Unit: 3.2 Market research Codes and Conventions BBC 5 Live

Fighting Talk

Genre
The main genre of Fighting Talk is Special Interest this is due to the topics that are discussed during the Podcast and the radio station it is broadcasted on, as well as Discussion and Educational. Fighting talk is a sports based quiz show where two teams compete for points due to their knowledge of the past weeks sporting news and their comedic answers and general whit. Radio 5 Live is the BBC's sporting channel where live commentary is broadcasted as well as shows revolving around the genre of sport. As Fighting Talk is a quiz show, discussion plays a large part of the broadcast where with each question asked each guest has time to give their option. this is where I think the educational genre fits in to the show, as each topic is explained in a more basic format compared to the news papers, this allows a larger demographic to understand the news which is going on in their selected sport.    

Format
The format of Fighting Talk is predominately presenter lead as it follows a quiz show format, the presenter introduces asks the questions and ends each broadcast, where the guests only talk when answering a question, the audience which would listen to Fighting Talk are predominately male in the age range of around 20-60 as for the broad range of topics discussed and most don't people stick with same sport(s) for life. as for the occupation of the listener I would expect them to be an mid to well educated person with a respectable job grade c or above.

Code & Conventions 
Fighting Talk falls into a range of codes and conventions. Balance, subjectivity, opinion and bias. As fighting talk is a discussion based quiz show its inevitable each biased opinion of each guest will fall each side of the story giving a balanced view on each topic discussed.  As I just said to give a balanced discussion each side of the argument needs to be biased being one sided and sticking to it like the left and right wing in politics with being biased you are also opinionated, having one view on a topic and sticking to it.