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A day in the life of….a radio producer
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Who cares what a radio producer thinks?
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• Provide valuable insights and inform a stronger media strategy
• More confident, knowledgeable and trustworthy
• Increase your likelihood of clients wanting to work with us again
Who cares about producers?
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Okay, but why should I listen to you?
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What does a radio producers day look like?
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Pre-Programme
LBC & BBC Breakfast
Pre-programme
• Producer begins at 5am for a 7am breakfast show
• First thing: Read programme brief
Show is set up from 2pm the day before
Using embargoed stories, forward planner
There will be gaps in the schedule for new stories
• Newspapers (Pick the titles that your target audience reads)
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How they get their news?
• Social media• Who the producers/presenters are following to understand them• What lists have they created?
• Wires
• GNS
• PA (Breaking news)
• Press releases
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Picking a story
•Six to eight stories for a three hour programme
•Not just about being newsworthy it's about creating a conversation
•News may just go in the bulletin
•Journalists will go on their gut instinct of “what works”
•First question: who cares?
•Second question: what is my question to the audience?
•Third question: who to talk on the topic?
•Final question: will my presenter like the story?
•More than any other media, radio wants a conversation starter
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Lining up the programme
• Pitch the stories to your presenter
• Fact sheets, top lines and guests
• Local, target audience focus
• Conversation questions for the audience
• Hard-hitting stories at the top of the hour
• Bottom of the hour – feature stories, which could be dropped
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What does their day look like?
5am – Show prep6am – Presenter comes in7am – Show is live
– Watching for breaking news– Checking and prepping guests– Helping presenter through interviews
10am – Show is off air & debrief10am – Editorial meeting & begin planning for next day11am – The pitching sweet spot!12pm – Go home
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Great. It’s 11am. Now what?
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How to be heard
• Who cares?• The headline test• How to cut through the volume?
• Hundreds of emails• Keep email subject hyper-local
• Know the programme:• What stories does a presenter usually like to cover?• What facts or case studies does a producer like to know?
• They are looking for six stories across a programme
• They will tell a story through your spox, case studies or an outside expert
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Planning
• One producer in charge of forward planning
• Daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly forward planner shared at the
beginning of each month
• They want the headline and potential spokespeople
• Reporters and producers are assigned a week or day in advance
• Breakfast planner will start around 2pm on the day before (including
Sunday)
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Securing a story
• New assets to help tell a story
• Sound clips
• Fact sheets
• Interesting top lines
• Spokespeople
• Credible
• Quirky but authoritative, what they can’t get on-air
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Recap
•Try and get as much relevant information to producers a few weeks
in advance to increase chances of your client’s story being covered
•Make sure your advisory meets the what's the headline and who
cares test? If not, then re-work it
•If you can’t get through the door, go through the windows (keep
giving them new assets)
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Any questions?