Saturday, 30 November 2013

Analysing News Bulletins

In my 3 news bulletins, I was looking at how similar the 3 of them are too each other in terms of running order, presentation, and audience. I found that it is likely for a story to be used in more than one news bulletins, due to the importance of the story. This therefore shows that, if the story is a very big story, then it doesn't matter what type of show it is, it will be on the news.

On the news on BBC Radio 2, the stories included were aimed at older, perhaps more intelligent individuals, as the stories included were to do with the economy and unemployment, as well as a disaster and a tragedy story. This perhaps shows that the audience of the show is of a more intelligent and sophisticated type. On talkSport, the audience of the show was to people who enjoy sport. This is because the opening story was a Football story, and the other stories in the bulletin were a tragedy, conflict, and politics story. However, being a Sports show, there was a 'Sports Update' after the news, which included seven football stories, and one story about Rugby Union. This shows that, although being a Sports show, talkSport sees the importance of including some varied news stories as its audience can be varied, as sports is enjoyed by many people of different ages, cultures etc.

I found that the presentation styles used in the 3 news bulletins are very similar, but there are differences. BBC Radio 2's news bulletin is presented in a very serious way, the news presenter speaks very quickly, and very clearly. The news presenter on talkSport spoke very in a very similar way to the presenter on BBC Radio 2, but he spoke slower, and that reflected the general mood of talkSport as a show. Magic was similar to talkSport but the presenter spoke very quickly. In general, the news is seen as a very serious component of a show, and is obviously also very important.

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