Children In Need Information.

Children In Need was first created in 1980 to help raise money for children. Since it first started in 1980 it has helped raised over 500 million. Children In Need is one of two high profile British telethons the other being Red Nose Day.

Each year for one night only in November the BBC sets aside all programmes for that evening and shows the event aimed at raising money exclusively destined for charities working with children in the UK. In 2009 the charity raised over £20million on the broadcast evening. The event also covers across the other BBC channels and radio shows.

In 1985 'Pudsey' was introduced and became a regular feature, in 1989 Children In Need was registered as a charity. 2007 the logo and Pudsey was redesigned.

The BBC's first broadcast appeal took place in 1927, in a five minute radio broadcast on Christmas Day, the appeal raised £1,143 where now days that equals to about £27, 150. The first televised appeal took place in 1955 and was called the Children's Hour Christmas Appeal with the puppet Sooty bear and Harry Corbett fronting it. The Christmas Day appeals continue on TV and Radio up until 1979. During that time a total of £625,836 was raised. Terry Wogan first appeared during the five minute appeal in 1978 and again in '79.

In 2005 Children In Need Raised £17,235,256 by the closing minute

2006 - £18,300,392

2007 - £19,089,771

2008 - £20,991,216

2009 - £20,309,747

Over the last few years Children In Need has raised more money each year on the night, which is always a positive view and make people want to raise even more than last year. Unfortunately last year they failed to make even more than 2008, so hopefully this year Children In Need will raise even more than what they had in 2008.

this is the image from 1985 - 2007

from 2007 this has been the new Pudsey and the new logo for children in need.

They designed a new logo and Pudsey bear in 2007 to keep up to date with the times, the old logo and Pudsey bear was starting to look slightly older and so in creating a new one which is more rounder draws people in to the new fresh Children In Need.

Each year there is also a Children In Need song that hopes to raise money for the charity by getting to number one in the charts and hoping that a wide range of audience will by the CD and listen along. Most of the songs that have been created or put as the Children In Need song has reached number one in the charts and raised much money for the charity.

Comparisons and Differences between each radio show

While listening to Asda radio show and Radio 1 with Dec, I think that they have similar points to each other. Asda radio show presenter hardly talks instead picking to play more music and advertise products that are being sold in the store. When the presenter does talk its very brief and mainly about the songs that have just been played or staying tune in to listen to more Asda radio. This was the same for when I listened to Dev on Radio 1, his broadcast was played from 1-4 so I could understand that in the morning Radio 1 had less music and more of the presenter talking, but while Dev was broadcasting, he played more music and only spoke about the songs and what was going to come up in the show. There was a lot of sound beds in Dev's broadcast and advertisements about other radio 1 shows that were coming up.

The difference between these two shows was that Dev engaged the audience that was listening and read out there texts and took phone calls from the listeners. Where as Asda only engaged their audience with advertisements with products being sold in the store.

As my third choice I decided to listen to Classic FM, while all radio stations have a lot of similarities there is also a lot of differences. Where as Asda and Radio 1 just played the song that I was about to listen to they didn't give a background on the artist that was about to be played. Classic FM gave about 2 minutes explaining about the musician and there background and how they came about different songs. One other difference is clearly the song choices due to them being classical they last a lot longer than the average 3 to 4 minute songs on Asda or Radio 1. While listening to Classic FM I would of expected them to cut down the song like the do an different radio stations.

Researching the 3 different Radio Stations.

Asda FM Live

So far by listening to Asda I have heard 2 songs very different genre's to each other, I wasn't too sure on what the first song said as I missed the presenter saying what it was, the next song was the Pussycat Dolls, before this song the presenter spoke about Celebrity news for less than 3 minutes about Piers Morgan being the judge on Britain's Got Talent.

After this song there was a feature advertising Asda FM saying 'Asda FM with new music' and different selection of tracks playing to prove this point each lasting a couple of minutes. The song that was played next was in the same genre of the last song.

A couple of features played next to each other advertising Asda FM

Then followed by an advertisement for a childrens DVD that can be sold in the store .. and the next advert was selling low energy products sold in the store.

The next advert was a charity ' tickled pink ' that is being sponsored by Asda

Followed by a song that is more pop genre

There is very little audio from the host who when is aired only speaks for a couple minutes.

Asda FM is aimed at all ages for who ever goes into the store and who likes to listen to the radio while shopping in the store, the music is either pop or RnB and doesn't much change from that genre the adverts listed is very mixed from a child's DVD, to low energy selling products there was also an advert advertising different football products and a charity that is being fronted by Asda.

Radio 1 listening to Dev at half 2 ( starts at 1 until 4 )

As soon as I start listening at 1pm there is straight away the news and discussing buying albums and different websites that sell off albums at a cheaper price, straight after this it gets serious with 'News Beat' this is used with sound beds and a different voice.

After News Beat it cuts straight into Dev who thanks the news and starts talking about whats coming upon the show, he talks about people that have texted in and jokes about who was the first person to text in, with less than a minute talking a song kicks in 'The Script - For The First Time. This song is in the soft rock genre, the next song however is completly different with a more RnB / Dance sound to it. ( Tim Berg - Seek Romance ) This is good so the broadcast reaches a wider range of audience by playing different genre songs. After these songs the presenter starts talking but again with different texts from the audience listening about the songs or what they are doing today, he introduces the next song what will be coming up then talks on the phone to a listener, who is 12 years old, this shows that the show gets a younger audience and also older. While Dev is talking there is a sound bed underneath him when he starts talking to a caller on the phone the sound gets quiter but you can still slightly hear it. After the phone call ends Dev introuduces the next song and it kicks in ( The Killers - Somebody Told Me )

The news is always prompt and exactly on time, there was a first news bulletin before Dev started broadcasting, so we was already updated on what was going on in the world with News Beat.

Classic FM listening at 19.55 presenter - John Brunning ( Jane Jones actually presenting)

As soon as I start listening to the radio station there is an advert for de-icer for winter, this is clearly aimed at the older viewers who has cars and look after them. After that a classical sound bed comes and then stops as a female presenter says what the last song was and says that the news will be coming up shortly. After that there is another couple of adverts, one that links into Classic FM is to win tickets for the Royal Albert Hall. They have a sound bed for there radio show and at 8.02 the news is followed talking straight about politics which is also aimed at the older viewer. The news also follows on with the University prices going up and about a man which had died from a drugs overdose, and about a new Bear that will come to England, the news with mixed but mainly based on political views, there is another sound bed introducing the weather.

(As I have streamed this I seem to be 3 minutes behind)

After the news and weather Jane the presenter talks about a topic that had been previously been talked about, she introduces the next song but gives a short bio on the background of the singer who will next be player then the song is played.

Symphony 100 - Franz Joseph Haydn - this song has played for almost 10 to 15 minutes. After listening to the song for this song I would of expected them to cut down the song as after a while I did get bored of the song and wanted to turn off the radio station. There is always a couple of minutes pause between each little part of the song and then it carrys on. After listening for a thurther 5 minutes I think that a person who doesn't normally listen to Classic FM would of switched over by now or thought that the song had lasted too long and wanted the presenter to come back on and talk.

After the song had finally finished the presenter came back on and started talking about the song just played and how long it had been because it had been from a concert that had recently took place, the songs played after this wasn't as long which was better because I could concentrate more on the type of the radio show, the presenter spoke for a period of times about different songs coming up ones been played and the audience views on each different track.