Monday, 17 March 2014
Monday, 27 January 2014
Radio Codes and Regulations
Regulation & Codes of Practice
A) What are the names of the two companies that licence radio stations to play music?
□ MLA & RPS
□ PPL & PRS
□ PPS & PSS
For a bonus point, what do the above acronyms stand for:
B) Performing Right Society
C) Phonographic Performance Limited
D) What else do the above companies collect and distribute for music artists/songwriters/publishers?
They collect Royalties which are taxs on radios that play artist songs, then give the royalty payment to the artists.
E) What would happen if a shop / club / radio station didn’t purchase licences from these bodies and were found out by the PRS/PPL?
They would be either taken off air, or fined for distribution of artists music without consent.
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F) What is the name of the regulator of the Broadcast and Telecommunications Industries?
OFCOM
G The document that sets out the principles, meanings and "practices to be followed” by the Broadcast industries is called the:
The BROADCASTING CODE
H) Name three of the areas (sections) of the “Code” and two examples of what that section states you cannot do on Radio.
1) Language, you must not use offensive language during any air time of radio broadcasting.
2) Promoting drugs, you mustn't use the station to idolize any form of illegal drug.
3) Crime, you're not allowed to show crime as a good thing, this is to protect under 18's from persuading them to have bad behavior.
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