2. Developing and Pitching
Programmes
You’ll be asked to work together to develop and
pitch a running order for your programme
Key skill in creative industries
At some point you are going to have to sell
something to someone
3. From this lecture you’ll learn
How best to
formulate your
ideas
How best to
manage them
How best to
pitch them
4. Developing Ideas
Understand the station
Understand its audience
Understand the programme
Understand the slot
6. What do people want from each
time of day?
BREAKFAST DAYTIME
Fast Companionable
Punchy Lively in morning
Lively More relaxed in afternoon
Short Not too distracting
DRIVETIME EVENING AND NIGHT
Focused Dedicated listeners
Informative Focused on specialisms
Driven Gradually more relaxed into
Short Form night
Exciteable Informal and intimate
7. Managing Your Ideas
If you are serious about this
Keep a record
Even of bits of ideas
Pop them into your phone your cut
and paste into a folder
Writing it down helps you remember
Hang out with people who have ideas
Follow the news
Watch what others are doing
Be prepared to stick ideas together,
pop them in, alter them and then
spit them back out.
8. Developing your ideas
What will the
audience want?
What will the
producers want?
Has it been done
before?
What is its Unique
Selling Point?
9. Remember what you are selling
You are selling an
idea for a programme
Not someone else’s
music
Not a scene that you
really like
Not a political idea
Not a culture,
movement or
anything else
10. Formulating your ideas
Be very clear about
what it is
Think of its structure,
tone style and content
Work out who your
presenter
Consider the
practicalities of the
idea (like can you
actually make it)
11. Pitching your ideas
Sometimes you are asked to write a
proposal.
You need to be able to sell it in a
sentence
You’ve got to be able to make the person
you are selling it to really here the idea.
Explain why it works on the station and
who it would be for.
12. This is the tough part
You know I said you’ve got to be really clear
about your idea…
You’ve also got to be willing to change it at a
moment’s notice.
15. Feature for Breakfast
You areaproduction team
South Coast
Radio We want some regular slots – something to
give it character – something to make people
Age 15-30 remember the programme.
Something to make people talk about it at work
Pop/Dance later that day.
format
What is it going to be?
Each slot will be once per week.
Last 3-5 minutes
Can be set up the afternoon before.
Five groups
What is it going to be?