Radio Industry - Lesson 1

 Radio - Late Night Woman's Hour

Why do people listen to radio:

  • It is usually in the background everyday
  • Car rides in traffic
  • Interviews with celebrity's
  • lots of different types of music
  • Niche specialist, or mass market
  • Audience interaction
  • low production values
A podcast is a pre-recorded digitally distributed audio recording

LNWH
Initial analysis:
  • Stuart Hall - reception theory - viewers response or interpretation to a media product; preferred, negotiated, oppositional. 
  • Henry Jenkins - Fandom - people that are heavily invested in a media product
  • Clay Shirky - The end of audience - Audiences behaviours have changed due to the internet and the ability for audiences to create their own content at home at lower costs 

Late Night Woman's Hour is an occasional and irregular spin-off of the long-running magazine show Woman's Hour. Broadcast late at night, it's content can, at times be considered more niche, edgy or more potentially controversial than the main broadcast.

Each episode focusses on a particular theme relevant to it's female target audience.

Played on BBC 4 

Broadcast late at night

More edgy than normal woman hour

Sometimes more controversial 

Who is the specific audience?    

  • not just woman
  • Middle aged
  • middle class
  • Magazine show - combines a lot of themes so it might appeal to a wider audience or at least some parts will even if others don't
no set episode


13 mins clip - Make up on public transport 

Emma Barnet - Interviewer
"people tut when someone did their make-up on public transport"
"womens mornings are busy so that could be the only time to get ready for their job"

The preferred reading for LNWH is to provide a number of different responses from its target audience - middle class city dwelling people
Focusing on the commute as a shared experience
Themes of section: Putting make-up on the train 
Hegemonically appropriate or perhaps inappropriate practice of putting makeup on in public transport 
Women are stereo-typically supposed to be composed in public








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