formats and segments

• Formats & segments


  • Deciding what to say and how to say it
• Broadcast program classification based on

  • Function - what's your goal?
  • Format - how will you present the content?
  • Audience - who's it for?
• Function


  What's your goal?
• Function-based program types


  • Informational - improve awareness
  • Educational - build knowledge and skills
  • Entertainment - provide amusement
  • Infotainment
  • Edutainment
• Dramatic format-based program types

  • Anthologies - separate stories per episode
  • Series - same characters in separate stories
  • Serial - continuous story
• Non-dramatic format-based program types

  • News - commentaries, news analysis
  • Public affairs - panel/roundtable discussions, edited news, commentary
  • Talk - interviews, discussions
  • Special events - public service, bantay halalan
  • Magazine - combines different segments
  • Documentary - bring awareness, spark action, inspire
  • SOA - well planned nonformal educ prog
  • Radio forum - listening groups w/faci and sec to facilitate discussions
• Audience-based program types


  • Age: children, youth, parents, mothers, elderly
  • Interest/livelihood: farmers/agri sector, business sector, sports enthusiast
• Segments/treatments


  • Straight talk - continuity script, can be descriptive, analytical or personal
  • News - straight news, edited news, news commentary, news analysis
  • Dramatization - short dramas, portrays real-life situations
  • Feature - interpretation with facts, not fully objective
  • Interview - MOS, KII, personality
  • Plug - 20-60 sec announcement or message
  • Trivia - popularized info tidbit from credible source
• BRIDGE MSC


  Used in radio feature, used in bridging lengthy segments
• BGROUND MSC


  For dramatization
• Trivia lead is usually a question