Comparing News Bulletins

None of the radio stations that I listened to contained the same news stories which implies that the news editors of each station had chosen the stories that will appear in the news bulletins not only on the basis of news values, but also because of how the stories will appeal to their respective target audiences.

Some of the stories on Kiss appear to have been chosen because they will appeal to a slightly younger audience (for example the TOWIE story).

The audience for Radio 2 is defintely older than that of Kiss and this is reflected in the types of stories chosen for their bulletin (for example the story about the economic issues in Scotland. I think, also, that the stories chosen for Absolute where also aimed at an older audience.

I was surprised that none of the radio stations contained the same news stories as I expected at least two stories to have appeared on all of the stations (particularly as the bulletins were aired at the same time on the same day).

To double check, I'm going to listen to another two different radio station news bulletins to see if they have some of the same stories regardless of their audiences. I am going to listen to 1pm news bulletins on Magic  and Radio 2.