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Rather than concentrate on one talkback radio program I decided to concentrate on one host: Bob Francis. The reason I chose to do this is that over the past few years I have had the (mis)fortune of listening to Bob at my parents’ house and have also been part of various political campaigns that have involved calling talkback radio stations to discuss issues that are opposed to Bob’s viewpoint. Bob Francis is a textbook talkback show presenter, with a “persona aimed at producing entertaining radio”, “a provocative stance. ... The construction of talkback hosts as “men of the people” (Potts, 129) is clearly read, “men of (some) of the people. ...
The other important strategy used in talkback radio that many listeners are possibly unaware of is there is a 7 second delay on calls. ... Claims that talkback radio are “democracy in action” or that “talkback allows all members of the community a chance to express themselves, no matter how oppositional to the mainstream their views may be” are simply not true. ... ”
Put simply, the radio station is a commercial one therefore they have to keep their advertisers happy. ...
Talk back radio hosts have had an interesting couple of years in Australia in regard to any commercial allegiances they might have. ... The problem lied within not disclosing this fact to his radio station 2UE or his listeners. Conflicts of interest seem to be obvious on talk back radio, however often they are presented in a way that is so obvious, just like an advert, that I wonder if the public classifies them as an advert even though it seems a part of the show. At no time have I ever heard a talk back radio announcer declare that they are receiving money to promote a business, they just seem to do it.
Approximate Word count = 1461
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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