L2 BTEC Creative Media ProductionIG1 Task 1 WorksheetBroadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats

BROADCASTTerrestrial radio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

‘The wireless transmission through space of electromagnetic waves in the approximate frequency range from 10 kilohertz to 300,000 megahertz’.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Terrestrial+radio

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:

The wireless waves have a frequency range of 10 kilohertz to 300,000 megahertz’.

Digital audio broadcasting (DAB) FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

‘Digital audio broadcasting (DAB), also known as digital radio and high-definition radio, is audio broadcasting in which analog audio is converted into a digital signal and transmitted on an assigned channel in the AM or (more usually) FM frequency range. DAB is said to offer compact disc (CD)- quality audio on the FM (frequency modulation) broadcast band and to offer FM-quality audio on the AM (amplitude modulation) broadcast band. The technology was first deployed in the United Kingdom in 1995, and has become common throughout Europe’.

http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/digital-audio-broadcasting

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:

a digital signal is transmitted on an assigned channel in the AM or FM frequency range and has become common throughout Europe’..

L2 BTEC Creative Media ProductionIG1 Task 1 WorksheetBroadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats

News and features packages FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

‘Feature Packages are stories grouped by theme and transmitted to feature desk editors at national daily and weekly publications and broadcast outlets. Editors rely on these stories to fill special sections and reports throughout the year, such as Back to School, Travel and Personal Finance’.

http://www2.prnewswire.com/features/main.shtml

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:Feature packages are based on something that the newspaper or radio want for example BBc use Reporters to go out and find the stories then the information gets filterd back to BBc.

Music and speech based programming

FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

The BBC runs ten national radio stations offering distinctive, high

quality music and speech programming to audiences across the

UK. They are available via analogue and digital radio, digital

television and online. Additionally, there are stations for

audiences in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and local

radio stations throughout England.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whatwedo/radio/

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:

Music based programming is more music based with less speech for example Radio 1 were as speech radio is more speech than mucic for example Radio 4.

L2 BTEC Creative Media ProductionIG1 Task 1 WorksheetBroadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats

Radio drama FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

‘Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play,[1] radio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio dramadepends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:

Radio drama is mostly speech based with interviews and reports.

Commercials FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

‘Advertising, paid classified messages in newspapers, magazines, flyers, billboards, and paid announcements over radio and television to sell a product, item or service.Radio advertisement, paid announcements over the radio to sell a product, item or service’http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:Commercials also known as advertisements is were a company pays someone or a group of people to advertise their company.

L2 BTEC Creative Media ProductionIG1 Task 1 WorksheetBroadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats

NON-BROADCASTPodcasts FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

‘A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio radio,video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device’http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:Podcast are usually dialog through conversations or someone explaining something.

Internet radio FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

‘Internet radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radiowebcasting) is an audio service transmitted via the Internet. Music streaming on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through wireless means’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:Internet radio is radio just being streamed through a computer.

L2 BTEC Creative Media ProductionIG1 Task 1 WorksheetBroadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats

AUDIO FORMATSCD FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

The Compact Disc, or CD for short, is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-R)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:A cd Is a compact disk to store digital data .

Music TV FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

Music television is a type of television programming which focuses predominantly on playing music videos from bands, usually on dedicated television channels broadcasting on satellite or cable. Music TVs may host their own shows charts, award prizes. Examples are VIVA, Scuzz, MTV, JBTV, MuchMusic, Kerrang TV, VH1, Fuse TV, and Palladia Wigan Pier’http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_television

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:Mucic tv is mucick channels for example MTV play some of the top ten songs .

L2 BTEC Creative Media ProductionIG1 Task 1 WorksheetBroadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats

Wav FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due to its filename extension), (also, but rarely, named, Audio for Windows[ is aMicrosoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) bitstream format’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:Wav is a audio format for a programme on a computer.

MP3 FOUND DEFINITION AND WEBSITE ADDRESS:

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III more commonly referred to as MP3, is apatented encoding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players’.

EXPLANATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS:Mp3 is the same as wav just played through a digital signal.

L2 BTEC Creative Media ProductionIG1 Task 1 WorksheetBroadcast and Non-Broadcast Audio Products and Formats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3