Radio

Radio

(every possible question that could come up in exam is in revision guide)

OFCOM - regulates Radio and TV in the UK

Late Night Women's Hour
- It's broadcasted on BBC radio 4
- it's a spin-off from the long running BBC Radio 4 daily magazine programme, Woman's        hour
- Infrequent broadcasting schedule - once a month, late at night and varies in length 
- features a number of female panellists
- Each episode focuses on a particular theme relevant to it's female target audience
It is post-watershed - which is a form of self regulation where they will include more adult      programming and will swear etc. - it is played at 11pm 


Episode we listened to and need to reference = Home (first broadcasted in 2016)
- Speak about recent trends about homes 
- largely speak about
- target audience = middle aged woman, middle class 
- speaking about IKEA and Tiger - presuming the audience would know what they are            talking about
- speaking about knitting, cooking and craft = assuming it's something woman do =                  stereotypical
- Jobs of panellists = chef, author, furniture designer, psychiatrist = all professionals - all          have specific skills and jobs
- potentially aimed at feminists - brings up issues like body issues 
- the lexis is well spoken, articulate and well educated = shows how they are middle          class 
- "At the moment i'm wearing a dress that i made...it's really a practical thing" = very middle    class - she's pointing out skills she has and how it's not regular to be able to make your        own things
- "i will be engaging with craft with my three year old" - makes it sound more interesting
- "the accoutrements of modern society" - says a french word to show she is well educated
- "it exists in apposition to an imagined context..."
- " i'm using it as a metonym"
- "i will mainly be putting my books away" - they are very intelligent, brag that they have a         lot of books and are very clever
- this show is targeting an extremely target audience

Stuart Hall - reception theory
The preferred, negotiated and oppositional reading
Preferred = agree with the producer 
Oppositional = disagree with the producer 
negotiated = agree with part of the producer's reading but leave some out 
aberrant = completely wrong - didn't understand it

preferred reading of this clip = meant to feel sorry for her - she's been evicted by her landlord, doesn't have a permanent home etc. (normally when evicted people become homeless but she stays at her brother's - she says it's fine) - she says it's a minor inconvenience 
oppositional reading = we might hate her for being a snob, being privileged and not really thinking about how if someone else may not be able to stay at families house. 
Cannot relate to this is any way. 
she has 20 books - the rest of the panel gasp - surprised she only has 20 books 
negotiated readings = feel sorry for her house but then frustrated as she's upset over a mug


Late Night Women's Hour is remarkably similar to Women Magazine as they are still talking about home but in Late Night Women's hour they dont talk about men at all which is called Symbolic Annihilation

Broadcasting is distributing a media product to a mass audience - this is essentially invented when it came to radio - gets media into peoples homes - there was a suspicion about mass media distribution due to propaganda, this is included radio and TV

The BBC was established 1922 

The Woman's Hour - background info
- was first broadcast in 1946 on BBC's Light Programme at 2pm intended to fit around            womanly chores and collected children from school
- was created to encourage woman to rebuild homes after ww2
- before 1998 the last hour was dedicated to readings 
- the show was labelled "misogynistic" and "patronising" - could also be said it was sexist        as it was for men
- after 64years, mens hour began - first introduced in 2004 and then properly in 2010
- Late Night Woman's Hour (spin off) started in 2015
- Women's hour arguably reinforces hegemonic norms and values - 

How have sociohistorical factors lead to a diversification of media output?

socio-historical = how social factors change overtime 
diversification = the process of making something more varied

1940's = everyone listened to the same radio at the time as there were very few 

digitally convergent technology has led to diversification of media 

ideological perspectives of movement have changed over the years - Women's Liberation movement 

Late Night Women's hour - 11pm slot = graveyard slot as no one is listening to the radio at this time - people generally listen to Late Night Women's hour through streaming it on their phones 

Vagina's/Pockets = Late Night Women's Hour episode: 
- literally talking about Vagina's and pockets
- pause before she first says Vagina - not normally allowed to say it on radio - Vagina is          sometimes seen as being a taboo 
- specifically talking about female body odour - it's a taboo because it's not really spoken        about = diversification 
- some people may be offended by this topic is a more traditionally conservative (more old      fashioned values) audience
- very informal mode of address - much more chatty
- one woman shouted "Vagina" very loudly on the radio after they said it was okay for them    to do
- socio-historical factors have changed = fluidity of hegemonic norms changing has allowed    topics like these to be spoken about on the radio
- potentially controversial view that women dont have to do 
- very important conversation but they dont go into it in a lot of detail 













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