Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Not more sequel puns if fifthquelly getting annoying

So let’s dive in again shall we?, this week we were treated to the appearance of guest lecturer who was none other then Radio lecturer and Lincoln universities community radio station manager Andrew David.

What Andrew did was to shake the whole guest lecture set up, which can be compared to adding cheese to a salad, fresh and a little more flavour. He asked to present our questions in lines with the 6W’s about Siren FM. So here’s what we learnt:
  1. Started out as an online radio station broadcasting from two till six
  2. Lecturers, students and the public can volunteer and the station runs schemes to get those less fortunate on the air.
  3. Caters to an audience of nine to twenty five, however depending on the time it could change.
  4. The studio was funded by the University.

So here’s what should be a consistent feature for each week of what shocked me. This week my shock came to me that the actual difference between mainstream and community radio stations is that community stations are looking for those niches, shows on Siren like motor mechanics or Roller derby would never get onto Radio 1 unless they were a wacky feature. As Andrew David said he’s looking for what’s in-between our ears (not hair) to make a show special which could be stripped down to those to super employable words creativity and orginiality, technologies gotten to that point it can create your bog standard music show, what makes it special is the bits in between the songs, the interviews, the features and the guests all of these are so key to making a show which would catch a listeners ear. I also found that mainstream radio is missing a serious niche, the 9 to 25 years olds and those with specialist hobbies like Jazz and projector noises, if the BBC saw these holes and dedicated little less time to over hyped DJ’s and more time to their audience figures should surely shot up quicker then Mentos in a coke bottle.

1 comment:

  1. And hopefully you might even get involved in this (the most exciting) type of radio station?

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