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1. Related to audience; news related to the audience is news that is engaging to everyone in this
category you will mainly getpolitical news such as upcoming elections and also broadcasts on wars
and thingsof everyone’s interestthesewillbe playedonnearlyeveryradiostationespeciallythe bbc
howeverthe tone inwhichthe newsispresentedacrossthe bbcis different with news on BBC radio
1 being much more informal and using language that appeals to a younger demographic whereas
BBC radio 4 is much more formal and addresses the audience, for example we listened Gaydio
yesterday and all the news articles they talked about were related to the LGBT community so they
specifically cater for their audience with news they think will matter to them, the presenter had a
stereotypical gay voice but he was rather well spoken.
Public service public service news is news that is engaging to everyone in this category you will
mainly get political news such as upcoming elections and also broadcasts on wars and things of
everyone’sinterestthesewillbe playedonnearlyeveryradiostationespeciallythe bbchoweverthe
tone inwhichthe newsispresentedacrossthe bbc isdifferentwithnewsonBBCradio1 beingmuch
more informal and using language that appeals to a younger demographic whereas BBC radio 4 is
much more formal and addresses the audience
Commercial;commercial news iswhere acompanywill announce newsonthe radiosuchas theyare
releasing a new type of product are that have just gone on the stock flotation market or if Costa
coffee opened up new stores in town or something
Community; community radio stations such as Salford city radio will cover mainly local news and
sport theymaycoversome of the largermore importantnationwide news they will cater to a much
smaller audience but the news will be more specific
Small-scale; small scale radio is something like we have at college E6 radio station is small scale
because we onlybroadcastincollege we generallytalkaboutnews that is related to college such as
their sports teams results and also if there is anything going on such as college council elections
Local; communityradiostationssuchasSalfordcityradio will covermainlylocal newsandsportthey
may cover some of the larger more important nationwide news they will cater to a much smaller
audience but the news will be more specific
Regional;bbcradioManchesterisa regional radiostationthere isnational newsandalso local north
westnewstalkedabout,the accentsare probablythe mostimportantpart of regional radiostations,
each stationupand downthe countrywill have itsown regional presenter so that the audience can
connectwiththe presenteronManchesterradiotheywill covernewsforthe all of the north west so
places such as Wigan and Preston
National; national news will be on all major radio stations they will talk about politics and war
reports and also international news such as sports, celebrities and stocks and shares (commercial)
most of the reporters on these news stations will not have broad accents so that they can connect
with a national audience