Product Description

This applied text offers a comprehensive introduction to the principal skills involved in producing radio programming, from short packages to magazine programmes, from live sequences to commercials and more. It sets production within a range of different contexts - professional, institutional and historical - providing the underpinning knowledge needed to reflect on radio for academic purposes. Organized around the most commonly-studied radio genres, Starkey offers an ideal blend of theory and practical guidance, which is particularly useful when writing evaluations. The book is supported by extensive illustrations, a full glossary, references to further reading, tips on getting into radio and exercises to develop practical and critical skills. Ideal for anyone studying radio, the media, communications and/or journalism, at undergraduate, HND and postgraduate levels - as well as for short courses in radio or audio production techniques.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #294626 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-25
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Guy Starkey has worked as a producer and presenter on a number of different radio stations in both the commercial sector and forces radio, in locations as diverse as the Middle East and Merseyside, UK. In 1991, he began teaching on a number of media programmes at Farnborough College of Technology, moving in 2001 to the University of Sunderland, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer in Radio. He is Chair of Examiners in media for Edexcel, for whom he has helped develop national qualifications. His research interests include radio audiences and the nature of balance and bias.