Commercial Radio

Commercial Radio:
Commercial radio is a Radio that generates income by selling air time to companies, which are filled with commercial advertisements. The money from the advertisements create money to run the radio station and also creates profits.

Their Aims:

Their aims are to get the highest number of listeners possible, they play mainstream music which is popular and attracts the listeners. The BBC is a public service broadcaster and this means that they care more the needs of different audiences rather than the high amounts of viewers. In the UK the only commercial station nationwide is Classic FM, they are owned by Sky. However It is not the most listened to rather it is Capital radio which gets the most viewers in a week. Both Classic FM and Capital radio is owned by Global radio. The radio station Real radio are owned by Guardian Media group,a ll three of these are Commercial radio stations.