Between 7am and 5pm we offer a local news service, drawn from our own output, BBC Cambridgeshire and press releases that are sent into the station.
At 7.30, 8.30 and 9.30 (On Saturdays), 4.30 and 5.30 we present the news headlines and sport.
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We’ll now be separating our bulletins from Sky with a Short Ident NEWS STAB.
The newsreader will play NEWS STAB and Start the Bulletin
“Cambridge Radio News I’m … [Name]”
A local bulletin will typically have 3 stories, including at least one piece of audio, and occasionally a sports headline. For example, when Cambridge United have played the previous evening.
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The newsreader will end the bulletin. “That’s the latest. There’s more at Cambridge.Radio [Cambridge-Dot-Radio].”
They will then read the weather. There’s no longer an outro to the weather Ident. The presenter will follow it, with a thank you to the newsreader, and/or their ID.
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Headlines
This is where we all seem to wander off and do our own thing. We have a new-style Ident for the Headlines, which includes the station information. It’s a regular Ident without a bed.
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The presenter will go up to the headlines with a look ahead to what’s coming up or a reminder of what’s on our podcasts.
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The newsreader [I realise this is invariably one and the same person!] will then play the headlines cart and begin the bulletin with the IRN/Sky script. We can now use the Sky Intro.
“The top stories at [Time]” No need to say the names of the news reader.
Read the IRN script, deleting any sports stories and these will be included in the sport that follows.
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Then take two local stories from the main bulletin. Two sentences is normally sufficient to explain the story.
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End with the weather headline. This means the summary, not the entire forecast from the top of the hour. And the temperature.
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“Strong winds associated with Storm Darragh slowly easing on Monday. Highs of 6 degrees Celsius.”
Sports Stab
Then we move to the local sport.
Adjusting the IRN script that follows.
With the rest of this morning’s sport, here’s Lewis Mason.
[Take AUDIO
NUMBER: SP001
OUT WORDS: three seven
Duration: 00:02:12]
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After the bulletin thank of local sports editor, usually Daniel, and the IRN sports editor, conveniently that’s normally whoever has read the network bulletin!
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The presenter will then play their Named ID or a Ramp to talk about what’s coming up.
BBC Cambridgeshire Clips
Please Remember our arrangement with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Remember this applies to local stories only and just interviewees… not reporters. We can however use approximately 5 min pieces from their studio interviews.
Style/slug the clips BBC SUBJECT SPEAKER so
A story about a buses where we hear from Mayor Nik Johnson becomes
BBC BUSES JOHNSON
There are additional sources under the News Tab on the Chrome screen.
Also remember to search for ‘Cambridge’ on IRN NET Newsroom when compiling scripts.
