Radio: pluralism and diversity
The podcast I will listen to is Stacy Dooley revisited where she looks back at the documentaries she has made with topics such as open adoption.
The average podcast length is around 45 minutes or less with special guests that were on her documentaries when they were made.
The audience for this show is the fans of the BBC documentaries that Stacey has done already because this podcast offers a behind the scenes feel to the show and along with more content of what happened to the people involved in the story to begin with.
The target audience more specifically is younger adults and adults because there are mature themes such as topics of a disturbing or sexual nature therefore it isn’t accessible to those under 15.
On the BBC i player app the series this podcast is based on is under the documentaries section and can only be watched o the pp because it is run by BBC three and they don’t have a live television channel anymore and have moved all online.
This show attracts its target audience by offering a way for the audience to interact with the podcast with social media links at the bottom of the app. The target audience is appealed to by having the main hot be someone they will all know already because they have watched the documentaries that Stacey has produced on BBC three.
Technology has made it easier for a cult and niche audience to be able to access the podcast because they are realised on the BBC sounds app with specific tags and headings similar to the documentary titles in order to allow audiences that watched the documentaries on BBC three. This podcast has a niche audience because its not something a first time podcaster can just listen to because they wont understand the guests or the referencing to specific issues.
One niche audience that the show can target is specific people who have been through similar events such as people who themselves have experienced open adoption or the various other topics discussed on the podcast.
This show is produced by the BBC and Stacey Dooley and distributed on the BBC sounds app. This allows the sessions to be accessed by any person with a BBC account.
This product was made by the BBC not specifically for profit because the BBC is paid for by taxes so they don’t need to have advertising or anything, they can just make shows that they feel reflect the audience that pay for the service. So by having these kinds of documentaries even really niche audiences can be targeted through the use of identity which appears to the code of the BBC.
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