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APPENDICES

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, LEEDS U.K

 BROADCASTING DISSERTATION

QUESTIONNAIRE

Group A

1. What type of station is this?
2. What gives you the bulk of your revenue?
3. Is it very lucrative; the broadcasting business?
4. Where are your programmes made?
5. What percentage of your programmes are rebroadcasts?
6. Any particular reason?
7. Which is more expensive to acquire, local or foreign programmes?
8. Any sponsorship?
9. Do advertisements and sponsors influence your programmes?
10. Any social functions?
11. How big is your organisation?
12. How big is your News department?
13. Is News an important part of your broadcast output?
14. Do you see News as a compulsory part of a broadcasting schedule?
15. Is there any government intervention in your News output?
16. How reliant are you on government press releases?
17. How much of your output is original, investigated and ascertained by your own reporters?
18. In what language is the bulk of your News broadcast?
19. Any particular reason?
20. Have you identified your audience?
21. Would you say this station is subject to government control?

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, LEEDS U.K

NEWS BROADCASTING DISSERTATION

QUESTIONNAIRE

Group B

1. What will you say is your audience?
2. What is your target audience?
3. In planning programmes, do you take your audience into consideration?
4. Do you have any means of getting feedback?
5. Is language a factor?
6. What decisions inform your choice of language?
7. How much of your programming is National/International?
8. Any particular reasons for this?
9. What are your thoughts on local programmes?
10. Why has the length of News bulletins changed?
11. In you time here, would you say the station has undergone a noticeable change?
12. How do you see the future?
13. Do you use independent local productions?
14. What percentage of your News comes from local sources/international sources?
15.  Would you say investigative reporting is a big part of your news setup?
16. What percentage of your news comes from government releases?
17. What constraints do you face in news production?
18. To what extents are finances an issue in your coverage and reportage of News?
19. How motivated would you say you are as a department?
20. What essential training must one have to be a part of this department?
21. Where is most of your staff trained?
22. Does your department have a model?

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, LEEDS U.K

NEWS BROADCASTING DISSERTATION

QUESTIONNAIRE

Group C

1. Where were you trained?
2. Would you say the same is true of other producers?
3. What percentage of your output is in-house?
4. Are there any programmes you believe to be popular?
5. Do you know why?
6. Do you perform any social functions with your broadcasts? Are bulletins produced with this in mind?
7. Do you face financial constraints in news productions?
8. Are some programmes are subsidised so others will receive enough financially?
9. Who regulates content?
10. Is this a problem?
11. How much of your news content comes from governmental releases?
12. Would you say you are given free rein in News production?
13. How will you rate proper allocation of resource and efficiency in the News department?
14. Has the department changed much since you started work here?
15. How would you like to see the department organised?
16. What do you think about the amount of foreign content in News bulletins?
17. Why has the length of News bulletins changed?
18. Do you have all the equipment you believe you need?
19.  Would you say this station is subject to government control?
20. Who are your major News sources?
21. Do you have a choice?
22. Is there any mechanism for verifying news that you receive?
23. It is believed that in broadcasting news, stations generally reflect ideological leanings; would you say that is true of your station?
24. How do you prioritise your news?
25. Would say changes in global news broadcasting put pressure on your station to change as well?
26. How much of your news content is political?
27. How do you explain this?

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, LEEDS U.K

NEWS BROADCASTING DISSERTATION

QUESTIONNAIRE

Group D

1.      What is your role as regulators?

2.      Are you a member of an international organisation, is your charter international?

3.      Do you believe your regulations to be nation al centric?

4.      What is the means of enforcing these regulations?

5.      Would you say compliance is at an appreciable level?