LO1.3: Structure of a Program

STARTER:

What kind of structuring would you consider having in your program?

• Advertising
• Music
• Competitions
• Jingles

LESSON START:

• 5 aspects:
• Purpose
• Income - how station is funded, e.g public or commercial 
• Scheduling
• Content
• Staff and resources
• Meaning
• Purpose:
• Entertainment 
• music, interviews, plays, e.g Radio 1, Capital 
• Educational 
• educate the listener, to learn something - radio documentary, LBC
• Inform 
• the presenter is there to inform the listener information - weather, traffic, local radios such as Hallam 
• Promote 
• is the reason of the show to promote a service or a product 
• Income:
• Commercial 
• advertising or sponsorship 
• Public Radio 
• government, license fee, BBC radio stations 
• Scheduling:
• dependant of when your radio production is broadcast, can have an affect on how the show should be structured
• Breakfast
• Capital - Roman Kemp, high energy, a lot of conversation and chat 
• Daytime
• most of music playing - more of a background noise
• Drive Time
• way home from work - similar to breakfast show, not as high energy, peak radio listening show
• Evening 
• music, wind down time, something educational depending, specialist music, BBC 1 7pm Dance Music 
• Overnight
• chill, quiet, not a lot of listeners, night shift workers, 
• Content:
• Music
• charts 
• indie
• throwbacks
• News
• radio 1 - 2 mins
• radio 4 - half an hour 
• Weather
• Dialogue
• talkSPORT 
• recent events
• presenters
• Phoneins or Social Media Interactions 
• give their opinions
• bring their own stories in 
• Dramatisations
• radio 4, murder mystery, like an audio book 
• Meaning
• how to develop the atmosphere
• script or unscripted
• arguments 
• jingle to move into different segments - news, weather, advertisements
• Staff and Resources
• presenter
• producers
• other team members
• newsreader
• sports 
• when they will be available for production
• music - live or recorded
• equipment 
• instruments
• microphone
• headsets