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    Radio Magazine

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    This is about the radio magazine. I searched all over the net about the description of a radio mag but found none. I cam up with this individual note on radio magazine . This shall be very helpful mostly for media scholars.

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    The key takeaways are that a radio magazine is a variety program that combines spoken and musical items to inform and entertain listeners. It requires planning the content, target audience, and other elements.

    The components of a radio magazine include a title, signature tune, content menu, introduction, listener participation, and information variety in formats like voicecasts, dispatches and interviews.

    When producing a radio magazine, important factors to consider are the presenter, sequence of content, linking style, use of music and effects, and timing of items.

    WHAT IS A RADIO MAGAZINE?

    A Radio Magazine is a variety or mixture of items

    Aiming at a specific target

    With a definite style

    Having different formats

    Magazines combine both the spoken and musical items


    making it entertaining and interesting
    with a purpose to inform

    The magazine program is a mixture of topics, contributors and ways of presenting them,
    using various techniques. It is a program, which taps the resources of speech and music
    and the noises and sounds of the human environment. A magazine is a mixture of topics,
    contributors, formats or techniques but is aimed at one audience and has one style and
    one narrator or a personality producer.

    PLANNING A MAGAZINE

    How frequent?
    Daily? Weekly? Fortnightly? Monthly?

    Whom to target?
    The educated elite? The common masses?
    Is there a special type of audience?

    What is the subject?


    Is it general? Literary, Digest, Popular
    Sports? Film? Science? News?
    People: Children? Women? Youth?

    How much Variety?


    Spoken content: interviews, dispatches, tips,
    eyewitness, talklet, discussion
    Longer: playlets, shorts, features
    Musicals: songs, music bytes, effects, instrumentals
    ARE YOU READY?

    A Radio Magazine needs:


    A title - Signpost which explains the AIM AUDIENCE AREA
    A Signature Tune - Like the cover in print Radio Magazine
    should have a catchy musical byte conveying the purpose.
    Ideally, a 15 min. music piece is enough to establish

    Content Menu
    Spells out the variety of the items included in
    the magazine

    Introduction
    This is like the editorial: speaking a short theme
    suitable to time
    giving a thought

    Listener's participation
    To give vent to their voice and make them feel included
    entertain their requests, enlist their participation
    for quiz, other competitions,
    help-line, phone-in and casual visits

    Information Variety
    Voicecast, dispatches, interviews, filler tips, playlets,
    shorts, songs, music and effects
    PRODUCING A RADIO MAGAZINE

    • Presenter
    The most important factor for steering the magazine
    A good broadcaster with good articulation
    Able to take listeners consistently

    The presenter regulates the tone of the program by his approach to the listener. These
    could be friendly, warm, chatty, humorous, serious etc.

    • Sequence of the content


    Establish with an interesting and topical introduction
    Start with a solid and short opening
    to be followed by longer sequences
    Avoid repetitions of subject, format, or ideas
    Reject anything long and dull
    Ask yourself: is this above the listener's head
    or remote from their experience?
    Make deliberate contrasts for smooth flow

    • Linking Style
    Be consistent, target friendly, chatty and humorous
    Find a theme, take a cue, make a link
    Move on to hold the attention of the audience

    • Music and effects


    A major component: to evoke interest,
    to keep the sequence, to ensure smooth transition
    Can follow or precede to break monotony or
    part of an item of the magazine
    It must be supportive to the theme

    • Check your time to select items or music


    Delete, reduce, and recast whenever it sounds dull
    • Listen to the recording with associates to
    check time, content, accuracy or last minute change
    • Preview and review

    Remember! With radio, the audience is anything but captive and needs a strong item at
    the beginning. Your task is to hold the listener’s attention through the successive items to
    the very end.
    THE RADIO MAGAZINE PRODUCTION
    SUMMING UP

    PRESENTER
    • The most important factor for steering the magazine
    • A good broadcaster with good articulation who is able to take the listener consistently

    SEQUENCE OF CONTENT
    • Establish with an interesting and topical introduction
    • Start with a solid and short opening to be followed by longer sequences
    • Avoid repetitions of subject, format or ideas
    • Reject anything long and dull
    • Ask yourself: is this above the listener’s head or remote from their experience?
    • Make deliberate contrasts for smooth flow

    LINKING STYLE
    • Be consistent, target friendly, chatty and humorous
    • Find a theme, take a cue, make a link
    • Move on to hold the attention of the audience

    MUSIC AND EFFECTS


    • A major component: to evoke interest, to keep the sequence, to ensure smooth
    transition
    • Can follow or precede to break monotony or to separate a part of an item of the
    magazine
    • It must be supportive to the theme
    • Check your time to select items or music: delete, reduce and recast whenever it
    sounds dull
    • Listen to the recording with associates to check time, content, accuracy or last minute
    changes
    • Preview and review
    EVALUATING A RADIO PROGRAM: POST MORTEM
    ASK
    What audience was the program aimed at?
    What was the purpose of the program?
    Was the broadcast time ideal? What would have been the ideal time for broadcast?

    ITEMS
    Were the items suitable for the program?
    Why were they included?
    How was the treatment? Was it the best way to treat the items?

    INTERVIEWS, REPORTS AND OTHER FORMATS


    Did they give the facts completely?
    How were the questions in the interview? Badly phrased? Unnecessary? Searching?
    Arrogant sounding?

    VOICE AND TECHNICAL QUALITY


    How was the technical quality?
    Was the program well edited?
    How was the program structured? The beginning, the middle and the end?

    NARRATION
    Quality of writing: Was it ideal for radio?
    Was it accurate, clear and brief?
    Vocal quality of the narrator: Pace, pause, tone, emphasis, conversational.

    MUSIC SELECTION
    Was it suitable to the program?
    Was it suitable to the time of broadcast?
    Were the individual items properly bridged through music?

    PRESENTATION
    Consider the theme: aptness and timing
    Flow of the program and the links
    Variety in lead ins and back announcements
    Credits and titles
    Overall program: Did it have variety?
    Was it interesting?
    What impact did it have on the listeners?
    TESTING SCRIPTS

    After writing a script, read it aloud, preferably using a cassette recorder and play
    back.

    • If it isn’t easy to say then it isn’t easy to hear


    • If it sounds strange its difficult for the listener to understand
    • If its ambiguous the listener gets the wrong idea
    • If it is complex the listener is lost; attention is lost
    • If it is any of these CHANGE IT!

    THE SCRIPT WRITER OFTEN ASKS

    • Is it worth saying it? It often isn’t


    • Does it make sense? It often doesn’t
    • Is it all to the point? Check it out!
    • Is it in logical order? Find out!

    GET USED TO SPEAKING YOUR SCRIPTS ALOUD AND YOU WILL THEN
    GET THE RIGHT SOUNDING WORDS IN YOUR SCRIPTS!

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