217;. Within radio and television there is a protocol of programming structure which is based largely, though not entirely around news. Both television and radio have their feature, regular and changeable content, it is neat, precise and conscientious of the audiences concentration span. Daily the viewer/listener know when certain programs are on, television and radio is now a 24hour affair and news is the major player in this formulated setting. The timetable has structure and it follows it 365 days a year. Radio and television (along with the press) are the primary pick up points of news within this country, there is a need to know when and where you can find this information. Radio and television have their respective, continuous, scheduled broadcast. Film, in respect, is a single entity on which I will expand on later. Despite this similarity between radio and television, a news program itself can show the differences between the two. The presentation differs, not purely that one can be seen and the other cannot but the choice of what is to be presented and how. The editor of the television news must decide what can be shown, television has visual censorship to take into consideration, radio does not. A spoken radio description of ethinic cleansing during war could talk of atrocities that could not be visually broadcast, if indeed the footage was available. Radio in this sense is like the difference between reading, say horror novel and watching the film. The creation of your own picture. Within television and film the picture is given and it cannot be changed, although the role of editing cannot be understated. The radio report relies on the spoken word, the writing of the program is therefore approached differently. Film and its involvement with news is worthy of mention here. Film format was, and still is used, within television production and up until the eighties it covered news, yet film in the cinema...
