My Analysis Of Our Adult Contemporary Show

For adult contemporary we were split on what we wanted to do, i thought the idea of a drive home show would work well but three against one isnt going anywhere. I felt that doing a christmas show is too early especially in October but no one listened. I trugenly downloaded the christmas song and helped with the bedding music. We felt that Cara and Chris will work well for presenting as their voices are calm and not in a fast pace. They both have good chemestry together on air and for two presenters on a adult contemporary show it wont be dreary and give the show some warmth. The news however was a total shame if your going to do the news in the future at least make it up!! But no they used the recent news for a future show thats two months forward. Anyway. The beding music was beautiful as in it was trinkwil with mellow tones that complemented the tones of Chris and Cara. I found that the jingles was too much after awhile because the christmas theme tune was so prominant through out that the jingles was just an overkill. I liked however the vox pop of the elderly couple ringing in. As i was the elderly lady and zac was the elderly man, it put homour to the show and emphasised the target listeners of the show. Overall the show worked well but i felt that it ridiculas in Content.

My Analysis Of Our Student Show

For our student show we thought that we will have a show where our listeners could interacte and enjoy the type of music we play which will be the latest. We thought that Zachs voice is perfect for this genre as he is young, speaks clearly and has the voice that people in the target audience will listen to. The jingles that we have for the show is different as in its repetitive, sharp and short. It injects excitment that speeds up the show it sounds stupid but this jingle has a sort of dangerous edge to it. We thought of using a segment that uses the voices of the students in our class to read out some qurky sentances about what happened to them. We called it 'what happened to me today', it will be our weekly thing. This will make our listeners laugh and tune in every week to listen. But there could have been a intro to the peice as it just cuts straight through. The first jingle of cara introducing the show works well because it tells the listeners what their listening to, it sounds professional. The bedding music was ok but there was lyrics but Zac faded it out so that it wasnt distracting. There was good mixing in between song 1 and 2 this made it sound professional. I presented the second advert for rapture music store in witney. I spoke clearly no 'erming' or werid awkward pauses. I found that the music worked well with what im saying. And it was cut well.

Prep for our live music show

Our group had a meeting on the 19th of october to discuss what we want in our music show. I already had an idea of what music i wanted to play so i put forward two tracks and everyone agreed that it would go well.. I then discussed that we needed alot of bedding music, Zac responded that we will use todays top music and just dub out the vocals and just use the sound. We all agreed. I Felt that we needed the news and some adverts but no one agreed. Cara came up with the idea of having a competiton that involves facebook statuses this will tie in with the new film that came out in cinemas about Facebook. I thought that was fantastic. Lesson finished and i went home to go and write my script as i was presenting.

Planet Rock ( Music)

http://www.planetrock.com/ 

For this genre of radio show i analysed a radio station called "Planet Rock", i listened to this on Wedensday 22nd September at 22:29. This radio station has a specific chosen era like classic rock and roll. The target audience is 18+ because of the decades the type of music comes from and the younger audience would listen because any aspiring musican has role models from these decades. The listeners can txt in to the station to request something they want to be played live on air. This station doesnt do the top 40 charts simply because this wouldn't apply to their target audience because the station is based around rock not mainstream music or popular culture. On the website they do have the radio logo which is this ;

As you can see the image of the world emphasis the fact that the station is full of classic rock. They are only avalible on DAB radio and has a music channel. The station has advertisments like every other radio station part from the BBC because its funded by the TV licence, there are also lots of promoting about Festivals and Rock gigs and the presenter eeven encourages the listeners to buy tickets for some of them because in 'his opinion' they will be a blast. The timing inbetween songs is small they own use a 5 second jingle to put inbetween the songs so the presenter doesnt talk much because of this. The presenter plays 5 songs and then he talks for a minutes before the adverts start to roll. The presenters voice isnt mono toned, the pitch of his voice is varied especially when he gets excited about a band or song. The style of his presenting is very relaxed not to hyper just tolarable. For their jingles, they have used a strong deep male voice this shows that the station is aimed at male listeners. With their grey and caramel layout on their site it is clear that it's not trying to impress their listeners with jazzy colours that atrract. Its got a layed back feel with their easy listening music and slow paced presenters. The language isnt difficult to understand, only using simple English. The accent of the presenter is American which sounds good with the type of music being played. I have noticed that they dont speak over the long intro's of some songs which would have needed it and the adverts are just too cheessy for this style. The branding of Planet rock is Classic rock, so the listeners imagine that some of the presenters are in their late 30's and in some cases this is true but because of the language used it doesnt sound like adult contemporary.

Kerrang Radio (Music Show)

http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/

I listenend to Karrang Radio on 3rd November 2010 at 2:51pm. The target audience for this radio station is 16+ because of the type of music and style of presenting. The presenter is female, she uses informal language and her pace of speech is fast but you can pick up the words so you can understand. Even the News Presenter's pace is at the same speed. The presenter uses phrases and slang which young listeners will understand. The use of her illustrative language makes it enetertaining to listening to, she uses alot of catch phrases such as 'Black Friday' and 'Pure Bant' this slang is perfect for the target audience they are trying to hit. Her tone of voice isnt borning, slow or just bland. Her voice insteads just injects pure excitment leaving the listener feeling pumped up and feeling that they've got to listen to more or they'd lose out of whats happening. She hasn't got a accent just purely British, its a bit husky but from my point of view it sounds like years of heavy smoking and drinking. The music that is played on Karrang isnt mainstream pop muisc. Their specifiaclly more to do with bands/ artists that are in these genres; Electronica, Screamo, Rock, Soft Rock, Heavy Metal, Thrash, and indie. This is called a selection criteria and it appeals to a wide range of people because they might not like the UK  top 40 or music from other genres. Karrang radio is a public radio, you can listen on the Internet, DAB and on FM. As well as a radio station they have a booming magazine dedicated to rock music this where avid listeners can go and buy their magazines. The Karrang image is all about angry bands with lots of attitude this works well with the target audience their trying to appeal to. Their internet site is in black, grey with red. And their logo is in red with a barcode behind the font which is different from other logos i've seen. The presenters are conversational but the ratio is 85%.

Heart fm (Adult Contemporary)

You can listen to heart fm on the radio, DAB, internet, mobile and TV. I listened to the late night show with Simon Beale on the 1st November at 12:23 am. The music that they play can vary on different types of shows, they play the UK top 40, easy listening and music from all era's. This will apply to their target audience which is 35+. The branding of heart fm is very obvious with their name heart. On the website its all in red with the font in white to make it stand out more.On their logo, the A is shaped of a love heart on their internet tab it shows a red heart against white branding. This is to force the heart brand down listeners throats and viewers. In Oxford there is regular heart stands with a street crew trying to get more customers to listen in or get interactive with the show, this works well i find because its making the station more involved with their local listeners. With heart fm, they have a station for every region so it can be listenable where ever you in the UK, they get on average a week 7.5 million viewers tuning in.Heart is the biggest commericial radio and is a public service. The personality of heart radio is very upbeat, let the good times role and take a step back to relax. Their motto is 'More Music Variety' which immplies that their station will play anything from Stone Roses to Neyo. The ratio of speech to music is 95% just because of the type of show im listening but there is a thick load of jingles, stings and plenty of adverts to seperate the songs, this is typical of heart fm. The presenters use of language is farely relaxed for adult contemporary which i find works well as they use alot of illustrative language to give the listeners a picture in their minds. The breadth of vocabulary is at a good pace not slow or fast paced. This makes the target audience feel that their not being treated as a child.

Gold (Adult Contemporary)

 http://www.mygoldmusic.co.uk/ 

For this genre of radio show i analysed a radio Station called Gold, I listened to it on their internet website. i listened on Wedensday 22nd September at 21:49. The show that i listened to is "Dean Martin's Gold Requests", the type of music that is being played is old 60's hits this ties in with the target audience of the show which is 30+ because the music is easy listening like back round music. On this particular show there is  audience interaction because of the show is a 60's request show so listeners ring up and ask to put certain music on from that era. Every show plays songs from all different types of decades so it isnt just from one decade give the listener more range of music from the past. This is commerical radio and has a lot of advertiments such as the link that plays the show has a tenor lady pads advert this relates to the older audience and these adverts are played in the breaks of songs. They broadcast the news every hour with the weather and sport making it informative. The presenters tone of voice was very smooth and has a 60:40 ratio, music being the biggest. The branding for Gold is they have their own jingles that the listener can recognise that its gold radio station their listening to when they tune in. On their internet site you can see that the layouts in gold this is to put acoss the point that it is 'Gold Radio'. There are images of artists from past and present artists to prove that they can cater to all audiences. They have links to Golds Playlists, presenters and schedule so that the listeners are always in the know how about the station which brings the listeners more into the making of the show. On the web page its clear that Vodaphone are their sponsers from this you can tell its not just a local radio. The vocal delivery is conversational instead of BBC radio 2 which is informative.  I went and listen to one of their day time show with David Andrews, I listened live at 1:49pm. The ratio of music to presenting has gone up to 90% just because at this time of day the radio is in the backround to listen to. There is a news presenter who speaks informally and her pace is quick but understandable and her tone of voice is in mono tone. Her accent is British and the sentance structure is set in a proffessional manner which makes it appropiate to the audience. The presenter didnt talk much which made the show boring because of the mix's and jingles are slightly annoying.

Surge Radio (Student Radio)

http://www.surgeradio.co.uk/

Surge radio is a student radio station for University of Southampton and they have been running for 25 years as surge. They broadcast all year round on at 1287AM, DAB and internet. Giving people access to listen to it when away from college also giving the local community the chance to listen. I listened to this radio station on 1st November 2010. The music that is being played is the UK top 40 charts and other mainstream music inbetween the songs. There is lots of audience interactivity with their request txt in service with shout out as well. The presenter is constantly bringing up the stations name with the am frequency so the audience knows what their listening to. The target audience for this station is 16-25 because of the type of music and style of presenting and music that is being played. The music is very upbeat, playing the clubs latest big hits to get students ready for a night out also with music from the past to get people nastolgic. This is a public service. The ratio of speech is 85% because the show is on at the evening. Between songs theres a jingle to describe what different types of genres they play.

Subcity Student Radio

http://www.subcity.org/listen/ 

This is University Glasgow's Student radio, it is called Subcity. Its a community radio, you can liten to it on FM, DAB and on the internet. This radio station is aimed at 16+, just because of the different styles of music they have different shows which specialise in different genres of music. This attracts all type of listeners as the presenters have full knowledge on what they are playing. I listened to this on Monday 1st Novemeber 2010 at 1:38pm.

The role of the presenter is DJ. The language of the presenter is simple with no use of slang so its not too studenty. She speaks fast in between the songs, only telling the listeners whats been on and whats coming up next with this type of show is appropiate as its only specialised in Electro and upcoming DJ's/Bands. There is a consistancy at how everytime she finished her presenting she is constantly saying the radio stations name and what time it is. This works well for people who are flicking through stations to know what their listening to also its sort of their on phrasing. The presenter has a really strong Scottish accent which blends in well with the show because its reginal. Tone of her voice is very easy listening, i could just put this on in the backround while doing my work. She doesnt however have illustrative language as she doesnt have content or a topic to discuss. I think it works well with the target audience as the radio station is specialist to music not just "Banter", on the webiste they say that their there for "Music lovers". I do find that i want her to have a bit more enthusiasm because it gets slightly boring. The music programming for student radio is usually recent music from all different types of genres or easy listening music during the day time. Whereas with Subcity theres genres for all types of audiences which i absoulty love. There isnt many student interaction with the shows which is a bit of a let down if there's one song that you really wanted to listen to you cant ask for them to play it. There also isnt a UK top 40 charts, this shows that the radio station is not mainstream unlike so many others. This is a public service. The ratio of speech to music is 90% which is really high but for their target audience it works well. Every show has its own personality to the genre of music which makes it more exciting for the listener. Their website is basic white with grey, it has some colour with the hyperlinks. The logo is in graffiti to emphasis the fact that its a student radio station aimed at students.

Production (Adult Contemporary)

For our idea, its a drive time show on the evening, at 5pm, traffic report and have feature of when were you when this was on. Past winners come in from the first show. eddd, luke and ania for the three winners. Family fortunes, with point system. Jingle for the frequency. Advert for itv shows. Sound Fx. Offical Radio for ITV. Bit a bout corry, emmerdale and x factor.  Chris and Cara presenting. We did our radio clock and running order.
Wedensday 13th October we planned what we were doing in our shows, we chose to do our slot at 12:30-1:30.

Production On Our Radio Show (Student Radio)

On Thursday 30th September, we were assigned into groups. I was put in a group with Chris Joynes, Cara Carter and Zac Bishop. We were then told what genre of radio we are making. For our first show we have to do student radio. We made a brainstorm of ideas in the lesson of what we are doing for the show. We came up with the idea that Zac willl be presenting the show, Chris does the news and sport, Cara does the interviews and I do the techniqual aspects such as arraging the music, jingles and mixes. We all came up with our running clock and running order.


On Tuesday 5th, i came in on my day off and helped Chris with the news research, i also chose some songs for our show and downloaded them. Because i had my hospital appointment i came in late.


On Wedensday 6th, we decided to go first so we can get all our recording done. We did the intro of our show and placed on our show. Zac was doing the editing and putting everything on the time line. Me and Cara wrote a script for people we asked to read off, this is for our feature 'What happened to me today'.
We then got our volunteer's to the radio studio, i booked a zoom and they said their lines into the zoom. I then put it on the computer. We then recorded Chris's news and sport in the radio studio.
We eventually got the radio peacied together.

Aberdeen Student Radio

Aberdeen Student Radio

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/asr/

For my first radio show i am analyising Aberdeen student radio, they havent come up with a name for it which is unsual seeing as every other station has come up with their own name and branding. I analysed this radio station on Thursday 7th October at 10:15am. The target audience is 18-22.When i first started listening to it i was instantly hit with Salt And Pepper-Push it. From that i can tell that they choose music that is easy listening, high tempo and from all era's of music not just recent music thats been released. When you click listen live on thier website your met with a box that says chat to the presenter. The radio show is trying to get the listeners involved in the show which in every station works well. While listening i noticed that there is some techniqual problems because every time just push it finishes and the next song starts it cuts and goes back to the last 1 minute of the song. This Happened 5 times which i thought was a major flaw in their radio show. I had to close the window and do another analysis and go back to the station. There are no jingles inbetween the songs which made it sound like you just put your ipod on shuffle. There hasnt been a presenter talk at all. You can listen live on the campus, on the radio as its a commuinity radio and listen on their website. Even when i listened to the radio station at a later time the music is still from all types of decades such as classical. When the two presenters started there bit, the male presenter instantly asked about requests and included the stations email. They have lots of homour and fade out the back round music when thier talking. Even had features such as how posh the female presenter is. I felt that i could laugh along to their games. The Back round music is from 'The A Team', with their target audience they would recongnise it especially when the film came out a few months ago. When i analysised it again later on, the music was working again. This time there was two presenters, both female. On thier website it has three main colours, neon pink, vibrant blue and pinewood. The font is in white and pink which works well with the colours. there is a huge picture which takes up the page in this picture there is a picture of the presenters shot in sepia, i dont like the effect because for a new listner tuning in you dont see their faces and its not clear that its the presenters. The ratio of speech to music is 80% which is surprising because the conventional student radio at this time of day they usualy just play and mix music. I think these presenters tone of voice isnt sutible because of the tome of voice used. They aren't exciting enough and their personalites dont come out enough when presenting but they are conversational. The music switches between the show, before was easy listening, after its today new music this works well for the target audience. When playing a song such as 'Pink' has a new song and it had "shit" in. When the song finished there was an apoligy but she talked that there was any copyright??The roles for the two presenters doesnt come across clear. The language they use is simple, no use of long words and use slang words such as 'Lez'. There is no awkward silences between both of the presenters they certainly flow. The phrase structure is layed out so that the audience can understand. The bredth of vocabulary is simple with no long words. The sentance structure isnt really impressive as it sounds like their just improvising, there is alot of banter netween the presenters but as a listener we dont understand because they havent gone in depth of the subject. There isnt any catch phrases but they do use alot of qoutes of such as 'Slip Of The Tounge' and 'Back in the day'. The pace of converstation is very slow which is a let down because it sounds like they have colds or just couldnt be bothered which cant help with the ratings. The topics they go one about such as University work and the parties that are going on.

Listening And Evaluating 3 Different Radio Stations (Music Programming)

A good presenter is ment to entertain the target audience of a radio station and have a wide selection taste in music, they must be passionate in radio and have the experience to work with a mixing desk. They must speak clearly so the audience can understand what they are saying and have a positive tone.
I have listened to three different types of radio shows; Music show, Adult Contemporary and Student radio, these all have the same basic structure of a radio show. There is presenting on the show, the days top headlines, weather, travel and competitions but this depends on the target audience and genre.

 Adult Contemporary
http://www.mygoldmusic.co.uk/

For this genre of radio show i analysed a radio Station called Gold, I listened to it on their internet website. i listened on Wedensday 22nd September at 21:49. The show that i listened to is "Dean Martin's Gold Requests", the type of music that is being played is old 60's hits this ties in with the target audience of the show which is 30+ because the music is easy listening like back round music. On this particular show there is  audience interaction because of the show is a 60's request show so listeners ring up and ask to put certain music on from that era. Every show plays songs from all different types of decades so it isnt just from one decade give the listener more range of music from the past. This is commerical radio and has a lot of advertiments such as the link that plays the show has a tenor lady pads advert this relates to the older audience and these adverts are played in the breaks of songs. They broadcast the news every hour with the weather and sport this is informative. The presenters tone of voice was very smooth and has a 60:40 ratio, music being the biggest. The branding for Gold is they have their own jingles that the listener can recognise that its gold radio station their listening to when they tune in. The vocal delivery of the presenter is informative like the presenter is speaking formally.

Student radio

http://www.demonfm.co.uk/ 

For my student radio i analyised the radio station 'Demon fm', this is a student radio station abd this is broadcasted at De Montfort University's Leicester City Campus. I listened to Demon Fm, Thursday 23rd September at 11:01. This radio station is running as a community radio station. This radio station is commercial because its all independant. The type of music they play is the latest music from any genre, they dont tell the listeners what their playing so its like an assumption that their listeners would already know what is being played. Demon fm is like the other two radio stations that i analised, you can listen to it on radio but only in Leicester, they do have a website where you can listen to it live. They also have a podcast on Itunes where you can download it and it contains the best bits of their shows. I one of the songs they played the sound quality wasnt as good as the other stations, this may be due to the equipment they are using. The ratio of speech to music is 80:20 this is proberly because during the day the students are in lessons or they only have proper shows at night as this when they tune into the station. The target audience for this station is 16+ because of the genres of music being played and how recent its been released.