How does radio one make money

I'm just curious, just off adverts? surely that wouldn't support them. They need to pay for competitions, equipment, licences and not to mention all there music yet offer pay slips of the djs.

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BBC Radio 1? They have the BBC behind them :P I think they get alot of calls as well which they get some money for through rates via texts and calls.

Quite alot of singers and bands won't take money, some may even give money to Radio 1 to promote them.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

BBC Radio 1? They have the BBC behind them :P I think they get alot of calls as well which they get some money for through rates via texts and calls.

Quite alot of singers and bands won't take money, some may even give money to Radio 1 to promote them.

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never thought of that what about local radios etc they wouldnt have large companys behind them.

Local radios tend to have local businesses, advertising companies using them (Heart FM for example) and sponsorship from councils :)

BBC is funded by us.

We pay for all BBC radio stations I thought ? It's why on the BBC channels on tv there are no adverts

as for local radios, they don't have that many competitions, and all the need to pay for is electric, wages, and rent. Plus a few others. They have advertising which goes for quote a lot too, and prob play them more than most radios

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Originally Posted by Richie

I'm just curious, just off adverts? surely that wouldn't support them. They need to pay for competitions, equipment, licences and not to mention all there music yet offer pay slips of the djs.

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Radio One has no adverts. Its not allowed. BBC and all its channels ans radio stations are paid for by TV License.

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Originally Posted by Richie

never thought of that what about local radios etc they wouldnt have large companys behind them.

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Quite often you will find that smaller local radio stations in fact do have larger companies running them.

Take the heart network for example, which runs from Global Radio.

Then before that you had the "one network" which was ran by GCAP Media who was bought out by Global early last year.

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Originally Posted by Myke

Quite often you will find that smaller local radio stations in fact do have larger companies running them.

Take the heart network for example, which runs from Global Radio.

Then before that you had the "one network" which was ran by GCAP Media who was bought out by Global early last year.

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''The top 10 radio owners with the most listeners
1. BBC national radio (33.2m)
2. Global Radio (18.1m) ''

The top 10 radio stations with the most listeners
1. BBC Radio 2 (13.5m)
2. BBC Radio 1 (10.8m)
3. BBC Radio 4 (9.9m)
4. Heart (7.3m)

I wouldn't really call Heart a local radio hehe anyway ye a lot of artists would pay radio stations to play their music if the radio is popular i.e. Simon Cowell might pay a radio station to play the X Factor winners song / Jedward etc.

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Originally Posted by Alkaz

''The top 10 radio owners with the most listeners
1. BBC national radio (33.2m)
2. Global Radio (18.1m) ''

The top 10 radio stations with the most listeners
1. BBC Radio 2 (13.5m)
2. BBC Radio 1 (10.8m)
3. BBC Radio 4 (9.9m)
4. Heart (7.3m)

I wouldn't really call Heart a local radio hehe anyway ye a lot of artists would pay radio stations to play their music if the radio is popular i.e. Simon Cowell might pay a radio station to play the X Factor winners song / Jedward etc.

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Local radio meaning local as in it's local to the area.
Some of the shows are networked, agreed, but Ofcom regulates that what is called a "Local" radio station must have atleast I think, 10 hours of Local broadcasting. Heart is a local station, the BRAND heart, is national.