Local Radio Stations Introduction

I am now going to compare two local radio stations, i am going to listen to them broadcasting at the same time on the same day. I will do this to see if they share similar news stories to each other.
The radio shows i will be listening to are:

Both these are local radio stations, magic is local to London and Capital as well as being a national news station, you can also get it in local areas too like Birmingham. 

I listened to them again by using the listen again feature on the website.

Other Conventions Of Radio New Bulletins

This post will show all the important conventions of a radio news bulletin-

AN INTRODUCTION-
This is where the main newsreader introduces himself to the audience. It usually includes a greeting and a time check.

JINGLE-
This is a short piece of music, it is very catchy and the audience should be able to identify it very easily.

VOX POP-
Members of the public commenting on the story. It could involve anywhere between 1-5 people, they all have different points of views

EXPERT GUESTS-
This could involve a celebrity or someone who is a professional in their field of work, it generally tends to relate to a story

OUTSIDE BROADCAST-
This tends to be a van that has all the radio equipment, by having this they are able to record stories at an event as it is about to happen.

SOUND BITE-
This is dialogue, from an outside person, it can be a celebrity or someone that has witnessed an accident or someone involved in the story. It can sometimes be a press conference.

CORRESPONDANT-
This is a person who works for the radio station, they will be recording live from an event that is the scene of a story.

ARCHIVE CLIP-
This could be a clip from someone who has passed away, it has been previously recorded and in the past.

Comparing News Bulletins- Absolute and Kiss

In my last post I listened to Absolute radio and Kiss FM radio. In this blog I will be comparing both radio to see if they share and similarities in terms of running order and news stories. The radio stations I listened to only had one story in common, this being the death of David Bowie.
Absolute radio plays the rock genre of music, they target an audience between the ages of 24-44 year olds. The type of stories that have been reported, in my opinion are targeting towards the older section of the targeted audience. The first story that is reported is about metropolitan police department, this is more understood and appreciated by the older listeners. The story about the river thames home owners, could only be related by a person who has a home, they can understand the effect of a house flooding has on the family who live there.

Kiss FM chose to use a story on the dangers of dating apps as their first story, this relates to their younger target audience as the younger generation is more likely to use dating app, by reporting this story they are warning the younger listeners about dating apps and how life threatening they can be. The last story is about mental illness is teenagers and how the government is doing more to help this cause. Most teenagers have a mental illness or know someone who does.

The only news story that both radio stations have in common is about the death of music legend David Bowie. I think that this is because they gave so much to the world in terms of music and entertainment that music radio stations have to leave everyone with a good memory of him. In Kiss FM one song was played for him, where as in Absolute they donated their whole day to playing songs by David Bowie, this is because their genre of music is rock and David Bowie is a rock legend.

Kiss FM- Radio Show at 6am

The first radio show i have chosen to listen too is Kiss FM morning show at 6am. I found out that the news is played every 30 mins, they target an audience of 15-24 year olds. When it comes to comparing it will be interesting to see if this radio station compared to others that target an older audience have the same running order.

This is the news running order-

STORY 1- this story is about crimes from being on dating apps

• The number of people reporting crimes from dating apps e.g. tinder and grindr has increased by 7 times in the past two years
• These crimes are based on rape and attempted murder 
• a figure from the police force has shown that an increase in 412 crimes from hook up apps

News values:

Immediacy- This was the first story in the running order, meaning that it may have been brought forward as it is breaking news 

Impact- This may have a large impact on many of our lives, this is because the majority of people are part of dating apps or know someone who is on one 

Continuity- this will be part of an ongoing investigation as this is still effecting many people who have been involved 

Conflict- it could possibly contain conflict between the police and the dating organisations 

STORY 2- The death of music legend David Bowie 

• Music legend David Bowie passed away 
• He sadly died from an 18 month battle with caner 
• There has been many tributes from other famous artists who was inspired by him
• He was 69 when he passed 

News Values:

Surprise- This did come as a surprise to us because we did not expect this to happen 

Elite People- The story is about David Bowie, who was very famous 

Personalisation- Many people were very upset to find out about David because he inspired so many people from around the world 

Immediacy- The story happened the day before it was reported so it is relatively breaking 

STORY 3- police are looking for a group of boys 

• This group of boys that the police are looking for, were involved in the stabbing of a 15 year old boy who was stabbed 
• it happened at a birthday party out side a social club in wood ford, east London 

News Values:

Familiarity- it is close to us as it has taken place just outside London

Impact- we may feel threatened as the group of boys that committed the crime have not yet been caught

Continuity- it is part of an ongoing investigation as the boys are still on the lose 

Personalisation- this boy that was stabbed was innocent and was only at a birthday party, people with children and friends to the boy can relate to the story 

STORY 4- Priminister promising billion pounds worth of extra funding

• The priminister is promising 1 billion pounds worth of extra funding to treat people with post natal depression and anorexia amongst teens 
• David Cameron wants to boost mental health services to tackle poverty and improve peoples life chances
• he is also acquiring more counselling to those who need it 

News Values:

Familiarity- it is taking place with in London, there fore it is geographically close to us 

Surprise- this is news is a surprise to many people as there has not been this amount of money donated, it is unexpected 

Elite people - David Cameron is our priminister therefore since he is involved the story does contain a celebrity 

Personalisation- this is going to help benefit many people lives, there ares lots of people who may not have been able to afford counselling or support who can now receive help

Continuity- this story will be ongoing as we will receive frequent changes and updates from it 

Absolute Radio- Morning News At 6am

This is the running order from Absolute radio morning news-

STORY 1- Metro police apologising

• The metropolitan police have apologised to chief Andrew Mitchell who was forced to resign after the pleb-gate affair 
• Keith Wallace admitted to lying, the 54 year old will be sentenced to prison for the next month 
• there a was an archive clip of Keith Wallace speaking tot the interviewer 

News Values:

Continuity- this is an ongoing investigation and has been going on for a long time 

Conflict- the conflict is between the police and the chief 

Scandal- seeing as there was lying involved from three different police and one person was prosecuted due to the lying then it is definatley scandal 

Elite people- Andrew Mitchell is the chief of police making him the elite person because he specialises in what he does 

STORY 2- Careers being jailed 

• Three careers have been jailed for 17 months for mistreating elderly dementia patients 
• this happened at a nursing home in Lancaster 

News Values:

Familiarity- It is in Britain which means that it is relatively close to us in terms of location 

Impact- this could make us feel threatened or worried as we may know people with dementia, and the trust we have for care units has now completely gone 

Continuity- there was an investigation, this means that is was going on for a while 

Personalisation- this provokes emotion from the audience as dementia patients need caring for as they can no longer care for themselves

STORY 3- British man has died

• After trying to save his children from drowning at a local beauty spot in a beach in the south of Sydney 
• the British father drowned, after diving in to save his children 

News Values:

Immediacy- the story happened recently in terms of when it was reported

Personalisation- we get an emotional response to this type of story

Negativity- because the father died it is a negative story 

STORY 4- river thames home owners 

• Home owners have participated in mopping up operations 
• this happened after the river thames burst it banks
• residents were told to expect flooding 

News Values:

Familiarity- it is close to us as it is in London

Amplitude- a flood would effect many people living around the banks of the river thames

Impact- this makes people feel threatened as there is a possibility of losing their homes 

Surprise- this was a surprise as no body thought that the banks would burst creating a  flood

STORY 5- David Bowie's tragic death

• The tragic death of the 69 year old music legend David Bowie 
• He was battling cancer for 18 months 
• many tributes have been paid to him 

News Values:

Immediacy- it is breaking in terms of when the story was reported 

Surprise- we did not expect this to happen, there fore it is a surprise 

Elite people- David Bowie was a music legend, he is a celebrity

Personalisation- his death was very sad and people will be distraught 

Analysing News Bulletins On Radio Stations

In this part of my blog i will be focusing on how news is represented on radio stations, this will help me when it is time for me to make my radio station. It will allow me to see how real radio stations have incorporated news into their running order. Whilst listening i will also be able to see how the radio is structured with adverts, weather and other key things i must include in order for my radio show to sound authentic.
I am going to be listening to 2 radio stations that have broadcasted at the same time on the same day, by doing this i will be able to see the running order of the two radio stations and to see if they share any of the same stories and then i will be able compare their news structure. I will be comparing these radio stations because they are from completely different genre of radio and they target a completely different audience.
I am going to be using the tune in radio app, this allows me to play back and listen again to the radio show, on some websites they also have an option to listen again, but i prefer using the tune in radio app because it is much easier to find and listen to the radio show.

These are the two news stations that i will be covering for my blog.

KISS- It is a UK radio station which broadcasts on FM and a national DAB, it specialises in hip hop, R&B, urban and electronic dance music. Kiss targets a younger audience (15-24), it is an upbeat and cool radio station to listen too.

ABSOLUTE RADIO- This is another UK based radio show, it plays popular rock music, it is played across the UK. They target 24-44 year olds, they have a much larger target audience compared to kiss.