Media Studies - Research List

All research featured in this blogpost was independently conducted by me (Maxi).

 This blog post features a list of different radio shows that I have listened to and what I have learned from them.

RadioX: 

Format: Talk show/Podcast

Topic: Guessing who a famous person/celebrity is as the hosts ask them questions about their rise to fame, etc.

Speakers: Chris Moyles (Main Host) + 3 Secondary hosts (2 Male, 1 Female) + Guest

Sound Effects: Radio X Jingle (Non Diegetic Sound)

Timeline: 

Minute 1: Promotion for the Global Awards Show & Radio X Jingle

Minute 2: Guest enters the show

Minute 3: Small talk, questions

Minute 4: Questions

Minute 5: Questions

Minute 6: Guest is revealed

Minute 7: Further Questions about career/life

What I like about RadioX is that it keeps up with the younger listeners and is able to keep listeners interested by including interesting segments in each broadcast. The hosts are generally entertaining and the target audience would probably be young adults from the ages of 18-35.

Phoenix Radio: 

Format: Current events/updates

Timeline: 

Minute 1: Talks about the G20

Minute 2: Talks about todays traffic and heavy rain

Minute 3: Song requests from listener

Minute 4: Song

Minute 5: Song

Minute 6: Advertisement

Minute 7: Next song

What I like about Phoenix Radio is that it caters to its audience. Most of its listeners are young adults and working age'd citizens. The songs they play keep up with pop culture and update its listeners on current events happening around them.

93.3 FM:

I listened to 93.3 radio for 20 minutes while on the drive home from school and what I liked about 93.3 was that they included song requests from listeners and played songs that were popular among their audience, which would probably be young adults from the ages of 18-30. Their hosts were energetic and there was rarely ever any dead air.