Public Service Radio

Our Public Service Radio is BBC. BBC is the biggest employer in the radio industry employing almost 11,000 people to provide its portfolio of national and local services. The licences fee for radio is £2.11 per household per month.
The BBC has ten radio stations serving the whole of the UK, a further six stations in the "national regions" (Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland), and 40 other local stations serving defined areas of England. Of the ten national stations, five are major stations and are available on FM and/or AM as well as on DAB and online. These are BBC Radio 1, offering new music and popular styles and being notable for its chart show; BBC Radio 2, playing Adult contemporary, country and soul music amongst many other genres; BBC Radio 3, presenting classical and jazz music together with some spoken-word programming of a cultural nature in the evenings; BBC Radio 4, focusing on current affairs, factual and other speech-based programming, including drama and comedy; and BBC Radio 5 Live, broadcasting 24-hour news, sport and talk programmes.

There is five national networks which are Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 and lastly Radio 5 Live. There is five Digital Only Services are 1 Xtra, Radio 4 Extra, Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, 6 Music and finally The Asian Network. BBC A&M is also responsible for 5 national networks broadcast exclusively on digital platforms and online.
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting news, speech and discussions in 27 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, inter net streaming, podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays. The World Service was reported to have reached 188 million people a week on average in June 2009. It does not carry advertising, and the English language service broadcasts 24 hours a day.
For a worldwide audience, the BBC World Service  is available in over 150 capital cities. It is broadcast worldwide on shortwave radio, DAB and online and has an estimated weekly audience of 180 million listeners. Since 2005, it is also available on DAB in the UK, a step not taken before, due to the way it is funded. The service is funded by a Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid, administered by the Foreign Office, however following the Governments spending review in 2011, this funding will cease, and it will be funded for the first time through the Licence fee. In recent years, some services of the World Service have been reduced; the Thai service ended in 2006 as did the Eastern European languages, with resources diverted instead into the new BBC Arabic Television.

Charter
The BBC operates under a Royal Charter, with the current Charter having come into effect on 1 January 2007 and still running until 31 December 2016. The Royal Charter is reviewed every 10 years. The 2007 Charter specifies that the mission of the Corporation is to 'inform, educate and entertain'. It states that the Corporation exists to serve the public interest and to promote its public purposes: sustaining citizenship and civil society, promoting education and learning, stimulating creativity and cultural excellence, representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities, bringing the UK to the world and the world and the world to the UK, helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services, and taking a leading role in the switchover to digital television.
This Charter also created the largest change in the governance of the Corporation since its inception. It abolished the sometimes controversial governing body, the Board of Governors, and replaced it with the BBC Trust and a formalised Executive Board.
Under the Royal Charter, the BBC must obtain a licence from the Home Secretary. This licence is accompanied by an agreement which sets the terms and conditions under which BBC is allowed to broadcast. It was under this Licence and Agreement that the Sinn Fein broadcast ban from 1988 to 1994 was implemented.

BBC Trust
The BBC Trust is when they make sure that the BBC follow their charter, not made up by BBC staff.  The Trust will perform these roles in the public interest.
The BBC Trust was formed on 1 January 2007, replacing the Board of Governors as the governing body of the Corporation. The Trust sets the strategy for the corporation, assesses the performance of the BBC Executive Board in delivering the BBC's services, and appoints the Director-General.
BBC Trustees are appointed by the British monarch on advice of government ministers. There are currently ten trustees with two vacancies, headed by the Chairman, Lord Patten of Barnes and the vice-chairman Diane Coyle. There are trustees for the four constituents of the United Kingdom are; England (Alison Hastings), Scotland (Bill Matthews), Wales (Elan Closs Stephens) and Northern Ireland (Rotha Johnston). The remaining four trustees are Richard Ayre, Anthony Fry, David Liddiment and Mehmuda Mian.

BBC Commissioning
They wanted someone to be recognised, not just some people who had no experiences with radio. They need to be an registered production company. The next stage is for the company to look for what radio stations want and get ideas. They will then prepare an idea/pitch to put forward and see if the stations want them. At the moment, they want new ideas for  Radio 1/ Radio 1 Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4/ Radio 4 Extra, Radio 5 Live, Radio 6 Music, World Service, Asian Network, Regions, Local Radio and Interactive.