5 News Outlets
Sports related:
Sky Sports News Broadcasting:
This programme has no more than two presenters that usually adopt a formal but still approachable style to their presenting. It has both men and women working in presenting and gathering the latest news at different news areas across the country. The news is repeated often with the same style approach, and scripted language. It does stay away from gossip news, and news unrelated to the sports covered themselves, although if a topic does influence the sport, for example Tiger Woods’ affairs meaning he would not be competing, then they would air this with something along the lines of;
‘Tiger Woods will not be competing in professional golf for six months, as problems regarding his personal life have come to light and he has taken the decision to suspend all entries into competitions.’
Hull Daily Mail Local Newspaper Print:
This newspaper has the sports section regarding local sporting events located at the back, usually taking up no more than six pages. It covers the main sports such as Rugby League and Football, but also other local sports such as Ice Hockey, Boxing, and Speedway. It has a local writers approach with a chatty but impartial view from main editor or writer, but also has columnists such as Peter Swan giving their opinions, which can sometimes be subjective. The language used is informal, but also intriguing as it holds personal regards to the readers who would only read that particular section if interested in that area. Therefore, the style does not need to entice the reader as much as other subjects, but needs to deliver the news with a factual but detailed approach to satisfy the reader.
The Daily Sport Tabloid National Newspaper, Print:
This newspaper covers a range of stories and topics from different sports, but unlike others, it will bring unrelated items to sport into the fray. Topics such as affairs, scandals, fixing and personal lives of sports people are of interest to this newspaper. It will look for stories deeper into the personal lives rather than the sporting interest of the reader, and therefore makes the paper a god gossip read rather than a factual intellectual piece that engages with the sole purpose of the paper. The style is chatty, but subjective, and can also have opinionated views rather than factual truths, although it would be un ethical to print complete lies, so the stories are sometimes over exaggerated and prolonged to keep a story going and make it more widespread than it actually is.
Sky Sports News Online:
The Sky Sports Online website has a more accessible and discussion based approach. There are comment boxes for readers to leave their comments, and there are videos and pictures incorporated on to the site to entice the viewer to stay. The style of writing is very descriptive and formal with a clear underpinning and outcome of the action underlined. This style is almost a step by step talk through of the story, weather it is a game or a news story, it is always in depth and analysed and descriptive. The layouts don’t often change, and they keep sports and related topics grouped so that they are easy to find, and they have related articles placed next to each other for maximum choice to the user.
BBC Radio Humberside Sports Talk Radio:
The BBC sports talk radio has an informal chatty and discussion based approach. It will start by introducing the topics, the main news, and then ask the listeners to get involved, and encourage them to contact the show to have their say. The hosts are always chatty, informal, and listen to the listeners, and let them have their say without questioning their opinions. The show brings to light any local events, latest news, and does this with a fun and approachable manner which makes the show accessible for all to listen to, and is also very topical and factual to the sports discussed.
Piece for Humberside Radio sports talk 6 – 7 pm
‘Hello welcome to sports talk here on BBC radio Humberside, tonight we will be discussing recent events with regards to your local teams here in East Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire. So today there are reports that another Manchester United youngster, left back Joe Dudgeon, may be on his way to the Tigers to join up with many other youngsters that have come here from old Trafford, the likes of Corry Evans, James Chester and Cameron Stewart have already flown the nest and joined the Tigers on permanent basis’, another may be on their way, what are your thoughts on this?. Is it a good thing that we are catching the youngsters that are leaving the academies at top clubs, or should we be looking for more experienced players to aid the youngsters already here? As always we welcome your thoughts, give us your calls texts and emails to BBC radio Humberside sport, and we will be on air for the next hour or so discussing various other topics too.
Why have I chosen this style?
I have chosen to write the piece in this style as BBC Humberside sports talk is an informal chatty sports call in that is all about the listeners’ views rather than the host’s critiques. It gives background to the main news of the day regarding each topical sports or club, and then influences the listeners to get involved and give their thoughts by getting in contact. This is a style that is continuous, and the programme never runs with just the hosts talking, as this is the whole point of the show, to have debates and influence the public to air their opinions. I chose this to style to fit the market of listeners that have discussions, and want to interact with the show. The hosts speak in an informal and approachable tone and language style, quite the opposite to the usual BBC style and tone. This is because it is a local discussion based programme, rather than national news orientated factual scripted one, that doesn’t interact with the viewers or listeners.
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