Planning a TV news running order: blog task
Name the TV news programme you created a running order for in this morning's lesson.
BBC News at six
List the five stories you chose and explain why you chose each one.
- A passenger plane has gone missing whilst flying over the south pacific towards Australia. Four British people are believed to be on board.
- Buckingham Palace has announced Prince Harry's engagement.
- A women has been convicted of murdering her husband. He was a wealthy banker and she a stay-at-home mum.
- An anti-austerity march against government cuts has been help in London today and was attended by 50,000 people.
- A well known politician has been named on Twitter as being investigated by police for fraud.
'A passenger plane has gone missing whilst flying over the south pacific towards Australia. Four British people are believed to be on board.' this is an example of uses and gratification: Blumer and Katz theory of surveillance as it is important news which should be informed to the audience of the British which is useful news.
Now choose one of the other TV news programmes we have focused on and choose a five-story running order for that programme. The four TV news programmes are:
- Channel 4 News
- BBC News at Six
- BBC3 60 Second News
- BBC Newsround
The available stories are:- A tweet by Miley Cyrus telling a fan to ‘get a life’ has started a ‘Twitter storm’.
- Israel has shelled a residential area of Gaza killing around 25 civilians.
- Gunfire has been reported on the streets of Moscow although no there are no details as yet regarding who has opened fire or why.
- A well-known politician has been named on Twitter as being investigated by police for fraud.
- Cheryl Cole has announced she is pregnant.
- David Cameron’s office has announced he will be visiting Washington next week to meet President Obama.
- An anti-austerity march against government cuts has been held in London today and was attended by 50,000 people. The protest was calm.
- A new series of BBC drama Sherlock achieved record viewing figures last night.
- Lady Gaga is in London and has been spotted jogging in Hyde Park.
- A woman has been convicted of murdering her husband. He was a wealthy banker and she a stay-at-home mum.
- Two prisoners convicted of armed robbery have escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London.
- 20 people were killed in 15 different road accidents over the previous weekend.
The stories in which I would use for Channel 4 News from the list above are (in order):
- A passenger plane has gone missing whilst flying over the south pacific towards Australia. Four British people are believed to be on board.
- A women has been convicted of murdering her husband. He was a wealthy banker and she a stay-at-home mum.
- Buckingham Palace has pronounced Prince Harry's engagement.
- Israel has shelled a residential area killing around 25 civilians.
- Two prisoners convicted of armed robbery have escaped from wormwood scrubs prison in West London.
5) Explain why those stories fit the target audience for the programme you have chosen.
These stories fit the target audience for the programme; Channel 4 News as the target audience for Channel 4 News is:
- 18 - 45 years
- ABC1
- Educated
- Graduated
- More males than female
Therefore, for example with the story of "Israel has shelled a residential area killing around 25 civilians." this would be a chosen story for Channel four news as it gives an educational approach as it is informing the public about what is also happening abroad and not only national news. Also, since the majority of the target audience is either educated or most likely to be graduates, it would be suitable as they will be aware and know about the technical language in which they would have to use in order to talk about what is happening in Gaza. Lastly, since the target audience age range is 18-45 it would be likely to talk about things in more death such as the killing in which the Israelis went through.
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