The BBC

Radio 1:
This radio station focuses on providing young listeners with great entertainment, and a mix of new artists and songs which are trending currently. They say their purpose is to "entertain and engage a broad range of young listeners with a distinctive mix of contemporary music and speech."
The target audience is 15-29 but also aims to younger teenagers. Programs such as Fire In The Booth on Radio 1 Extra provide the audiences with content from upcoming and trendy UK and US Grime stars.
Programs on this station:
- Nick Grimshaw Breakfast Show.
- Newsbeat.
- Greg James.
- Charlie Sloth.
- Pete Tong.
- 1 xtra's takeover.

Radio 2:
The remit of Radio 2 is to show mixed music with great speech service, targeted at a broad audience of over 35's. The station offers entertaining music programs and speech-based content including news, readings, arts, religion and current affairs.
Programs on this station:
- Chris Evans breakfast show.
- Jeremy Vine.
- Sarah Cox, sound of the 80s.
- Steve Wright Sunday Love Songs.

Radio 3:
This station is designed to offer a mix of music and cultural segments in order to interest their target audience of people aged over 55 years of age. It has a lot of classical and jazz music and has more relaxed themes in order to cater to its older audience. This station stays very true to the mission to enrich people's lives with programmes that inform and educate as well as being the most creative organisation in the world.
Programs on this station:
- Composer of the week.
- Afternoon Concert.
- Music Matters.
- Jazz Now.

Radio 4:
This station provides minimal music coverage and is designed to be a mixed speech service, with a wide coverage of news and other speech (drama readings, comedy, factual and magazine programmes). It is targeted at an ABC1 audience aged 34-39 year-olds. This station stays very true to the mission to enrich people's lives with programmes that inform and educate.
Programs on this station include:
- Midnight News.
- Shipping Forecast.
- Prayer for the Day.
- Weather.
- You and Yours.
- Six o'clock News.

Radio 5:
The remit of this station is to provide live news and sports coverage, to a target audience of mainly sports lovers from all ethnic backgrounds. It is seen as the main BBC station to bring listeners live and up to date news stories as they happen. Regarding sports, the station often has viewers ring up, or guests in the studio to analyse recent sporting fixtures.
The station has a multi-purpose to entertain, inform and involve.
Programs on this station:
- 5 live Breakfast
- 5 live Sport.
- 5 live Drive.
- Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy.
- Up All Night.
- Morning Reports.

Radio 6:
The remit of BBC 6 Music is to entertain lovers of popular music with a service that celebrates the alternative spirit in popular music from the 1960s to the present day.
Its programmes juxtapose current releases outside the mainstream, including music from the BBC Sound Archive. It should provide context for the music it plays, and support live music and new artists.
Programs on this station:
- Chris Hawkins.
- Laura Laverne.


The sites that follow their PSB remits most clearly in my opinion are BBC radio 4 and radio 5 live. Radio 4 has taken on strong reputation as being a relaxing radio station with a variety of conversation to retain the same target audience year after year with very minimalist changes to their programs despite drastic changes in technology. Secondly, BBC radio 5 live has stayed true to it's sports fans by not adding things that do not fit with the sporting/news theme. They still have lots of interactivity with listeners through call-ins and expert analysis with guests after a sporting fixture. 

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