Summary
Contents
The SAGE Key Concepts series provide students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension. Key Concepts in Journalism offers a systematic and accessible introduction to the terms, processes, and effects of journalism;a combination of practical considerations with theoretical issues; and further reading suggestions. The authors bring an enormous range of experience in newspaper and broadcast journalism, at national and regional level, as well as their teaching expertise. This book will be essential reading for students in journalism, and an invaluable reference tool for their professional careers.
Promise of Performance
Promise of Performance
In order to be awarded a full licence to launch a commercial radio station, applicants have to tell the regulatory body Ofcom (which superseded the Radio Authority), among other things, the shape of their programming. This covers everything from how much music, what sort of music, how much speech, what sort of speech, how much news, how much of it local. It bears some comparison to the efforts in the early 1990s to introduce a ‘quality threshold’ into television licensing but without applicants having to reach a particular standard.
This publicly available ‘promise of performance’ is a formal undertaking on the part of the applicant. It can be modified or clarified during the application process but will determine the station's character ...