Radio Production: A Manual for Broadcasters

by RobertMcLeish (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.23

  A complete working handbook on every aspect of producing radio programmes to a professional standard. From operational techniques to news production, conducting interviews, writing radio scripts, news-reading and presentation, making commercials, producing different types of programme formats, outside broadcasts, music recording, features and drama, and programme evaluation: everything you need to know is laid out in a clear, accessible and readable manner.
  
  This hands-on text will suit students on radio and media production courses, staff on in-house training courses and anyone in the field of radio production wishing to brush up on skills and the latest technology.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $4.19

  This book gives the newcomer to radio broadcasting a professional understanding of the medium. It describes the operation of the radio studio in its most typical form around the world, and provides some detail of the equipment needed in the production process. It gives an in-depth analysis of how studios work and how best to use them for all aspects of programme making. Newswork, presentation, interviewing, writing, sport commentary, the making of commercials, drama, music recording, music programming, magazine phone-ins and documentaries are each covered. The training of broadcasters is detailed with practical exercises. Now completely updated, this third edition contains: more on digital equipment and computerisation; more on news reporting of conflicts such as Bosnia; new chapters on listeners letters and programme evaluation; and substantial new sections on public service broadcasting, making commercials, voice training, course organization, drama production, using CDs, and interviewing through an interpreter. The book has been written with the international radio producer - local or national - in mind. It should be of interest to broadcast training departments, colleges with courses in journalism, media and drama radio productions, individuals studying radio programme making, and media training departments.