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Radio Session 3 - Analysing A Show


OK, you've analysed a station in terms of its programme types, genre and audience/listeners. Now time to pick a show from the station and analyse that in order to achieve criteria P2. Remember, every criteria has to be achieved in order to complete the unit.

 AND MAKE SURE THAT THE SHOW YOU ANALYSE IS FROM THE SAME STATION YOU'VE ALREADY ANALYSED.


Get your analysis together as follows. 

1. OPEN UP A NEW POST. Call it 'SHOW ANALYSIS'. 

2. Listen to at least half-an-hour of a show from the station you've written about. Use the following subheadings in bold and do what I've asked for in italics to complete your analysis. 

Programme Name: Give me the full name of the show. 

Station: give me the name of the station it appears on. 

Date/Time/Duration: give me the date the show was broadcast, the time it was on and how long the show lasts in hrs & minutes. 

Presenter(s): Give me the name(s) of the main presenter(s) 

Presenter Style: tell me the kind of tone the presenter has - is he or she  serious/ informal/ chatty/ hyped-up and frantic /downbeat and relaxed? What's their pace of delivery when they talk - speedy/fastchat or more conversational/gentle? Do they have an accent? If so, from where? Do they have any catchphrases? 


Running Order – listen to half an hour of a show and tell me about what happens. I've given an example from a previous learner as follows (remember, anything in red that you don't know the meaning of you should research yourself. . . 

Station Ident/Jingle
Presenter Stab/jingle 
Song 1 Sam Smith I’m not the only one
Presenter Stab (Radio 1) (sequenced into next song)
Song 2 Duke Dumont I need You 100%
Link 1 Introduces next track, told us what was on
Song 3 Ella Henderson Ghost
Link 2 Good afternoon, time, Radio 1, Talked about breakfast show and Teen awards, Labrinth interview (guest), Innuendo Bingo, 5 seconds of Summer doing Live Lounge, go online to watch feature, (MUSIC BED COLDPLAY SKY FULL OF STARS)
Song 4 The Script Superheroes
Link 3 Coming up exclusive brand new Calvin Harris, Ed Sheeran, told us what last record was. 
Feature – Going home song – with presenter talking in-between content- send me a text (audience interaction)
Radio1 Live Lounge Presents Ident
Song 5 Ed Sheeran Don’t
Link 4 Tell us what was on, then station stab Coming up certain songs, time, Rhianna film review, text me, Labrinth is on later,
Labrinth songs edited and sequenced back to back (DANCE MUSIC BED), Introduces brand new exclusive (using music as intro over link)
Song 6 Calvin Harris Blame
Song 7 Taylor Swift Shake it off
Radio 1 News

As you can see - the person who did this hasn't transcribed EVERY SINGLE WORD the DJ said but they HAVE given me a basic breakdown of what happened in the half-hour they listened to. If you can use words like 'music bed' that'd be good. 

Music Featured - list the songs used in the half-hour you've listened to. 

e.g from the show above . . . 
Song 1 Sam Smith I’m not the only one
Song 2 Duke Dumont I need You 100%
Song 3 Ella Henderson Ghost
Song 4 The Script Superheroes
Song 5 Ed Sheeran Don’t
Song 6 Calvin Harris Blame
Song 7 Taylor Swift Shake it off


Summary/Overview: I want you to give me a paragraph just giving me your general thoughts about the half-hour of the show you listened to. Some of the questions you could answer in this paragraph include . . .What type of Music is it - what genres featured? Why do you think the presenter played those songs for that show and that audience? Were there any competitions? What were they for? Who were they targeted at? How many times did you hear the stations name?How many idents, jingles, stabs were there? How many commercials were there? What were they for? Who were they targeted at? Were there any interviews? if so with whom and why? Was there any traffic & travel, weather? If so for where? Was there any live music or was it all just tracks?Was there any news? Was the presenter funny or annoying? Did they say anything of interest or was it all just chit-chat? 

WHAT YOU SHOULD END UP WITH 

A post that analyses a half-hour of a show broadcast on the station you analysed in the first part of your radio work. 
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