Comparing Local Radio Station News Bulletins

Neither of the randomly picked local BBC radio station news bulletins that I chose to listen to contained any of the same stories. I expected this to be the case as I suspected that local radio stations would choose most of the stories aired, because of the news value familiarity.

Although on BBC Radio Manchester all of the stories where chosen because they related to the local area, on BBC Radio Bristol two out of the four news stories where not as geographically close to the listeners (such as the story about the sacking of the Cardiff City football manager). These national stories must have been chosen because of their amplitude.

Although local radio station news bulletins do sometimes contain national stories, I think that the majority of the stories will be to do with the area of the station. This is something that I will consider when I write my own stories.