News and Audience

Monday 9th January 2017 📅

News and Audience 📖.

Top 10 National and International News Stories from this weekend 🌎:

1. Mental health care overhaul pledged by PM🏥
2. Tube strike🙅
3. La La Land sweeps Globe Awards🏆
4. Blind children 'abused by headmistress'👀
5. Several held over Kim Kardashian robbery💰
6. Johnson meets Trump's team in New York🙏
7. Met officers consulted on carrying guns🔫
8. Streep attacks Trump in Globe speech💬
9. NI police warn parents about text 'codes'📱
10. Red panda cubs frolic in the snow⛄

Top 5 Regional News Stories from this weekend 🏠:

1. Teenagers who climbed Tamar Bridge 'unbelievably stupid'😑
2. Shotgun attack - cat has leg amputated😿
3. Overturned lorry closes A30 sliproad🚛
4. Surfer injured in 30ft wave wipeout🏄
5. Dolphins filmed swimming in St Ives harbour🐬

Target Audiences for each program:

• Newsround - Probably for pre-teens like under 13's and for people living in the UK. Child friendly so it doesn't scare them, not much politics or stories that don't interest a child.
• BBC 10 O'clock News - Mature adults, probably 30+ living in the UK. Lots of politics and serious stories. International and national.
• Spotlight - For people living in the South West, 13+ ages. Wide variety of stories.

Prediction for News :

• Radio 1 News - Kim Kardashian story, tube strike
• BBC 6 O'clock News - Tube strike, Boris meets Donalds team, health care overhaul and blind children abuse.
• Spotlight - Tamar Bridge teenagers and the lorry.

16 January 2017

I think today Radio 1 will lead with...
'Trump: UK doing great after Brexit vote'


Stories - Predicted Order:

1. Somerset Stroke charity fighting to keep funding.
2. Ponies on Bodmin Moor being poisoned by remains of tin mines.
3. Two roads in Plymouth closed after traffic accidents.
4. People of Bridgeport took part in tradition of Wassailing: singing to trees for good harvest.
5. Exeter MP calls for PM to break her silence over Trump and Russia.
6. Weather🌞

Correct Order:

1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6

Possible News Day Order:

1. Bodmin student to attempt to break world record in Australia
2. UK military building laser weapon
3. Impact of Bodmin roadworks
4. Bodmin nature reserves in danger
5. Bodmin steam railway joining mainline
6. Tulip use hawks to cull seagulls
7. New bike park in Cornwall
8. PA might be moving to championships
9. Rebecca Puckey wins Music Crowns competition
10. Tom Butler interview (big wave surfer)
11. St Piran's Day celebrations - 5th March
12. World Pasty Championships at Eden - 6th March
13. Impact of big freeze on UK?
14. Weather/surf report