Friday, 23 September 2016

Conventions in sky radio newscast

20/09/2016


Conventions in sky radio newscast

 

The radio newscast starts off with a female anchor’s voice. No theme music is used; it just starts off with her name, the location and then straight to the headlines. She is the main anchor. The headlines starts off with the lead story, this is where the most important story is carried out first. In this newscast the lead story would be that the UN stops all convoys’ with Syria 70,000 people bombed by war planes. The main anchor says that People all over the country are affected. They cross over to another person in the newscast. A soundbite from an expert, Sonia Kush is inserted. This was outside of the broadcast. She was selected as the expert because she if from the area and knows how is it affecting the whole of the country.

The main anchor is talking very formally. This shows that the newscast is broadcasted for adults and not people like children or teenagers. Also she is talking very seriously and no music / background theme music was inserted in.  Throughout the whole newscast, it was only3 women’s voices. 1 anchor, 1 expert and 1 short interview with a Paralympian. The stories were not in depth and not in detail so this was only headline news.

This newscast has a range of genres, politics, health and sports, businesses. One of the headlines was of 8 men arrested in a Bastille attack. This is news for local people as they were probably near the attack and would want to feel safe. Another headline was of the NHS and smoking.  Evidence read by the anchor shows that in “1974 half of men smoked” less than 50%, and now there’s even more less men suing it at a lower level. They are now using E-cigarettes as they say it helps overcome their addiction for cigarettes. Penultimately the Queen congratulates the Paralympians after their final games back from Rio. Kadeena Cox is the first British woman Paralympian who won 4 medals in 32 years. The news broadcast was interactive. They held a short interview with the Paralympian. She has recently found out that she had multiple scoliosis for “2 years”. Lastly, and Tesco, Sainsbury’s, ASDAs and Morrison’s found that they had a year on year rise.

The newscast started off with hard news but towards the end, there were softer news stories.

 


 

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