LO3: Three's A Crowd Treatment

Radio Programming Proposal

Three’s a Crowd.

Name or title of program: Three’s a Crowd.

Length of show: 30 minutes. 

Genre or type of program: 

    Comedy – This will bring an audience who enjoy comedy, and enjoy jokes and humour. 

    News – This will bring people who like to hear the news in an untraditional way. 

Brief description / synopsis: Our comedy view on the news, this is beneficial for listeners in two ways. The first being that we provide the news, this is what listeners like as it informs them on happenings in the world. However we also add a comedy twist to it which means it is delivered in a way that would interest people more than a traditional news program would. We will promote local bands and some weeks interview them.

Production method:  Live ☑ Recorded  Both

Target audience

Time of day: It could come out any time between 6:00 and 8:30

Day(s) of the week: Monday and Thursday

Intended age of audience: 16 to 21

Other target details: We aim to hit A,B,C1 males of the local area.

Show Presenters/Hosts

# of Hosts: 3 

Name/Descriptions of hosts:William Taher, will find news and out talking subjects.

William Kirby, is going to find the music. 

Andrey Yushin, will edit the show.

                                                         

Delivery style: Informal, this is so we can connect with the target audience as they would stereotypically not enjoy a Formal style.

Resources required

Human: Andrey Yushin, William Kirby & William Taher.

Equipment: 3x Headphones, 3x voice recorders, recording studio and a computer with editing software.

Location: UTC Sheffield.

time (recording and editing): Up to 10 hours editing a week, recording and uploading will all be done in this time. It will be in perfect uploading condition, in a way everyone who is involved is happy with the AMP.

Additional information

(Include schedule / structure)

Content of show (items, features and articles): It will consist of news articles that we can explore in a comedic way, and leave no one offended.

Examples of questions and issues to be raised for interviews: There will be few specific questions, just topic starters to get the guests talking. Example of questions are;

What do you think of (the news article)

Styles of music to be used: We will use local bands of all genres.

Will your program use advertising to make a profit?    Yes  ✔️ No   Maybe

Additional Details:  It is only advertising to help fund the music and other licenses we will need. 

Profits/Costs

Costs: Our cost are mainly made up from our PRS licence, £240 (including tax.) per annual. With additional 15p per song, we play 2 songs per show this means we will have to pay £31.20. As we are not paying for the equipment as we already have it or it wont cost us to borrow. This will be the maximum as we wont alway play copyrighted music as we will promote local bands. Our total costs are £271.20 per annual.

Revenue: We will have two 30 second advert per week this means we will have 104 advertisements per year at £27 per ad, this means will make £2,808 per annual. 

Profit: 

£2,808 - £31.20 = £2776.8

We don't pay tax on this as our overall gross is under £10,00

As we are non-profit organisations our money will got to the community and making the show better.