1. Conventions of Radio
Conventions of Radio are:
• Regular time checks because the audience can know when the radio is on and what shows
come on in a specific time.
• Interviews with people concerned with the stories because it shows that they know more
information to the story which is link with them and give facts and opinion about their
thoughts.
• Formal language, serious voices because the audience can listen what you are saying and
how you speaking to the public or not.
• Name presenters because it tells you the name and also it gives you what the presenter will
be talking about.
• Headlines because it tells you text indicating the nature of the article below it.
• Newsreader – expanded on the stories because it gives you more information about the
radio news and other things related like sports and weather.
• Correspondents/reporters for all the additional info because they tell you what’s going on
and what the surrounding are like around them.
• Weather reports because it tells what the weather is like and tells if something dangerous is
going to happen.
• Sports news because it tells you the format and t discussion and broadcasting of sporting
events. Also they analyze and debate about the game.
• Archival sound because it tells a collection of audio recordings and about real facts what
people gives and records it.
• Sound to introduce/identify the news because it gives the audience that something is going
wrong and it gives audience a shock and something is really important.
• Form: Radio news bulletin
• Structure: Headlines, news reports, sport, weather
• Content: Current affairs
• Technical conventions: Codes and conventions
• Mode of address: Formal, serious, informative (Commercial radio news or Radio One news a
bit less formal) Tries to be objective