City News Radio (11th Feb 2022)

Metropolitan Police, President Biden on Russia, Ukraine, and more in the programme!

For this weeks programme I was the production producer, which saw me create content for on-air (jingles, actuality clips, and packages), drive the 2nd production desk in the secondary studio, and provide a ‘creative moment’ to lighten the programme.

Highlights of my role can be seen at:

(1:53) (30:55) (32:40)
These are the bulletins I had to drive the desk for. The trouble is, the script did not match up with what actually happened on air – with producers and editors telling me once we’d gone live what was happening. Because of this, I had to listen out for cues that weren’t written in the script to get the right mics live

(24:15)
I helped entertainment producer/presenter Linda a lot with her stories: editing the copy, providing a number of actualities for her to choose from, and writing a segue to my later package later in the programme.

(50:10)
This package was my “creative moment”. I was a little confused as to what that was supposed to be, and after talking to the editor and the previous week’s producer, this is what I understood the creative moment to be. It was also a challenge tonally. I’m so used to the intonations and tone of a presenters voice but had to make myself sound more colloquial for this package.