Friday, 11 December 2015

Survey Results impact & Structure.

 This is a prime example of the standard our surveys were filled out to. We made tewenty surveys and got responses from all of them. The majority of people stated that weather news was important to them. 80% of people said that this is impoortant. This gave us the impression that we should include weather news in our bulletin. This showed us that it was more important in the listeners eyes than sport. We've decided to omit sport news because of this. 16/25 stated that entertainment news is important for our bulletin. This is more people than expected from our target audience so we will dedicate a considerable amount of time to it. Many people didn't care about the gender of the newsreader, or the accent that the newsreader has. Suprisingly many people wanted to include political affairs in the bulletin. This is an usual result but we will include a couple of political cover stories. The want for music news varied throughout responses. We found that this varies based on personal taste. We have decided not to delagate specific music news slots but to include it in the entertainment section. This is becuase we think that our target audience will be intrested both types of story.

Here is our timetable for running the bulletin:

News- 2;30 mins
Entertainment (including music)- 1:30 mins
Weather- 30 seconds
Polotics- 30 seconds

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Planning Stage Phase 1

We have decided to stick with the name Rebel Radio from our preliminary task, This is because it carries good illiteration and sounds modern and trendy. We decided that this is the best name from the others as for the other suggestions we used a random name generator. They were pretty whacky and I remeber us debating on whether or not to use the name 'Lemons FM'. We decided that our target audience will be people from 14-18 years of age. Mostly females as we will be playing hit chart music. 

This is the generator we used: Radio Name Generator. We found the suggestions it gave us were inaproppriate for our target audience as they would find the names too complex. They were also Americanised which does not fit well for a British radio station. Some of the names that the generator were so funny! Here are just a few of my favourites: 


  • Wise FM
  • Smooth Groove FM 
  • Route 81 Radio 
As you can see. The third one sounds obsure to a British audience as we don't name our roads 'routes'. Wise FM sounds too old for the audience as they could be insulted by the name and sounds like it is aimed at a wider target auidence. FM would also only label us to one streaming option. Smooth Groove is just too cheesy and sounds slow and boring. We are aiming to create a strong upbeat radio. Rebel Radio came around when we were thinking of names and it just was brought up in conversation.