Local Radio Research
Capital FM 95.8
London
The Bassman
Pauses Slang and Catchphrases
- Before the play Bruno Mars they are "having a Bruno day."
- "Blue skies and sunshine"
- Gossip; "Apperently the throne room in buckingham palace has been turned into a night club!"
About the record
- "This next one is a cracker"
- "Coming up is a new song from Bruno Mars which i know you will love"
About the listener
- "Thanks for doing this interview!"
Celebrity inputs
- "Hey whats up this is Pink and you are listening to Capital FM."
- "Yo whats up this is Mann and this is my new single called Buzzing."
Digression to another subject
- "If you happen to be in London right now the Royal wedding is kicking off..."
- "Soak up the atmosphere at buckingham palace"
- "My next guess is the queen of the high school musical"
Promoting other shows
- "Listen to Capital breakfast from 6am until 10am"
- "Show biz interviews with Rich Clarke"
Critisms
- Show biz interviews don't really last long enough
- People who are interviewed tend to be intervied in bits of the shoW
- Becuase of popular demand there isn't alot of room for radio banter
Positive comments
- Interview material is gripping while it lasts
- Songs flow through with ease
Yorkshire Coast Radio 102.4
Wes at Breakfast
Pauses, Slang and Catchphrases
- "Fair crack of the whip"
- "Ain't got mushy pees at the chip shop"
- A lot of northern Catchphrases used
About the record
- "The single is called girls up"
- "Sort of electro pop"
- "A woman anthem"
About the listener
- Asking listeners what is the biggest thing they have forgoten
- "So what have you been up to girls?"
- Happily takes alot of time for interviews during the breakfast show
- "Morning Gary, where abouts are you?"
Celebirity inputs
- Bella Amie interview
- X factor
Digression to another subject
- "Speaking of which Olly Murs is single ladies"
- "So I have with me a consumer Queen, If you don't mind me calling you that!"
- "So anyway exciting times for Belle Aime"
Promoting other shows
- "Now playing more songs at the weekend"
- Frequently references other DJs and their shows
Critisms
- If there is an oppertunity for the general public to interact with the radio station (through things like games or a story telling sessions) they only allow one person on each show to have a go at them
Positive comments
- A lot of connecting with the audience
- Banter between listeners and DJ
Rough Timeline:
Jingle 0.05
Advertisements
Vets 0.30
Auto engineering 0.25
Bridlington late night pharmacy 0.25
Jingle 0.05
News
Lybiah 1.00
Head teachers 0.25
PS3 hacking 0.15
Football 0.35
Rugby 0.05
Nasa 0.10
How I contributed to my planning process:
The final piece of coursework took many hours to prepare. I had to put alot of extra research for into it and a gave a great contribution to the final peice becuase of this research.
I extended my research by listening to two local radio stations. The first one was a radio station called Capital FM. I chose the london location to study. The other radio station was Yorkshire Coast Radio. I chose the Bridlington location to study. These two radio stations would allow me to seek the conventions of local radio that i found on their shows and hopefully allow me to be able to write aabout them and present them in a suitable way. By being able to notice these conventions, we were able to use some of them in our final piece. We also used some aspects of local radio in a preliminary task.
The peliminary had to be completed before the final piece. We needed this to give a general idea of what would be featured in the final piece. Also it allows us to demonstrate the the conventions we sutdied and demonstrate our technical abilities on the radio. My part in this was to write a rough script for the main speakers to follow when recording. I also contirbuted in key ideas for the editing of the tasks for example where to put jingles and sound effects.
My other job was to write the weather part for the third speaker in our radio station. This means I had to listen to some weather broadcasts and many different radio stations. I prepared a short script for the third speaker and I had ideas of a quick and speady radio report with prehaps some added sound effects of rain to give a sense that the weather reader was really broadcasting the weather outside. Some of these ideas made it into the final but not into the preliminary. My other main task was to prepare a short interview clip. I was being interviewed and had to write a short reply to the question asked to me. Feauturing this short clip would be our example of advertising what was to come later on in the show (like we had found in our local radio station research). This was used in the preliminary task.
Overall I contributed alot to this research. By giving the speakers a structure to follow we were able to complete the final task alot faster and with more detail to make it sound professional.
