An Annotated Bibliography
Steven Castellano
Monmouth University
News in Radio
People are interested in hearing something new everyday on broadcasting radio stations. It can be news, music, sports, etc. What is interesting is how news from a radio station snatches a huge number of audiences. It is well known that people are interested in particular topics that keep them tuned in for new news content. Studies and writings published by researchers in this topic have been evaluating how listeners are attracted to a specific radio station as well as how media content is broadcasted all over locations in the world. By being tuned into a radio station, listeners are willing to hear more future news content to be broadcasted …show more content…
For future research, researchers ‘should rely on wider data sets,’ (Page 228). The wider the data set, the more understanding researchers would have on radio journalists developing decision making processes.
Magee, S. (2013). All things considered : A content analysis of national public radio's flagship news magazine from 1999–2009. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 20(2), 236-250.
The purpose of this article was to show how today’s media world is changing covered news from All Things Considered (ATC) revealed topic changes
Newell, J. (2007). Revisiting schramm's radiotown: Media displacement and saturation. Journal of Radio Studies, 14(1), 3-19. The purpose of this article was to show the changes of media use in a small city. The researcher noticed a small city named Quesnel, located in British Columbia Canada, received poor television signals whereas a similar town named Langley, located in western Canada did have television. This situation provided the researcher to come up with a hypothesis that new media will substitute for the old …show more content…
(2010). Earwitness testimony: Applying listener perspectives to developing a working concept of “localism” in broadcast radio. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 17(1), 33-47.
The purpose of this article was to show the connection of individual operated radio stations in specific areas. Researchers hypothesize that radio broadcast will stay precious.
In this study, it applies to approach and explore radio listening. Researchers have selected three locations in Iowa to do this study. Each location contains a broadcast market. The three locations are Cedar Rapids, Coralville, and Audubun. Cedar Rapids, which represents “the metropolitan area,” (Page 39). Coralville is a town close enough to Iowa City where it holds “a mid-size market,” (Page 39). Finally, Audubun a town located near the border of the state holds a “small sized market,” (Page 39).
Three focus groups are assigned each with a range of eight to twelve participants. The participants played the role of listeners to the radio. The results in this group study suggested changing the media environment for the broadcast radio news. Overall, listeners are returning to using the community radio station as a source of receiving