Script for the radio show

Hello and welcome to Jersey News at 10, I’m Michael Morris and here are the main headlines throughout the island.

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Please forgive me: Jersey’s health minister Jim Perchard has apologised for swearing in the states chamber

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Jersey Live Headliners: The Kooks have been confirmed to play the festival

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Morning-after pill row: A pharmacist who refuses to give women the morning-after pill based on her religious beliefs

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Durrell rescues mountain chicken: The wildlife conservation trust coming to the rescue of an endangered species

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Today’s top story, Jersey’s health minister has apologised unreservedly for swearing in a states chamber meeting at a fellow politician. Perchard is claimed to have directed “unstatesmanlike" language towards Senator Stuart Syvret. Senator Syvret claimed the Minister told him to "go and top himself", something Senator Perchard continues to deny, however, Perchard has admitted to saying something undignified in the states chamber. Perchard was unavailable for comment, and the outcome of this incident is still yet unknownm however, inquests will be made into the nature of these comments.

The headliners for Jersey Live music festival have been announced. The Kooks will close the Sunday of the festival which takes place of the 4th and 5th of September. The Kooks will join Basement Jaxx on the bill, who will be headlining the Saturday night. The rest of the lineup is yet to be confirmed, but we spoke to people about this announcement and gathered their opinions of the headline acts that will be playing Jersey’s biggest event.

(Vox Box, speak to three or four people, getting their opinions on this announcement)

The row surrounding the pharmacist who refuses to dispense the Morning-after pill based on religious beliefs has increased. Many women were left furious that they were not able to acquire the pill from the pharmacy. The pharmacist in question could now face charges of professional misconduct. The Island’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr Rosemary Gellar, had this to say
(Clip of person talking: The emergency contraceptive pill MUST be available seven days a week, regardless of religion)

Durrell, Jersey’s wildlife conservation trust has once again come to the aid of an endangered species, the mountain chicken. This breed of frog, which can be found on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, is becoming increasingly wiped out by a deadly fungal disease. Durrell staff hope to bring a healthy group of this species back to Island for breeding purposes.

That’ all on today’s headlines, I’ll now pass you over to our sports correspondent, Barnaby Orr.

Barney now speaks

Thanks Mike

The Island’s football season is drawing to a close, with three teams still battling for the league title. Trinity, St Paul’s and St Brelade’s are all still in the running for the title after all three gained hard-fought victories at the weekend. Trinity came from a goal down to beat First Tower 2-1, and St Paul’s and St Brelade’s both won 1-0 against Jersey Wanderers and St Peter’s respectively. Those wins mean that there are just 2 points separating the three teams, with four games left to go.

Jersey’s rugby club stretched their unbeaten streak to four games. They won on Saturday 24 points to 17, that win now puts Jersey in second place in the table, fighting for promotion.

In Cricket, Jersey Farmers thrashed the Centurians, winning by 124 runs. The shock result means that the Farmers have moved away from the relegation zone, whilst denting Centurians title aspirations.

That’s all from me with the sport, we’ll go back now to Michael Morris

I speak

Cheers Barney

Now for the weather report, today’s weather will be fair, but cloudy, with temperatures reaching a maximum of 13 degrees Celsius.

Thanks for listening to me, Michael Morris; I’ll be back in an hour with a more in-depth news round-up.

Applications I will use

In order to make my news broadcast, I will use two different programs, they will be GarageBand and Synergy. I will use GarageBand in order to make the news jingle as this is a piece of software that will enable me to incorporate different sounds into the jingle. I will then use synergy in order to record the talking within the show. I will use this program as it is designed specifically for radio broadcasts. I will then return to GarageBand in order to edit the pieces together.

For the voice recordings I will use the radio equipment we have available to us, as this will offer a clarity of speech and make the dialogue sound more professional. For the outside recordings, I will use a standard voice recorder as this is easy to transport and gain the outside broadcasts that I need. This piece of equipment will also mean that these particular sections of the broadcast will sound like they have been recorded outside, making the overall piece sound far more believable and realistic.

Features of the broadcast

There are a number of different features that I will use in this broadcast, the running order will be:

Opening Jingle
This will include a very brief roundup of the headlines that will be discussed in the show, as well as offering an opening to the radio broadcast

Current Affairs
This will be a normal news presenter that will inform listeners about the main stories, giving in depth details about the nature of each off the main stories

Vox pop
This will be included within the current affair section, where the presenter will pass over to a correspondant who will be asking questions of the general public, based on a certain news story.

Sports Correspondant
This will feature all the sports news, as the sports specialist will give details about the island's sporting stories.

Weather
This will include infomation regarding the tides and surfing conditions off the island, as well as the standard weather infomation.

Summary
This will be concluded by the main presenter who will offer a short round-up of the stories that had previously been discussed.

Closing Jingle
This will be similar if not the same to the opening jingle, this will be the rounding up and closing to the news bulletin.


Timescale

Given that this is just a 5 minute broadcast is important to be brief, whilst covering the stories. The estimated time for each section should therefore be around this:

Opening Jingle - 10-15 seconds
Main News Headlines and coverage of the stories 2 - 3 minutes (The main headlines will include the vox pops and interviews relating to a specific story
Sport - 1 - 1 1/2 minutes
Summary and weather - 30 Seconds
Closing Jingle - 5 seconds

Aims of my news program

My news program will feature local and current news stories, which will cover the biggest stories throughout the island of Jersey. It is important in the news to have a section which exclusively covers current events, however, during my news program I wish to include other topics, including a sports section and news on the weather. As Jersey is an island with many beaches than infomation based on the tide and surfing conditions should be given, as the island has a large surfing culture. Given that the news bulletin will only last for five minutes it will be important to be brief and only cover the main stories, so therefore current affairs, sport and weather will all be included in my bulletin.

Target Audience for Main Task

Gender

For a news bulletin, there shouldn't be any male or female based news, and the bulletin should be made with both genders in mind. The main task of the bulletin would be to provide news on a local basis, and thus will not be aimed with just one gender in mind. Different stories may attract different groups of people, but generally a news bulletin is uni-sex.

Age group

Generally a news bulletin would be targetted at the 30 plus, and I would therefore try and make mine fit this age range. The news stories should therefore be aimed at this age group, and would therefore include important local news from the Channel Island area. The news should take a formal format in order to attract the 30 plus age range, as the formal nature of the news would attract more from this target group.

Interests

In order to target the 30 plus age range, the news broadcast should be informative and formal, whilst providing factual stories on a local basis. The stories should be centered around being aimed at this audience, however, other important news stories should be covered even if it may not appeal to the specified target audience. For example, a major news story in Jersey, is the fact that the band The Kooks will be headlining the JerseyLive music festival. Whilst this may not be directly appealing to the target audience of a news bulletin, I shall still include it as it is a big story within the island.


Market Research
In order to find out what sort of news people are most interested in, it was important for me to carry out some research into this area.

The results were:
Type of News Percentage
Current Affairs 27%
Politics 10%
Sport 19%
Local News 28%
World Events 11%
Weather 5%

My news broadcast should contain examples of all these topics, however the ones most people want to hear about are Current Affairs, Local News and sport. Therefore these will be the main subjects of my news broadcast.