Tuesday 11 October 2011

Chart Shows.

A chart show is a radio show of all the latest and most popular music at that time.
In recent years chart shows being played on radio stations have changed dramatically. This is mainly due to the fact that technology has become so much more advanced. Lots of other things have changed the voice, music, and sound levels due to new technology break throughs.

After listening to a radio show from 1982, I noticed that the sound of the voice has changed, as I compared it to one done three years later in 1885, and there is a very distinctive change in class of the man speaking throughout the show. I believe this is because things started to become more casual and accepting around this time to make it and less reportive but more entertaining. In doing this the man in the later years also speaks alot clearer and slower which is much better as it doesn't sound so rushed and dramatic, so it has become more easy litening and audience engaging and understanding.

As everything had to be done in a certain way in the 1982 show they didn't have enough time to do the whole 40 top hits in 2 hours so they had to start at 32 and tell everyone what should be in its place. This was faulse advertising as they were meant to show the 40 top hits but they only let people listen to 32 of them.

People can relax more whilst listening to it in 1985 as it was a lot slower and flowed easier. In the 1980's alot of 'pop' music was used to introduce the DJ whereas in modern days we don't use that as much. Furthermore we now tend to blend the music into our speech which means the whole show runs smoother and is alot more soothing to listen too. We only managed to do that now because the extent that technology has improved in on live editing and fast editing of music and sound.

The audience of these types of shows have always been mainstream and still are to this day. In the 2000's and onwards we started to use more celebrity figures in the shows, this is to appeal more listeners, make it more interesting and to advertise them as artists. The main reason singers and dance groups weren't used in olden day shows is mainly because there weren't many celebrity figures as no-one saw the attraction in having celebrity role models. Nowadays everyone aspires to be like famous people like singer artists, dancers, film stars and many more whereas before people used to look up to family members.

 Not only have radio stations introduced celebrity endorsement but they have recently started to use visual media too, they upload it to the Internet because then it starts to hit a wider audience as there is so much more competition out there now like television shows. Radio shows in modern day have a much broader audiences as they are broadcasted through, television, radio, mobile phone apps, car radios and much more.

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