One of the most influential sub-genres in factual programming would be considered to be the News, which captures a large and varied target audience

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Mustefa Al-Saad  ALS11142962

Factual Programming

                                           

Factual programming takes up a large percentage of terrestrial and digital airtime in the . It could easily be considered the largest of the genres, and it has many sub-genres that make up for a popular airtime filler. One of the most influential sub-genres in  would be considered to be the News, which captures a large and varied target audience and holds all ‘mealtime’ slots for each day.

The news programmes have always been a very important part of the British society, and a lot of people take the information presented on these programmes as absolute fact. This is largely due to the way these programmes present themselves.

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The news readers are always dressed in a well presented way (the traditional English suit and tie), which gives the audience a sense of the presenter being a representative of truth and accuracy and gives him/her a place in authority. This is a very subtle technique to persuade the audience that the facts presented to them are being relayed in an appropriate manner.

Codes of news: in the beginning we have a dramatic music so that the audience could recognise that code which means it’s an important program. Also, we have the presentation in the beginning. The ...

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