![]() ![]() The study revealed that despite being owned by the same station, sharing similar demographics, and being broadcast in the same geographic area, there were subtle but significant differences in the way hosts interacted with one another and callers. The significance of the findings were considered within a more critical discursive framework associated with media studies generally. These specific interactions were then analysed using Conversation Analysis and Membership Category Analysis. Within the framework of storytelling, areas of topical speech were identified that were worth more detailed analysis. Initial content analysis established basic patterns of interaction, and identified that storytelling was a feature of host/host and host/caller interaction. ![]() As a comparative case study, data was drawn from a month’s worth of recordings from breakfast programming on Sea and Hot FM, based in Rockhampton and Gladstone, Central Queensland. ![]() Conducting the study provided an opportunity to explore the notions of what it is to be ‘local’ for both regional hosts and callers, and consider how ‘matters of local significance’ may actually be raised in a regional environment. This research was considered important because the Australian Broadcasting Services Act 1992 refers extensively to ‘matters of local significance’ in relation to regional and rural broadcasting licences, but ‘local significance’ is defined very broadly. It explores the relationship between hosts, and hosts and callers, as accomplished through talk, and specifically examines the influence of that which is ‘local’ in this talk. This thesis examines radio content to consider how radio hosts on two regionally-based commercial breakfast programs, Sea FM and Hot FM (based in Central Queensland, Australia), interact with one another and their callers to foster a sense of community. ![]()
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