The script summarizes the top news stories of the day from a local radio station on the Isle of Wight. It includes stories on a coffee shop fundraising for the homeless, a new trampoline center opening, the latest Star Wars film, and lineup for the Isle of Wight music festival. It also covers sports news about a young shooter gaining sponsors and football results. The script checks back to "the thirteen rules of radio" to ensure a natural sound when read aloud.

1. From a previous blog post we learnt the importance of using to the
thirteen rules of radio, when writing the script for our own radio show,
we made sure to check back to these rules throughout our writing
process. Below is a copy of the script with the rule number shown in
black.
{Chris}
{Pete}
{Vince}
{Charlotte}
Hello and welcome to this evenings news _ it’s 5 o’clock _ I'm Chris Case
bringing you today's top stories _ a local coffee shop backing a
campaign to help the homeless _ the new trampolining activity center
Isle Jump _ the latest Star Wars film _ and the lineup for the Isle of
Wight Festival.
Over the past couple of weeks Costa Coffee _ situated in the town center
in Newport _ has been helping local man Trevor Blanely by raising
money for his Pop Up Soup Kitchen which aims to help the homeless on
the Island (3 - Showing simplicity by saying ‘Island’ as this is the
commonly known term by Islanders) by providing them with food,
warmth and shelter.
Isle Jump had its opening today, James, an employee at Isle Jump, says
it’s (1 - By saying ‘it’s’ instead of ‘it is’ the news bulletin sounds more
natural as well as appealing to our target audience further ) a great
place to work and is a perfect place for young people to hangout.
In other news Star War The Force Awakens came out in cinemas today
(10 - Here we have wrote ‘today which breaks rule number 10,
however we feel this is justified because it is something that many of
the audience would not know instead of being assumed) on the Island _
we went out to ask some of these fans whether they felt the new
episode lived up to all the hype.
The organisers of the Isle of Wight festival have announced several new
acts that will perform at the annual music event starting June ninth (5 -
To allow the reader to read the article word by word, it is easier to put
numbers into words) and finishing on the twelve (5). The new artists
that have been announced include English Pop Band Busted, British
Singer Jess Glynne (PRON Jess Glin) (8 - When saying names it is
important to pronounce them correctly otherwise it could cause offence
and be unprofessional, here we have written a pronunciation for
‘Glynne’ as ‘Glin’ as we were concerned it could be read as ‘Gline’) and
Irish Folk Band The Corrs. They will join headliners Queen with Adam
Lambert, Stereophonics and Faithless.
16 year old Harriet Little became disabled through an illness at the age
of 9. She has been given the opportunity to become a member of the
British talent identification development squad to practice her sport of
choice, archery in order to prepare for the 2016 Paralympic games in
Rio that take place from the 7th to the 18th of September.
The Thirteen Rules of radio:
1. Write as if you are
talking to a friend
-Use contractions such
as don’t instead of do
not, or can’t instead of
can not etc…
2. Use the 6 W’s
-(Who, What, When,
Where, Why and hoW)
3. KISS – Keep it Simple,
Stupid!
-Use simple sentences,
and have one sentence
for one idea.
-AVOID COMMAS!!!
4. Two or three
sentences for a cue and
four sentences for a copy
story.
5. Write numbers as
words
- (E.g. 2010 becomes
‘two thousand and ten’
or ‘twenty ten’)
6. Joe Blogs, 17, from
Newport. <- Doesn’t
make sense when read
on a radio news report.
- Should be ‘Joe Blogs _
seventeen and from
Newport’
7. When writing for a
cue, make sure you don’t
repeat when is said in
the clip!
Paraphrase the first line
of the audio or sum up
what is going to be said.
8. Write names of people
and places that could be
hard to pronounce,
phonetically.
E.g. Sarah Leahy [ PRON:
sare-har lee-ee]

2. And now here's (1 - By saying ‘here’s’ instead of ‘here is’ sounds more
natural as well as appealing to our target audience further ) Pete (3- Shows
simplicity and appeal to the target audience by saying ‘Pete’ instead of
‘Peter Barfoot’) with the latest sports news.
And in sports news, eleven (5 - To allow the reader to read the article word
by word, it is easier to put numbers into words) year old Charlotte Morris
has been reached by two sponsors after her shooting skills have been
shown off in competitions. She'll be further competing in her biggest
competition in May.
7 all, that was the score between the Under eighteen (5 - To allow the
reader to read the article word by word, it is easier to put numbers into
words) junior raiders and Bracknell last weekend. The game was the
raiders first tie of the year and was full of excitement… (Cue) (7)
And in football, Portsmouth beat Crawley Town three-nil (5 - To allow the
reader to read the article word by word, it is easier to put numbers into
words) on Saturday keeping them at fourth place in League two (5), while
up in the Premiership League, Bournemouth vs Leicester ended with nil-nil
(5) and Southampton lost to Norwich City with a one-nil (5) defeat. that’s (1
- By saying ‘that’s’ instead of ‘that is’ sounds more natural as well as
appealing to our target audience further) all in the sports news, I’m (1)
Peter Barfoot. (4 - This paragraph giving us sports news is just a copy story
rounding up the news, it is around four sentences giving it the feel of a
conventional copy story)
Tomorrow should be dry and bright and will stay like that for most of the
day however we might see a few light showers in the evening, with highs of
twelve degrees and lows of nine, tomorrow is looking to be a lovely day. I’m
Charlotte and this was your weather update. (Although this is not one of the
13 rules, previously set. We have used direct address to make our audience
feel as if they are being served and for us to emphasise we are doing it for
the general audience instead of ourselves)
For more of the latest news and weather visit us on our facebook and
twitter pages_ @RhythmExtra
9. Round up statistics and
put them in context.
E.g. 260,000 hectares = the
size of 3 football pitches.
This makes it easier for the
audience to understand the
scale and visualise the size.
10. Don’t use ‘today’ in the
top line of your story!
The audience should
assume events are taking
place today, otherwise why
are you telling them about
it.
However you can use ‘this
morning’ or ‘this afternoon’
in order to be more specific.
11. Do not use quotations
from people in the
newsreaders script.
One exception to this might
be using one or two words
in the top line of the cue-
but it cannot go against rule
7.
12. AVOID
ABBREVIATIONS!!!!
Only use abbreviations is
they are well known (e.g.
the UN or NATO)
13. READ IT ALOUD!!!!
Sometimes sentences can
make sense when you write
them however don’t when
they are read aloud.