Radio Newsday Two - Talbot FM (17.02.10)

Talbot FM has a smaller geographical area, focusing on Dorset, and a younger audience18-30 so students, young professionals and young parents. For this bulletin we were looking more at the news that would be expected on Heart FM.

Stories such as the aftermath of the Brits, and Alexander McQueen's inquest were particularly strong stories for younger audiences. Teaming this with a local quote it localized the second story.

Other stories, although not necessarily focused for younger audiences, would be of interest to those in the area. Firstly council tax rises would be important. We tried to give broad information from across the region, including Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch and the County Council. This story could, however, have been stronger if we could have linked it to our specific age range. The Vox Pops used in the first bulletin would have been more appropriate if they had been with younger people.


11 o'clock bulletin

Another important story was Ray Gosling’s arrested. This has huge public interest, due to the current debates going on about euthanasia.

I felt we kept a clear in and outro to our bulletins offering consistency, referring them to later bulletins. However, there could have been more. Two big stories of the day were the latest unemployment figures, and council tax rises. Both stories were dealt with in the first and third bulletins, but should have also been placed into the second. Although the unemployment story in the third bulletin did have strong clips with local people just back from traveling.


12 o'clock bulletin

Having sport, with a sport correspondent, throughout each bulletin added consistency, however, during the shorter bulletins this could have been a little confusing to hear, and maybe did not need the second correspondant.

I felt once again we were ambitious with our bulletin, trying to update them every-time with new stories and new clips. This was somewhat more successful than our first week as although our final bulletin ran over 30 seconds too long, we did get all scripts and clips ready on time. Forward planning at the beginning of the day, helped this, trying to keep stories going, knowing what needed to be updated and having stories that could be held back for later bulletins.


1 o'clock bulletin