Brainstorm Preliminary

18th November

Music jingle- http://www.jinglesfactory.com/

(music to move you, your music your station)

Glossary of radio terminology

A


AQH Share

Active EMI reduction

Air interface

Aircheck

Alternative frequency

Angle of arrival

Antenna gain

Automatic message exchange

B

Block programming

Block upconverter

Blooper

Broadcast programming

Brokered programming

C

Callsigns in North America

Capture effect

Clear-channel station

Coverage (telecommunication)

Coverage map

Creeping wave

D

Dayparting

Deep cut

Digital Weatherman

Drive time

E

Emission (radiocommunications)

F

Falsing

G

Graveyard slot

G cont.

Guest host

H

Helix building

I

In-band on-channel

Independent radio

Ionosphere

ISDB

L

Listening station

Local Multipoint Distribution Service

Local programming

M

Minimum detectable signal

Music rotation

N

Narrowband

Network affiliate

P

Panelist

Peak envelope power

Preemphasis improvement

Public affairs (broadcasting)

Q

Quasi-synchronous transmission

R

Radio advertisement

Radio fingerprinting

Radio sweeper

Recurrent rotation

Repeater

Rimshot (broadcasting)

S

Shortwave

Sidetone

S cont.

Sign-off

Simulcast

Sister station

Skip (radio)

Skip distance

Skyside 6

Spin (radio)

Spot beam

Station identification

Stressed environment

Strip programming

Stunting (broadcasting)

Superpulse

T

Theme music

Time of arrival

Time spent listening

Tradio

Traffic (broadcasting)

Transceiver

Transcription discs

Trimulcast

V

Voice-tracking

W

Waveguide rotary joint

Winmor

Wireless telegraphy

Semiotics

The three branches of semiotics:

Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata


Syntactics: Relation of signs to each other in formal structures

Pragmatics: Relation of signs to their impacts on those who use them

Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions, for example Umberto Eco proposes that every cultural phenomenon can be studied as communication. However, some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas belonging also to the natural sciences - such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics or zoosemiosis.

The coconut lounge

Targets-

• to be able to upload songs of choice on the GHS radio
• to re-record jingle
• to upload jingle
• to write out a short script of a small section of the radio show
• to create posters to promote the radio show

What we have been doing is recording our jingle for The Coconut Lounge, the steps in which we have been doing to achieve this is by visiting websites to choose what theme tune we wish to use for our jingle. We have visited websites such as Mister Bo Jingle, which specializes in songs to use for making jingles which is free of download. We have been planning our timeline for our 20 minute show, stating what topics we want to discuss and the certain songs we want to play.

Timeline of radio

1920-Radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom commenced in 1920 from Guglielmo Marconi's trial station 2MT situated in Writtle, Essex. It was the development of the Thermionic Valve in 1906 that enabled Marconi to finally create a dependable 'Carrier Wave' that would transmit voice and music from the trial station 2MT in 1920, rather than the spark-gap carriers that were deployed to create the dots and dashes used by the Morse code indications for the past twenty years.

1922-In October 1922 the government granted the British Broadcasting Company the permit to function and November 14th 1922 saw the ceremonious inaugural of the BBC London station 2LO.
On 15th November 1922 the BBC was registered and the BBC Manchester station 2ZY, was officially opened on 375 meters transmitting
On November 16th BBC Birmingham opened with 5IT transmitting from the General Electric Company works at Witton using 420 meters. BBC Newcastle, 5NO, was the last station to open in 1922 from a transmitter at Eldon Square using 400 meters. These 'main' stations broadcast with a power of 1.5 kilowatts.
BBC Newcastle, 5NO, was the last station to open in 1922 from a transmitter at Eldon Square using 400 meters. These 'main' stations broadcast with a power of 1.5 kilowatts.

1923-On January 17th 1923 the original station 2MT in Essex was closed, but more BBC stations were to be established around the country: BBC Cardiff, 5WA, opened on February 13th on 353m from a transmitter at the Castle Avenue electric works; BBC Glasgow, 5SC, opened using a transmitter at Port Dundas on 420m, while BBC Aberdeen, 2BD, started on October 10th using 459m from a transmitter at the Aberdeen Steam Laundry. BBC Bournemouth, 2BD, opened on October 17th on 385m from a transmitter at North Cemetery, and on the 16th November 2FL Sheffield opened.



1924-saw more expansion with the opening of 5PY Plymouth on 28th March, the 2EH Edinburgh relay of 5SC on May 1st and in June stations 6LV and 2LS were opened to bring a relay of 2ZY to Liverpool and Leeds/Bradford. On September 15th 1924 BBC Belfast, 2BE, was opened. Other relay stations were also opened; 6KH in Hull; 5NG in Nottingham; 2DE in Dundee; 6ST in Stoke on Trent and 5SX in Swansea, which opened on the 12th December 1924.

Media studies homework-an interesting news article

Three British men have been prosecuted twice, and are facing a life sentence in jail, as their plan to perform a launch of suicide bomb attacks using liquid bombs on a succesion of transatlantic airliners has been discovered. The jury was told by the prosecutors about 18 months ago that they were going to disguise liquid bombs as soft drinks bottles. This was the plot that caused chaos to international aviation because liquids were almost entirely banned from hand luggage on planes, which is still a case continued today. The first jury prosecuted the men of conspiracy to murder thinking that their only target was planes, but then a retrial took place and the second jury has found them guilty of trageting ordinary travellers. The three ringleaders include Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain. Emails, and suspicious discoveries such as a tub of powdered drink filled with an unusual number of batteries all were supportive evidence, discovering that these men were arranging bomb attacks. Now they are going to face a very lengthy sentence in jail.