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:
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D) What else do the above companies collect and distribute for music artists/songwriters/publishers?
song royaltys
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?
they would be fiend (dun dun DUUUUN !)
F) What is the name of the regulator of the Broadcast and Telecommunications Industries?
O F C O M
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) religion: : do try to covert people on air and don't be rasesit
2)crime: don't tell people how to commit them
3)harm and offence : make sure to tell them all the rules for compasions
