Since the 1960s, public service broadcasters have attempted to meet the demand for music by young listeners. As commercial radio offerings have expanded, and as public broadcasters are monitored more ...closely than before, the question arises as to what degree and in which ways public
service radio should differ from commercially formatted stations. This article analyses the differentiation strategies applied in music programming by major radio stations in targeting youth and young adults in Finland. Employing a multi-measure approach in the analysis of the content, the
results confirm that YleX, a popular music station of the public broadcaster YLE, differs significantly from its major commercial rivals Energy and The Voice. The article argues that even a radio station focusing on the latest hits can fulfil a public service mission.
With the wide spread availability and the favourable Doppler resolution, the frequency modulation (FM) commercial radio signals have become attractive for passive radar applications. Passive radar ...networks using multiple illuminators of opportunity and multichannel receivers have been shown to offer significant performance improvement owing to their advantage of signal and spatial diversities. In this study, the authors compute the joint Cramér–Rao lower bound (CRLB) for the target parameter (delay and Doppler) estimation error utilising FM commercial radio signals as illuminators of opportunity for passive radar network systems, where the non-coherent and coherent processing scenarios are considered. The numerical simulations are provided to show that the joint CRLB is not only a function of the transmitted waveforms but also of the relative geometry between the target and the passive radar networks for both non-coherent and coherent cases. The expressions for joint CRLB are an important performance metric for target parameter estimation in FM-based passive radar networks.
This article focuses on the problematic consequences of shifting boundaries of converged radio practices for individual privacies. Holding that privacy is constructed through the interrelated ...information practices of both individuals and their mediated surroundings, it addresses radio as a previously intimate and privacy friendly medium. The case of the Royal Prank call by the Australian 2DayFM radio station demonstrates how contemporary converged radio practices affect the privacies of unintended participants in their shows. In December 2012, Jacintha Saldanha, nurse of London’s Royal King Edward VII Hospital committed suicide after two Australian radio presenters had made a prank phone call pretending to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles concerned about the state of Duchess Kate’s health, who was expecting her first child. The case identifies three conditions, each with implications on privacy. First, digitization renders radio content archivable and repeatable. There is a second life of radio programs keeping available information about any people involved. Secondly, the division of radio related labour leads to a lack of journalistic responsibility for respecting privacy standards. Broadcasters feel no need to be sensitive regarding the consequences of disseminated material, as commercial and legal staff decide on that. Finally, legal frameworks continue to apply legacy radio privacy measures and do not correspond to these new working conditions, as the reactions of the Australian supervisory authority show. In consequence, the case of the Royal Prank call demonstrates the impossibility to fight individual privacy when one is unintentionally involved in radio shows.
The article deals with the influence of colloquial syntax on the spontaneous non-prepared media discourse of professional presenters. It presents a syntactic analysis of radio program broadcasts on ...two Maribor radio stations, i.e. the commercial station Radio City and the Slovene public station Radio Maribor. Specifically, the paper focuses on typical syntactic colloquial features, i.e. incomplete syntactic patterns, interruptions, repetitions and corrections.
In Australia, commercial radio stations are required to play a minimum percentage of Australian content, set by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. The percentage differs depending on ...the category of station and the style of music played. This paper considers four major commercial radio stations in Melbourne, Australia, focusing on support within the sector for Australian content. The research examines if the stations are filling the required local content quota and if they are doing so within peak times of 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. or stacking Australian music in off-peak periods.Currently, there is no up to date academic research available on commercial radio stations across Australia and the self-regulating practices designed to ensure that a suitable amount of local content is being played on air, in particular within peak airtime. This research aims to understand if there is a connection between the local content quotas and actual airplay by accessing radio station playlists available through the Radio Monitors database. The purpose of this data collection is to understand better the exact amount of support given to Australian content by commercial radio, which will help create a discourse around what should be the obligations of stations with regard to local content quotas.Keywords: local content quotas, Australian music, commercial radio, radio airplay, CRA, Commercial Radio Australia, Australian music industry
This article describes an unusual form of student instructional radio, which is organized to run as a fully commercial broadcaster. Drawing on the case of a New Zealand student station, Mode 96.1FM, ...we look at how it functions in a highly competitive commercial environment. The student-run
station reformats itself every year and attempts to emulate the styles and success of much larger national and local commercial music stations. We investigate two aspects. First, the tensions this creates between commercial, industry and educational objectives. Second, how students become
located within the commodified speech practices intrinsic to marketing and branding. We also discuss how the station attempts to reconcile these in terms of seeking out diverse listening publics.
The 1920s were boom years for college radio, with at least 90 college radio stations in the United States by January 1924. This period was also the heyday for radio at Haverford College, a small, ...all-male Quaker College near Philadelphia. Its first radio station, WABQ, was launched
by students in 1923. In the early years of the station, students embarked on a series of ambitious projects, including international wireless experiments. WABQ was sold to a commercial radio group and in its wake other stations (WHAV and WHRC) formed at Haverford. In the 1940s the station
was part of one of the first intercollegiate radio networks. By the 1980s WHRC was a campus-only AM carrier-current station. As technology evolved WHRC abandoned carrier-current for Internet-only broadcasting and by 2009 even this netcast faded away. Following some experiments with transforming
the station into a podcast-only DJ club in 2009-2010, WHRC was again resurrected as a streaming radio station in 2012. This article covers the more than 90-year history of radio at Haverford College from the 1920s to the present. It draws from historical documents and interviews with
WHAV and WHRC participants from the 1940s through 2014. The story of Haverford College radio adds another voice to the currently very limited literature documenting both the very early history of college radio and the evolution of college radio in general.
The prank call by two Sydney radio presenters who tried to speak to the Duchess of Cambridge in November 2012 was followed by the death of nurse, Jacintha Saldanha. It prompted a long-running ...investigation by Australia's broadcasting regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, into the decision to record and broadcast, without consent, conversations with Ms Saldanha and another nurse. In March 2015 the High Court of Australia held the ACMA did not require a prior decision of a court in order to find the licensee, Today FM, used the broadcasting service in the commission of an offence under surveillances devices legislation. This cleared the way for the ACMA to find Today FM breached a condition of its license. The case resolves a question concerning the ACMA's formal powers, but the investigation also reveals deficiencies in the industry-based codes of practice.
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