Journalists, announcers and other professionals can work on a radio program.
Program , which comes from the Latin word programma , is a term with various uses. When we refer to a radio program , we are referring to a series of broadcasts that are transmitted via radio with a certain periodicity (every day, once a week, etc.).
These broadcasts are identified by a title and share certain themes. This means that each program deals with more or less pre-established issues, which implies a kind of pact with the listener.
Radio program example
A fictitious example of a radio program could be one that is broadcast on an AM ( Amplitude Modulated ) station from Monday to Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and is dedicated to football . In the program, baptized "Passion for football" , interviews are carried out with footballers and coaches, matches are analyzed and news about this sport is presented. A person interested in football, therefore, knows that, if they tune in to the radio in question at the aforementioned time, they will find a broadcast dedicated to their favorite sport.
Various components can be recognized within a radio program. Generally, each broadcast is segmented into blocks , which are thematic units separated from each other by advertisements . These advertisements allow them to obtain income, since companies pay to broadcast their advertisements and thus disseminate their proposals among the program's listeners.
Many people choose to listen to radio programs on their car stereo.
Journalistic genres
It is also important to know that there are many journalistic genres that find the perfect space to be carried out on the radio. Specifically, among the most common in this media and its respective programs are the interview, the chronicle, the gathering or the editorial. However, we must not forget that other genres that fall outside of journalism also have a place, such as music broadcasting, as happens in the so-called "radio formulas", or radio soap operas.
Radio programs can be made by a variable number of announcers , entertainers , journalists and other professionals. A technical operator will be in charge of getting the program to air, managing the device that makes the broadcast possible.
"The War of the Worlds", Welles' revolutionary radio program
One of the most unique anecdotes in history has to do with a radio program, in which the famous filmmaker Orson Welles participated. The events took place on October 30, 1938 when this director decided to adapt the science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds" by HG Wells for radio.
As if it were news, he wrote the script for a radio program, during which he warned on several occasions that it was not real but a literary adaptation. However, there were listeners who did not hear these nuances and experienced situations of real panic when they heard that meteorites were falling in certain parts of the United States and even that the arrival of extraterrestrials from Mars was taking place.
Welles and his assistants represented the script perfectly, so many people believed it. And the same thing happened years later when, on several occasions and in different parts of the world, they decided to pay tribute by making the same "joke."