My Media Consumption

My media consumption

 

In a week, I don’t watch TV frequently. But when I do watch TV, it’s usually short programmes, now that I’m at college, I spend more time watching TV on demand than live TV.

I don’t read news papers, if I want to get some news, I mostly rely on news updates I get through Twitter’s BBC news accounts, and if the headlines contains something that I’m interested in, then I would usually read the story and find out more.

With radio being one of my biggest interests, not only in the case of leisure, but also as a future career, I listen to the radio every day. I listen to both live radio, and radio on demand. I also listen to podcasts of radio shows, so radio features a lot in my daily life, it could be news, music, sport or drama programmes, or even documentaries. I also like listening to entertainment and comedy programmes, such as the Scott Mills show on radio 1.

With magazines, most of magazines mainly these days include lots of images, so I don’t really read much magazines, however, I look at the websites of some magazines or magazine blogs to see what stories or other articles are on offer, however, this isn’t something that I do very often.

Films are the one part of media that I have the least interest in, I don’t watch many movies, and if I do, it’s not often. I never watch movies at the cinema, if I ever do watch a movies, I would rather watch it on a DVD at home, on my own or with other people.

Music, together with radio being one of my biggest interests, I would say features in my life even more often than radio. I listen to music when I do most things in my daily life. I listen to music every day for most of the day, music is a big part of my life, I listen to all genres of music, and like a bit of everything. I’m interested in discovering and listening to many different styles of music.

Another big part of my daily life, is surfing the internet, for talking with friends, news, tv and radio, or music, the internet is my main source of information and my leisure time.

I don’t watch the news, if I ever do, it’ll be on the radio, however, I much prefer to get news online, through social network like Twitter or Facebook mostly.

I only watch one soap and do my best to keep up with it, it’s the kind of programme that I’ll watch every day, but it’s not something that I’ll put the time aside for, if there’s something better to do, I’ll do that instead and catch up online.

          My favourite type of documentaries, are radio documentaries, mostly the issue covered in the documentary isn’t a problem, I’m interested in many things, and some documentaries even make me interested in things that I never was interested in doing or learning about before. I don’t really watch documentaries on TV, however sometimes I will give some documentaries a watch.

Despite the fact that I do like my comedy, TV or radio, sitcoms is something that I never really watched, and don’t really think I’ll watch soon, I don’t watch sitcoms at all.

With comedy shows, it really depends on many things, the people featuring in the show, what’s the show taking a mick out of, the presenter etc. There aren’t many comedy shows I watch on TV, more on radio.

Quiz and game shows is something that I watch a lot, on radio or on TV, I always love a good game or quiz show, I always learn something and have fun, some of my favourite games shows are the ones that feature celebrities, they are always funny.

There are many music programmes that I watch and listen to on radio, my interest in music is big, and I always love music programes about current and upcoming music, from any genre apart from classical. My music taste is very open, and I’m always interested in different styles of music, also, I love listening to other people’s opinions on music, on the Radio 1 Review show people giving their views on upcoming music, this is the show that I mainly listen to, and always love listening to it, just so I can get different points of view on the music that I like, and hear music that I may not usually choose to listen to, but which I might listen to more often in the future. Another music programme that I listen to every Sunday, without faile, is the official chart on Radio 1. I love my current music and I’m always interested in how it’s doing in terms of sales.

I don’t listen to many arts programmes, they are not something that I’m really interested in.

TV drama is not really something that I spend a lot of my time watching, the only TV drama I would really watch is Law and Order. However, I love my radio drama, and I listen to a lot of it on Radio 4, because they provide a wide range of plays covering many different issues, and the stories are always really interesting and enjoyable and keep you listening till the very end.

I love my football, and one sport programme that I love watching on TV is Final score, they give you lots of information the the currently played games, and the socres, also the league tables. Also Match Of The day, I like this show because of the sport discussions, and getting different views on the sporting action of the day. I also love listening to live commentary on radio 5 Live, mainly because the radio commentary is much more detailes than TV commentary.

If I do listen to the radio or watch TV, I do it on my own most of the time, however, I do like doing it with other people too, especially people who share the same interests. So that I can talk with them about what we’re watching and share opinions on what’s happening in the show. This gives me the opportunity to socialise and listen and watch what I like at the same time.

One programme I really love listening to on radio, the one that I’ll always make sure I’ll catch up with, via iPlayer or podcasts, is the Scott Mills show on radio 1. I love my current music, which is what they play on the show, I also live the entertainment chat that’s on the show, and always keeps me laughing away. I do also love the many ways that the listeners can get engaged with the show.

The one thing that I really don’t like listening to on radio, the one thing I always avoid, is cricket, many of my friends are fans of the sport, but for me, I just don’t understand anything about the sport, or it’s rules.

Regarding the views of RNC students or the public, everyone’s views are different and individual. I can’t really say if my views are typical, because eac view of each and every person is different and unique in their own way, so are my views.

I think that looking at the people I got to know at RNC, lost of my friends do like similar programmes to me, and watch and listen for similar amounts of time. In some ways, my media consumption is different from other RNC students, but then similar to habits of other students. I pay more attention to current music shows on radio than some of my friends at RNC, but like other students I know, I listen to radio 4, which again, not every student here does. As for the amount of time listening or watching, many students mostly socialise with each other, so there’s not much time for media, however, some students to find some time for it, so do I, that’s also why I think that in some ways my media consumption is similar to other students at RNC.