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) Performing Right Society

C) Phonographic Performance Limited

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

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 get fined.

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) Harm and Offence.
Violence, Suicide,
2)Crime

Likely to encourage crime.
3)Religion

No promoting,