Regulation & Codes of Practice

A) What are the names of the two companies that licence radio stations to play music?

MLA & RPS

PPL & PRS

PPS & PSS

For a bonus point, what do the above acronyms stand for:

B) Phonographic Performance Limited

C) Performing Rights Society

D) What else do the above companies collect and distribute for music artists/songwriters/publishers?

- Fees for playing gramophone recordings

E) What would happen if a shop / club / radio station didn’t purchase licences from these bodies and were found out by the PRS/PPL?  Get fined

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F) What is the name of the regulator of the Broadcast and Telecommunications Industries?

OFCOM

G The document that sets out the principles, meanings and "practices to be followed” by the Broadcast industries is called the:

The Broadcasting Code

H) Name three of the areas (sections) of the “Code” and two examples of what that section states you cannot do on Radio.

1) Promote Crime

Descriptions or demonstrations of criminal techniques which contain essential details which could enable the commission of crime must not be broadcast unless editorially justified.

2) Cause of Harm & Offence

Programmes must not include material (whether in individual programmes or in programmes taken together) which, taking into account the context, condones or glamorises violent, dangerous or seriously antisocial behaviour