Radio Codes and Regulation

Regulation & Codes of Practice

A) What are the names of the two companies that licence radio stations to play music?

□ MLA & RPS

X PPL & PRS

□ PPS & PSS

            For a bonus point, what do the above acronyms stand for:

B) Phonograohic Performance Limited

C) Performing Right Society

D) What else do the above companies collect and distribute for music artists/songwriters/publishers? Give money to artist each time song is played.

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 get fined.

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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) Section Two: Harm and Offence. Cannot lie about a competition. Cannot tell someone how to harm themselves.

2) Section Three: Crime. Cannot describe criminal techniques. Cannot broadcast material that could endanger lives or prejudice the success of attempts to deal with a hijack or kidnapping.

3) Section One: Protecting the Under-Eighteens. The most offensive language must not be broadcast before the watershed (in the case of television) or when children are particularly likely to be listening. Offensive language must not be used in programmes made for younger children except in the most exceptional circumstances.