OFCOM Service Sheets

After searching through this website, I came across something noticeable, it was a section that included all the current commercial radio licenses for existing radio stations.

I researched a variety of different radio stations with different licenses to get and idea of who the audience for that radio station was and the type of music played on each station.

The first service sheet I looked at was for Capital FM. Here, the audience for the station is defined in terms of age or gender, but rather is described as 'service for under 40s in London'. The type of music played on the radio station does not appear. This station broadcasts to a national audience. 

The second service sheet I looked at was for the radio station Gold. Here, the audience is targeted for 35-54 year olds around the London area. The type of music which plays on this station is only classic pop hits.

KL.FM is described as a radio station that targets a relatively small, local community. On the  service sheet, there is no mention of the age of the target audience which implies that it is aimed at everyone in the Kings Lynn area. The type of music the station plays is vaguely described as 'broad'. This radio station serves a far smaller population. 

Secondary Research Into The Audience

To understand existing radio stations better, and to enhance my knowledge, I have decided to go on the OFCOM website which contains information about radio audiences in the UK.

                   
                                                                OFCOM Website

After gathering information from the OFCOM website and even the pages which have intel on radio broadcast licenses, I understand the type of music played on particular radio stations. In addition to this, an idea of the target audience for those radio stations in terms of location and age.

My Questionnaire

This is my questionnaire which I created and will hand out to a variety of people. This will help me begin to script my radio show.

Here is the link:

http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/BGG53/

Primary Research For Audience

I have also conducted some secondary research and listened to lots of different radio stations, its become clear that I am going to research some primary research as a form of an questionnaire. This will highlight to me what the audience expect when they are listening to a radio.

When creating my radio show, I've realised that I need to think very carefully about who my target audience is because this will determine at the end after I completed my radio show. For my radio show I need to identify certain aspects for example gender and age. I'm going to have to make sure that when writing my script that I choose music which is sensible and reasonable to my target audience.

In order to determine who my audience is I will conduct both primary research and secondary research. For my primary research I will do a questionnaire which i would give to people to fill out. This will help to determine who my audience will be. Secondary research will be research that others have already conducted.

Representation In News Bulletins

Representation is a main aspect in media and I am going to show my understanding of representation throughout the radio which I will make. When choosing people for my script, I will have to think carefully of who to use, so that I get the appropriate representation across to my audience. I also need to think about the different representations in my adverts, for my news presenter, voxpop and soundbites and for the presenter of my show. I will even need to consider how the jingle should blend in with other jingles which I will be using i.e. news jingles.

After listening to different radio stations local and national, I will analyse the similarities or differences between the way that the presenters deliver the news in terms of the language that they use and the tone. I suspect that the news presenters on Capital FM will be much more chatty and informal than the news presenters on BBC Radio 4, who is likely to use more gripping language and deliver the news in a more serious tone of voice. I expect the news presenter on talkSPORT to be a male figure and deliver the news in an informal tone.

The area of representation I am going to analyse is the representation of news presenters. I've decided to listen to bulletins from 3 very different radio stations aimed at very different audiences. These stations are Capital FM, BBC Radio 4 and talkSPORT.

What I did first, was that I listened to a news bulletin on Radio 4. The presenter sounded like a middle aged man in his early 40s and he spoke clearly and slowly. He tended to use formal language regardless what the story is.  An example of this is how he first addressed the listeners by saying the time and date and then 'good morning'.

I then listened to a news bulletin on Capital FM. The presenter here was both a male and female presenter, however sounded significantly younger than the presenter on Radio 4. They both spoke in a much more informal way and seemed to have friendly banter with the other presenters on the show.

I also listened to talkSPORT radio. The presenter was a male who sounded middle aged, however not as old as the presenter on Radio 4. He presented the news with a relaxed tone of voice and spoke at quite a fast pace compared to the other two radio stations.

Jingles

The listening that I have done so far, even though it has been about news, has drawn attention to the different types of jingles that are used on a radio station.

• Station jingle - It contains the stations name, the frequency, a slogan that sums up the radio stations style and aims at the type of target audience. The music here reflects the genre.
• Show jingle - Each show is likely to have a slightly different identity and any slogans or music used will reflect either genre of music played on the show. There is also likely to have a station name and frequency, name of show and name of presenter.

List of jingles:

• News jingle - News jingles usually include the name of the station and the frequency, and will include the word 'news' during the slogan. The music used during a news jingle is likely to be more serious in tone, reflecting the serious nature of the news stories that are presented. Many of the news jingles that I have listened to have used music that is uptempo and fast paced.
• Travel jingle - As with other jingles, there will be reference to the station and the frequency and the jingle is likely to include sound effects of possibly traffic. There may also be a reference to a sponsor that is likely to be related to transport.
• Weather jingle - Similar to the travel jingle, weather jingles are often sponsored by an appropriate company. Any sound effects are usually weather related  and any music is likely to be more calming and peaceful than the music used in a travel jingle. Again, this kind of jingle is likely to include the name of the station and the frequency.

Conventions Found In Radio News Bulletin

After analysing and listening to lots of new bulletins from different kinds of radio stations, I have seen that often stories use a range of reporting, illustrating and elaborating, which helps us understand what is happening in the news story. Therefore, in this post, I will be talking about the conventions I found when listing to the radio news and looking at other news conventions which tends to be on the news.

1) Correspondent:
This is a journalist or commentator being live at the scene of the story. A correspondent places some of their own opinions into the news piece and report as they see things happening. They may provide this information through video, vocal recordings, or written articles.

I found an example of this when listening to the radio station talkSport at 6pm from 27th September. This was where the news presenter is speaking about the talk which the FA is talking about. After this, it cuts to a clip of the correspondent Jim White, where he was talking about his opinion on Sam Allardyce's role for England's football team.

2) Voxpops:

This is where informal comments come from members of the public, who are giving their opinions on what is happening in the story. This gives the news bulletin an alternative viewpoint. 

I found an example of this when listening to the radio station Capital FM at 6pm from 27th September. The news presenter was talking about the rollercoaster crash happening at Alton Towers. Then it cuts to the clip where a member of public who was at the event gives their opinion on the event.

3) Sound bites:

This is a piece of dialogue about a story that captures what the speaker was trying to say. It is used to summarise information and grabs the reader or viewers attention. An example where this is used is at a press conference.

I found an example of a sound bite when listening to the Capital FM radio station on 27th September around 6pm. This was when the chef executer of Merlin Company talks about the incident of the rollercoaster crash.

4) Outside Broadcast:

This is a radio station that is recorded or broadcasted live on location and not in a studio.

I found an example of this on talkSport from 27th September after 6pm, where the news presenter is talking about Sam Allardyce's transfer rules. Then the news reporter says "sports communist Jim White spoke to our sister station Talk". This then cuts to whats sounds like a prerecorded voice of a reporter who is delivering further information about the story.

5) Expert/Guests:

This may be a guest/expert in the studio who is talking about a certain event or being interviewed about a certain issue. This can also be heard on the phone or being at the studio. For example a guest on a music radio station may be interviewed for a recent song which made it to the top 10 music chart.

Overall the radio station news bulletins which I’ve found conventions for such as Capital FM and talkSport had mainly  conventions found in news stories to grab the readers attention, unlike BBC Radio 4, however. When the conventions are included, it allows the listeners to hear different opinions regarding the news stories. From doing this task, I’m going to think carefully about which presentational devices would be most appropriate for which stories.

Comparing Local Radio Station News Bulletins

Both radio stations news bulletins that I chose to listen to, did not contain any of the same stories. I expected this due to the case that the radio stations are being board casted at two different locations.

Although on BBC Radio Gloucester, all the stories related to the local area. However, on Pirate Fm, one out of the four news stories talked about what happened somewhere apart from the UK, such as New York. This national story was chosen because of its amplitude.

To conclude, local radio station news bulletins do sometimes contain national stories, most of the stories will be about what is happening around the certain area. This is something that I will consider when I create my radio station and put in my local news stories.

Analysing Local Radio Station News Bulletin- Pirate FM @12pm

Running order for the news bulletin at 9th October @12pm:

1. Headline: Police Car stolen and saw on the M4 heading East

Facts in the story:

• Police station was burgled on Friday night.
• Keys to a marked police car was stolen.
• Car was spotted on M4 heading East
• A 23 year old man and 31 year old female was arrested.
• The police used a stinger device to stop the stolen police car.

News Values

Familiarity: This has happened on the M4 and therefore this is geographically close to us.

Predictability: We did not expect this to happen because police stations have cameras everywhere and is strictly guarded and somehow these to people managed to take a police vehicle.

Balanced: This news is not a negative story due to no-one were injured or hurt.

       2. Headline: No more gluten free prescriptions

Facts in the story:

• Fears cut to gluten free prescriptions in Cornwall.
• Have long term health risks.
• NHS are stopping food for people, who are diagnose with celiac disease.

News Values

Familiarity: In this story, the location of where this event is happening is in Cornwall. Therefore, this is culturally close to us.

Amplitude: This is a big event which will change many peoples health who are already suffering from this.

Balance: This is a good news because, there will be more lives saved by cutting down gluten free prescriptions. 

Personalisation: This is a human interest story because the NHS are helping people who have the celiac disease.

         3. Headline: Man saved from burning flat

Facts in the story:

• A man was pulled from his burning flat in early hours this morning.
• Fire Fighters were called by a worried neighbour.
• Smoke alarm going off.
• The man was rescued from the lounge of the ground floor flat.
• He was given first aid.

News Values

Immediacy: This has happened recently, and therefore was heard/told on the radio news.

Personalisation: This story is a human interest story because it a heroic one due to fire fighters managing to save the life of the man.

Balance: This could be a negative and positive news. This is because the negative side of this, is the flat he was staying in, he has no longer. The good side of this news is that he was alive and given first aid. Therefore, this balances other news story.

Predictability: We expected this to happen because this normally happens.

         4. Headline: Disaster when train de-railed in New York

Facts in the story:

• Around 100 ppl have been hurt.
• 11 people have been taken to hospital after it happening on Long Islands.
• None of the injuries tend to be life threatening. 

News Values:

Familiarity: This event happened in New York, and therefore is geographically close to us.

Amplitude: This was a big event which affected many people on the train when it de-railed.

Surprised: This was an unexpected event because this does not tend to happen with many people injured.

Negativity: This is bad news because people were hurt and taken to hospital

Impact: This may affect people because they could be scared going on a train and for it to de-rail. They do not want to get injured.

Analysing Local Radio Station News Bulletin- BBC Radio Gloucestershire @12pm

Running order for the news bulletin at 9th October @12pm:

1. Headline: 2 men has been released of murder

Facts in the story: 

• The 2 men has been released on Friday.
• They both murdered a man.
• The 2 men were not charge.

News Values:

Familiarity: This news story has happened in Gloucestershire and therefore is geographically close to us.

Impact: This story has a profound effect on our own lives because people may not know if these two men will strike again and therefore will make us feel threatened because they could be anywhere. 

Conflict: It may contain arguments because these two men were not charged for what they did, and the family who it would effect would want them to be charged for committing a crime.

Negativity: This is a bad news story because they murdered someone.

       2. Headline: Man died after being stabbed

Facts in the story:

• The man was stabbed around 5pm on Friday afternoon
• Paramedics and police went to the location where this occurred.
• The man who was stabbed was only 49 years old.
• He died an hour later after being stabbed.

News Values:

Immediacy: This story has happened recently

Familiarity: This is a local radio and therefore this story is occurring in the local area.

Frequency: This event does happen often because it is a knife crime and this generally happens.

Impact: This story has an effect on our lives because it is a knife crime story and it can happen to anyone.

Negativity: This is bad news because somebody got stabbed and then died after one hour.

         3. Headline: Cheltenham High Street closed

Facts in the story:

• Police close Cheltenham high Street.
• Officers investigated a double assault.

News Values:

Familiarity: This news story is happening locally and therefore is on the local radio station.

Surprised: This is an unexpected and unusual event because this doesn't happen especially on a high street with lots of people.

Conflict: This is because people are getting hurt and will create fighting between the people.

Negativity: This is a bad news story.

         4. Headline: plan to force firms to reveal foreign workers numbers abandoned

Facts in the story:

• Government ministers have abandoned proposers. 
• Firms with low numbers of British born employers maybe named and shamed.
• The defence secretary is disagreeing with this.

News Values:

Amplitude: This news story involves a large number of people in the government and the British employers.

Immediacy: This has happened recently and it is a breaking news. Therefore, it was heard on the local radio station. 

Conflict: There will be arguments between the Defence Secretary and the Government Ministers.

Comparing News Bulletins On Local Radio

I am now going to compare and contrast two local radio news bulletins, aired at the same time, to see if the stations present similar news stories. However, I think that the stories will be completely different, due to the local areas the radio is in.

Radio News- Conclusion

After analysing these 3 radio stations, I found out that these radio stations had similar news to each other, but was worded differently, even though the stations are targeting completely different audiences.

What I also found out while finding the news values and facts about the news in the radio stations, is that even if the stories are so breaking, they appear on the radio station regardless what type of station it is. For example news such as the Alton Tower Rollercoaster disaster and Sam Allardyce fighting for his place in England. 

When I come to write my new bulletin, I will take into account a mixture of stories which is for the target audience and some which are not.

BBC Radio 4 News Bulletin- 6pm

                                             

Running order for the news bulletin at 27th September @6pm:

1. Headline: Sam Allardyce is fighting for his job

Facts in the story:

• Leaks on film breaking football transfer rules.
• Having business deals on player transfer.
• Sam Allardyce had to talk to the FA bosses.

News Values:

Surprised: This is an unusual event, because he just became the England manager and now did this bad event.

Immediacy: This story is still ongoing to see if he stays as manager for England or gets removed.

Negativity: This is bad news, especially for the England team and the supporters/fans.

      2. Headline: The worlds first baby has been born using a new technique

Facts in the story:

• Born from 3 DNA from people.
• Baby will become healthy.
• Researchers has stated that this is a big step forward.

News Values:

Surprised: This is an unexpected event because this has never been done before.
Balance: This is good news as it balances all other news.
Personalisation: This story is a children based because it is about a baby been born.

       3. Headline: Jeremy Corbyn is making his own case.

Facts in the story:

• Making a case for a nuclear free world, even though his policy is to renew.

News Values:

Immediacy: This news story has happened recently. This is a breaking news for UK and therefore appeared on the radio.

Balance: This radio story can be good because it means we are taking away all nuclear weapons and we will not be able to produce it again.

Conflict: This radio story will have arguments between the UN and other countries around the world because some countries might want to keep nuclear weapons and some do not.

         4. Headline: Educational fees for children in schools

Facts in the story:

• Location base is in Wales.
• Government are replacing tuition fees.

News Values:

Familiarity: The location where this is occurring is in Wales. Therefore, it is geographically close to us.

Amplitude: It does effect a large number of children attending schools across Wales.

Personalisation: This is a human interest story, especially for parents who have children.

TalkSport News Bulletin- 6pm

Running order for the news bulletin at 27th September @6pm:

1. Headline: Sam Allardyce leaks on film breaking football transfer rules.

Facts in the story:

• Sam Allardyce became England Manager only 67 days ago. 
• Filmed video on how to break transfer rules.
• FA chief executor is holding an emergency meeting of this event.

News Values:

Surprised: This is an unusual event, because he just became the England manager and now did this bad event. 

Continuity: This story will be ongoing to see what will happen to Sam Allardyce to check if he will stay as manager or leave. Also, today there was a press conference regarding this issue.

Negativity: This is bad news, especially for the England team and the supporters/fans.

      2. Headline: Owner Merlin of Alton Towers pay fine for rollercoaster crash.

Facts in the story:

• 2 Teenagers had leg problems while on the rollercoaster ride.
• Last June when it happened, it injured 16 people.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story is about what happened at Alton Towers and therefore it is geographically close to us.

Amplitude: It is a big event as it affected many people of rollercoaster and below.

Conflict: This event will create conflict between the families of people who died/injured and with Merlin Entertainments.

Negativity: This is bad news.

        3. Headline: School girl stabbed by a man

Facts in the story:

• Man arrested for suspicion of the 1965 murder.
• 14 year old school girl from wakefield, was stabbed on a toe path when making her way home.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story happened in Wakefield, West Yorkshire and therefore is geographically close to us.

Frequency: This event happens often because in allot of news there is always stabbing. 

Continuity: This story has been defined as news and therefore is not a ongoing/long-running story.

         4. Headline: No sexual assault charges on Sir Cliff Richard

Facts in the story:

• Dropping chargers was a correct thing.
• The Crown Prosecution Service examined 2 victims

News Values:

Elite people: This story contains a well known person such as Sir Cliff Richard (singer)

Balance: People did not  want him to be charged, its not a bad news story and therefore it balances out the negative stories

Capital FM News Bulletin- 6pm

 

Running order for the news bulletin at 27th September @6pm:

1. Headline: Owner of Alton Towers pay record fine for rollercoaster crash last year.

Facts in the story:

• Merlin Attractions has to pay 5million pounds for the Smiler crash of rollercoaster.
• 5 people were injured

News Values:

Familiarity: This story is about what happened at Alton Towers and therefore it is geographically close to us.

Amplitude: It is a big event as it affected many people of rollercoaster and below.

Impact: This story will effect our own lives because it would tell us that at amusement parks, rollercoasters can crash and therefore makes us scared to go on it.

Surprised: This is an unexpected event because the Smiler rollercoaster is a popular rollercoaster, and this has not happened before on this ride, even though it was made new in 2012. 

Conflict: This event will create conflict between the families of people who died/injured and with Merlin Entertainments.

Negativity: This is bad news.

      2.  Headline: Sam Allardyce breaks football transfer rules.

Facts in the story:

• Sam Allardyce became England Manager only 67 days ago.
• Filmed video on how to break transfer rules.

News Values:

Surprised: This is an unusual event, because he just became the England manager and now did this bad event.

Continuity:  This story will be ongoing to see what will happen to Sam Allardyce to check if he will stay as manager or leave.

Negativity: This is bad news, especially for the England team and the supporters/fans.

       3. Headline: Teenager hacking TalkTalk

Facts in the story:

• 19 year old boy named Daniel Kelly, form South Wales
• Black mailing TalkTalk for 100 million pounds.
• Is in court.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story has happened at South Wales. Therefore it is geographically close to us.

Predictability: We expected this to happen because this sort of things happen frequently.

Negativity: This is bad news for the TalkTalk Company.

        4. Headline: First US Presidential debate

Facts in the story:

• Donald Trump claimed there was a problem with his microphone.
• The Republican nominee was asked lots of questions by his rival Hillary Clinton.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story happened at in USA and therefore is geographically close to us.

Predictability: We expected this to happen because it is Donald Trump.

Elite People: This story does contain big people such as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

News Bulletin Comparisons On Different Radio Stations

Having looked at local and national news articles online, I'm now going to listen to news bulletins presented on the radio. During this stage, I'm not sure exactly what kind of radio station I will be doing. Therefore what I am going to do is to listen to a variety of news bulletins on different radio stations and see if the news is consistent even when on different radio stations.

I have chosen news bulletins from 3 different radio stations, BBC Radio 4, Capital FM and TalkSport, from the same time and the same day. I managed to do this by asking another two people if they could record this type of radio station at 6pm. I chose this designated timeframe because it is the main news in the evening. I made them use an app on their phones called Voice memos. This app records any audio you want to save. This worked, however in the future I am going to download the app 'tune in radio' on my phone which will allow me to record any radio at any time.

BBC Radio 4:

Capital FM:

TalkSport:

The things I am going to find out after doing this is to see if the news is similar throughout on different radio stations. I will be analysing each news bulletin later on.

Local and National News- Conclusion

Overall, after analysing 10 local and 10 national news, there was a range of news values being used. When analysing some of my news articles, some did not have all 5W's which I was surprised about. Mostly the articles I found are from BBC News but wanted to change it slightly so looked at different sites not just one website as you can see from my posts. I did this because I wanted to see what other conventions other websites used. After doing all this research and analysation, I understand what I must now include and not to include in my news bulletin. 

Science Local News Analysis

This article was taken from the Huffington Post. This story talks about watching films gives a pain killer.

Below is a link to the full article:

Film Watching- Science article

The 5W's:

Who: People watching films

What: If you watch films its bad for you

When: September

Why: When we get teary eyed it triggers a rush of feel-good chemicals, known as endorphins, which is a pain killer.

Where: Oxford University

News Values:

Immediacy: This has happened recently and is a breaking news because it concerns our health. 

Familiarity: This research where it took place is very close to us. 

Predictability: We did not expect this to happen to us. Negativity: This is bad news because it can cause our problems later on in life.

Politics Local News Analysis

This article was found on the BBC News website. This story explains to us about how the government will change school qualifications.

Below is a link tot he full article:

School qualifications

The 5W's: 

Who: School students 

What: Government plans to change school qualifications 

When: September 2016 

Where: UK 

Why: The Scottish government plans to scrap some unit assessments which are marked by teachers before pupils sit their exams. 

News Values:

Familiarity: This location of where it happened is in the UK. 

Personalisation: This is a human interest story because it is about students and will effect their parents. 

Immediacy: This story has happened recently but is not a breaking news.

Crime Local News Analysis

This article was again taken from the BBC News website. This story talks about Fans at a football match being arrested.

Below is the link to the full article:

Football Fans arrest- Crime article

The 5W's

Who: Football Fan

What: A football fan got a QPR (Queen Park Rangers) doll and he hanged it.

When: Last Week

Where: Glasgow derby at Celtic Park.

Why: Because he does not support QPR.

News Values: 

Immediacy: This story has happened recently but not a breaking news.

Predictability: We predicted this would happen because these sort of things occurring normally happen at football matches. 

Conflict: It will cause conflict between the two teams fans.

Negativity: This is bad news 

Technology Local News Analysis

This article was found on the BBC News website. This article talks about the Silicon Valley Brits.

Below is the link to the rest of the article:

Silicon Valley Brits- Tech article

The 5W's:

Who: Cal Henderson 

What: Silicon Valley Brits had to leave the UK behind. 

When: Earlier this month 

Where: USA 

Why: Because it would have been impossible to start Slack in the UK.

News Values:

Familiarity: The place where this happened was taken from the USA. 

Immediacy: This has happened recently, but is not a breaking news. 

Frequency: This does not happen often. Continuity: This story is already a news but will not be ongoing and long going.

Education Local News Analysis

This article was taken from the BBC News website. This article talks about when children are going on the web, there are getting abuse.

Below is a link to the full article:

Abuse online- Education article

The 5W's:

Who: Children

What: They are being abused online

When: During this week

Where: Around UK

Why: N/A

News Values:

Immediacy: This story has happened recently so therefore it is a breaking news.

Familiarity: This location is close to us.

Personalisation: This is a human interest story because it is about children getting groomed or abused online.

Disaster Local News Story Analysis

This article was taken from the BBC News website. This explains to us that a normal person who was driving manage to rescue people on a bus.

Below is the full link to the news article:

Heroic save- Disaster article

The 5W's: 

Who: A driver

What: He saved passengers on a bus which caught fire.

When: 21st September at 4:00pm

Where: Stateford Road

Why: There was an exhaust Failure  

News Values:

Personalisation: This is a heroic story because it is about a man who saved lives.

Negativity: You can argue that this is a good and bad news. It is a good news story because it shows how somebody saved many people. It can also be bad news because it shows that the bus got destroyed and will take time to clear up.

Frequency: This event does not happen often.

Impact: It can effect our own lives especially the families of who were involved. It could possibly threaten us because we may not want to go on a bus because it may have another engine failure. 

Immediacy: This has recently happen and will be a breaking news because this was a heroic thing which happened. 

Health Local News Analysis

This article was taken from the Health Care Conference. This article explains about face-down physical restraint is still being used in mental health wards.

Below is a link to the full article:

Health Care

The 5W's: 

Who: NHS patients 

What: Face down restraint are still being used. 

When: 2 weeks ago 

Where: UK 

Why: Its happening because it can restrict a patient's breathing, dropped only slightly over the two years following new guidelines. 

News Values: 

Amplitude: It does affect a large number of people many patients who are under the NHS. 

Impact: This can effect our own lives because it can reduce our breathing which is really serious. Negativity: This is bad news because it can make peoples lives at risk.

Business Local News Analysis

This article was found the BBC News website. This article is explaining to us about how the Royal Bank of Scotland wants to expand its branches.

Below is a link to the full article:

Bank of Scotland

The 5W's: 

Who: N/A 

What: A plan by Royal Bank of Scotland to sell more than 300 branches is in trouble. 

When: Last week 

Where: Scotland 

Why: One of the most promising bidders pulled out of talks. 

News Values: 

Familiarity: Where his has happened is close to where we are. 

Continuity: The story is ongoing because the RBS will need to fix the issue to ensure that they successfully manage to spread there branches. 

Amplitude: It does involve a large number of people because if there is not enough of these banks then it will be difficult for the people to travel to where there is branches.

Sport Local News Analysis

This article is from the Evening Standard. This article explains about a legendary footballer who was the first black footballer to play for England.

Below is a link to the full article:

English heritage honour football legend

The 5W's:

Who: Laurie Cunningham 

What: Blue Plaque of English Heritage 

When: September 2016 Where: Stoud Green, North London 

Why: was one of the first black footballers to represent England and became the first British footballer to play for Real Madrid.

News Values:

Familiarity: Where this event happened was close to us. 

Frequency: This event does not normally happen in football history. 

Elite People: This story does contain a famous person we already know who played for different teams and his name was Laurie Cunningham. 

Personalisation: This is a heroic story because he was honoured the blue plaque.

Entertainment Local News Analysis

This article was found from the Telegraph. This story talks about how Mary Berry i going to leave the tv show called Great British Bake-Off.

Below is the link to the full article:

Bake-Off- Entertainment article

The 5W's

Who: Mary Berry

What: Quitting the tv program

When: Earlier this week

Where: UK

Why: Her decision to stay with the BBC is out of loyalty to the broadcaster that gave the show its start.

News Values

Immediacy: This story has happened recently, and the story is a breaking news because many viewers watch this tv show in the UK and now that a main judge has left, it will effect the show later on.

Familiarity: This story has happened in the UK, which we are in.

Surprise: This is an unexpected event because, this has never happened before. This judge was on the show since it started, and now that she has left, it would not be the same show as it used to be before. 

National News- Overall Conclusion

After annotating the 5W's and news values for my 10 national news articles, I found out that in all articles, they have similar values. However, some of the articles I researched did not have all the 5W's which I was quite surprised about. Now that I have analysed these national articles, I understand what to include and not to include in my news bulletin later on when creating my radio project. By doing this, it lead me to deeply think on what my news bulletin should be about if I want to make it effective to the audience, who is listening to my radio.

Disaster National News Analysis

This article is from the BBC News website. This is article is explaining about the Great Barrier Reef getting destroyed.

Below is the link to the full article:

Great Coral Reef-Disaster article


The 5W's:

Who: The Chinese
What: Chinese coal ship to pay $29m.
When: April 2010
Where: The Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Why: Because the coal carrier caused damage to the Coral Reef.

News Values:

Predictability: We expected this to not happen.
Conflict:  The government and the local people will have an argument against China.
Negativity: This is bad news because if the coral reef is destroyed, it will effect tourism because they create revenue and income for the country and if this happens, then tourists would not be able to come. This will create less profit for Australia and will make the economy fall.

Health National News

This article was found at the BBC News website. This talks about how the UN will remove drug-resistant infections.

Below is the link to the full article:

Drug Resistant Removal- Health article

The 5W's:

Who: The United Nation

What: The United Nations have agreed a landmark declaration to rid the world of drug-resistant infections.

When: September 2016

Where: N/A

Why: It is the fourth time a UN declaration has been reached on a health issue following HIV in 2001 and Ebola in 2013.

News Values:

Immediacy: This has happened recently. However, it is not a breaking news because it is one that only a few people know about.

Personalisation: This can be a heroic story because this shows that we are getting rid of diseases which happens. 

Balance: This story is a good news which will help people around the world. This story has balanced other news articles which I have previously done.

Business National News

This article is from the BBC News website. This article talks about how mobile phones will have new roaming charges.

Below is the full article link:

Data Roaming new plan- Business article

The 5W's:

Who: EU travellers

What: Time limit on free roaming for travellers using mobile phones have been  under new European Commission plans.

When: Earlier this month

Where: Europe

Why: Next year in June 2017,  limit on roaming charges has been in place with a full ban. From this point, people within the EU will be charged the same as they would be in their home country.

News Values:

Familiarity: This article is close to us, The people involved are from european countries.

Balance: This story is a good news for EU travellers and has balance the previous news.

Surprise: This was an unexpected event but in a good way because it will make a change to us and even the travellers who visit countries.