and Simon Morykin. All of them have there own show on Hallam FM. Big John has Big John @ Breakfast Steve White has Drivetime and Simon Morykin has playing you the variety.     

Market Position
Hallam FM uses a company called RAJAR (RAJAR are "Radio Joint Audience Research Limited" and are the best at measuring radio audiences in the UK, owned by the BBC.) to find out the listener figures and to see if Hallam FM is still number 1. The figures are also use to make Hallam FM a better radio station for the listener to enjoy.

Competitors

Hallam FM has many competitors. The biggest are BBC radio 1 and Capital FM. Bauer uses a company called RAJAR (RAJAR are "Radio Joint Audience Research Limited" and are the best at measuring radio audiences in the UK, owned by the BBC.) to find out the listener figures and to see if Hallam FM is still number 1.

Friday, 11 October 2013

sheffield live

Hallam FM is a subsidiary of bower

community radio station= not there for a profit/ for the good of the public/in order for delivers social gain. A community radio has to be some think you can learn from and talk about with in your own community. To be a community radio you have to be get permission from Ofcom
and be in the following the broadening  act (1990) and the community radio order (2004). Community Radio Station cannot operate as such if its "ethos" and output does not cross over with the main commercial channels. TSA - Target Sample Area

Sheffield live is an independent and non-profit radio station as such it operates in a different way as it is a much smaller scale radio station because of that they will try to minimize cost. Sheffield live is aimed at the residents of Sheffield. Sheffield live target underplayed music genres like  Mandarin, reggae, Asian music unlike Hallam FM and other big radio stations Sheffield live caters for groups of the public that would not normally get catered for. The independent company who run Sheffield live is Commmedia Sheffield LTD It is run by Sangita Basudev. Sheffield live can not get more then 50% of there running cost payed with ad revenue  because then they would not be coast as a community radio by Ofcom so the rest is made in by donations .Sheffield Live reaches 11% of their audience, in other words they reach around 32,000 listeners a week. 
 Sheffield Live!'S Audience:

  • Central    
  • Nether Edge
  • Broomhill
  • Crookes
  • Walkley


Keyterms

Independent radio
Community radio
Ofcom
Public service broadcasting= PSB

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Unit 1:Project Work

Who is the main target audience for BBC Radio Sheffield?

The main target audience for BBC Radio Sheffield are residents in the city of Sheffield.

What is the audience reach?

18.6%

Sunday, 29 September 2013

KTA1 : Additional Research

Other Radio Stations

BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 Extra
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Asian Network
BBC World Service

Production-The process of making a media text

Distribution-The process of getting a media text to the audience
Simulcast-Broadcast via web at the same time.
Podcast-A recording of a radio show.
Exchange- The process of an audience "consuming" a media text, i.e. listing to a radio show, watching TB programmer etc
Convergence- Two things coming together. 
Media Conglomerate- is a company who owns smaller companies. The smaller companies are know as subsidiaries 
Cross head Conglomerate- is a company that owns subsidiaries of different formats of media. (such as print and radio)

Biggest conglomerate in the world

 Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA- German media giant Bertelsmann starts our list off with nearly $21 billion in revenue and over $800 million generated in profit.

CBS Corporation- CBS has mainly controlled the network television and radio broadcasting side of the business. With the most watched network under its name, CBS 

Sky- sky generates over $10 billion in revenue and over $1.9 billion in profit

DisneyWith revenue topping $42 billion and profits of over $5.5 million

Friday, 27 September 2013

Unit:1 Learning Blog

ASA

The organization make all Radio, Television, Web, Film Trailers, Magazines and Newspaper appropriate for mass consumption.The things that they look for are

 - Adverts should not cause offence
- Adverts should not glorify alcohol, sexual activity, drug taking
- Adverts should not cause harm to children
- Adverts should not be misleading
- Adverts should not give false information about what they are selling/promoting or exaggerate claim made.

Banned Adverts

There has been a Wonger advert that was banned recently. In the advert it was stated that it had a low APR rate for the short term loan but it was over %5000 percent in reality. The ASA found the advert to be miss leading so Wonger had to stop the advert from airing and make a replace ment tthat was more clear to the viewer.

Demographic Conventions Social Grades  

  NRS social grade categories people in class, wealth and job role.
Bauer's has a %53 social grade of ABC1. Bauer's main competitor is Global Media. Bauer's radio station biggest radio station is Hallam FM and Global Media is Capital FM. Hallam FM is the number 1 radio station in south Yorkshire. It is RAJAR that collect the radio listener ship figures. RAJAR is owned by BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)


Audience Reach


Hallam FM's audience reach 361,00054% of its listeners are female37% fall into the ABC1The target demographic is 25-45Sponsors are the football stands at Sheffield United and Wednesday grounds.


Notable Hallam FM shows are Big John @ Breakfast That is the most popular of all the Hallam FM shows. It starts at 10:00 AM and ends at 03:00 PM. It play many hit from all over south Yorkshire. After Big John is Steve Wright His show starts just after Big John's ends. His show comes to a stop at 07:00PM