Related to audience: This is when the news that the radio station reports on is relevant to the audience that listens to it. For example, Radio 1 may report on news about colleges and universities as their target audience are between the ages of 16 and 29. An example of a story like this is: "New A-Levels announced by Michael Gove. Due to the target audience, the presenter would use a certain type of language, depending on the station. For instance, if Capital were to broadcast the news, slang words and phrases may be used. This is to make it easier listening for certain age ranges.
Public Service: This type of report is public interest. It is something that the public need to know. An example of a story like this would be "War Breakout". This is a good example as it would effect more than just a few people. People all over the world could potentiallty be effected both physically and mentally and need to be prepared for it. The appropriate language would be used to dicuss this topic as it is very serious. This type of news would be played on all stations as it needs to reacch as many people as possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_umT1kWLNNU - This story about Madeline McCan fits in with this as it is a very famous story about a missing little girl. The broadcast would raise public awareness and offer support for the family and police.
Commercial: This is when radio programming is owned privately by corporate media as opposed to sponsorship. It is usually based on the practise or airing radio advertisements for profits. A commercial news story is usually about a business or company, for example Apple or Asda. Many people benefit from hearing about businesses in the news, such as former employees and other businesses which need to know what the competiotn is doing. Commercial news is also used for profit, for example, advertisements, i.e, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJZbKZYKyE
In this interview Harry Styles announces One Directions new single, One Way Or Another. This is promotional material as they know that a famous name being on the show will get them more listeners. This is also promotional for the band themselves as they get to promote their new songs etc. It will keep the fans happy too because they get to keep up to date with their favoutite artists.
Community: Community radio is often confused with Local radio because it sort of relates to the same kind of audience, just on a smaller scale. Local reffers more to Manchester, whereas Community is more towards Salford. An example of this would be "Powercut effecting the whole of Eccles yesterday at 9pm"
Small-Scale: Small Scale news would be used on a radio station like E6 radio for instance. The news reported would be what the students would like to hear, but usually not what other members of the public would. This could be things such as "Eccles College Football Team won 4-2 against Pendleton College last night".
Local: This type of news is what is relevant to an audience in that local area. It may include things such as traffic updates and local elections. A story like this is: "Car Crash on the M60". This is reported on the news because it gives people in that area an idea of what the traffic is going to be like. This would be reported on stations like Salford City Radio and BBC Manchester.
Regional: Regional news is broadcasted to different radio stations in England such as the North West or South. An example of this would be "Teachers go on strike in North West" - people living in London would have no interest in this therefore it is only broadcasted so certain areas. An example of this is a teacher strike in the north west,
National: National News is when the news effects a wide range of people from all over the nation, therefore it will be broadcasted on most radio stations, for instance both BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4 will feature this news. An example of a news story like this could be "Cold & Flu spreads throughout nation" as this will effect everybody. There will be language used that people from all
over understand, no slang terms or professional jargon. An example of this is, http://player.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/radioplayer/podcasts/Absolute-Radio-News/2013-10-01/20131001190108/ this will apply to people all over Britain. It tells the story of how Gordon Ramsey says immigrant workers work harder than the British themselves. This will apply to british workers all over the UK. We also find out Boris Johnson's opinion on the subject (he agrees), which therefore makes it much more serious, coming from the mouth of a professional.
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