LO1 - Different types of programmes (P1)

Talk/music

Capital FM 

Capital FM is a radio station which broadcast their music and talk on the station. They invite celebrities mostly music artists in which music they broadcast on the station, inviting these celebrities entertain the audience making the radio station more appealing. Capital FM advertises globally and locally. This radio station can be listened to globally via mobile, radio stations in cars, laptops, etc. Capital FM even have an app which you can download on any device so you can listen to it adding on to the concept of listening to the station globally. I would say this is unique as most radio stations are not accessed globally as well as maintaining their own app for their audience to use. 

Conventions of Capital FM:

• Sound effects, when bringing celebrities for entertainment purposes and to fill their fans on information on the celebrities life in the audience they play sound effects if they wish when they're talking or when a joke is made to lighten the mood even more, other stations don't usually do sound effects. 
• Broadcasting at the right time, this radio station broadcasts during rush hour in the mornings on the way to work and school and after school and work. In the evening they let the radio play on however they are not controlling it they would usually leave the remixes of the songs be played on the station for anyone who is still tuned in on the station instead of turning it off completely. 

Sport

BBC sport 5 Capital FM advertises globally and locally. This radio station can be listened to globally via mobile, radio stations in cars, laptops, etc. Capital FM even have an app which you can download on any device so you can listen to it adding on to the concept of listening to the station globally. 

This radio station talks about sport related news and mainly covers anything to do with sports. This allows the audience to listen in to urgent stories and events of sports that the station talk about for their audience. This station is designed to fulfil the audience about sport events and news as well as entertain and involve them within the news and events. 

Conventions of BBC sport 5:

• Target audience. BBC sport 5 gets a hold of their target audience which are of the age 25-54 as they mainly focus on talking about news to do with sports and covering sport events. This station is known for covering major sports evens and involving the presenters. 
• Entertainment. BBC sport 5 entertain their audience via interviewing players from the sports they cover when broadcasting to involve the players with the audience and to let the audience know how the game went for them and what they were going through when playing and what they think of the outcome etc. 

Current events

BBC news

This radio station is known for talking about current news that goes around the world or within its country region. It mainly talks about global news if it is an urgent global issue/news/event that everyone needs to know. However, this station talks about news events which happen within local areas of the country it is broadcasting in. they talk about the event, the people involved, witnesses and who came to help/rescue and how it is being resolved and what might happen next they also let us know about those who get injured within the news if it is needed. 

Conventions of BBC news: 

• Broadcasting. BBC news broadcasts within rush hour times, you can listen to the news on the way to and back from school/work which is convenient as this is the target audience for the station which is logically smart to get more of their audience listening in when broadcasting, when their audience are free. 

Lifestyle

BBC Asia 

This radio station includes a few channels such as BBC earth, BBC first and BBC lifestyle. BBC lifestyle talks about real life related stories to relate back to yourself and to think about to perhaps change your lifestyle and how you view things in life. This channel mainly has shows about cooking, you can learn many recipes off of these shows, a few shows are MasterChef, Great British bake off and My Swedish Kitchen. One unique feature is the structure, it contains highlights for the audience to look back on which is useful.

Conventions of BBC Asia: 

• Broadcasting. The channel has many episodes of shows broadcasting at different times which fit within their target audience for each show to make it convenient for the audience. 
• Structure. The show contains highlights of the shows episodes once they have been broadcasted for the audience to look back at if they have missed an episode. 

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