Key Vocabulary List. TV or radio programme
TV or radio programme broadcast, political / educational / news broadcast documentary, docudrama, infotainment, news bulletin, current affairs programmes, running commentary show, quiz show, talk / chat show, game show, variety show sports programmes, music programmes, weather forecast, news coverage soap opera, sitcom clip, serial, episode commercial break / spot / slot, commercials for (food) to appear at quarter-hour periods a TV crew: a reporter, a correspondent, a television journalist, a newsreader / TV presenter, an anchor, an anchorwoman, a news gatherer, a camera operator, a disk jockey (DJ) to present a programme, to run a programme, locally-run programme to host a programme / a show, a programme host to have state subsidy to be financed through advertising / by TV licence fees / by annual charge on viewers / by compulsory annual payments / by trading activities / by selling price to a reader to sponsor programmes to be on (the) air, to go on (the) air to broadcast nationwide to be biased / unbiased, to be impartial, impartiality to present news efficiently, interestingly and without bias; to have a (high) reputation for objectivity to give a false impression of smth hype, to be hyped up by the media fair / balanced reporting to develop a theme in depth to set forth one’s arguments to have influence on the content of the programmes viewing time, viewers, viewing habits to highlight, to be in the spotlight to reflect the cultural mix of society to cater for minority tastes popular viewing time/ hours, prime-time/ peak-time/ slot prime-time programmes ratings, ratings battles/ ratings wars, ratings lists, to head the ratings lists to be broadcast live, to do smth live, a live broadcast, a live interview to be recorded for broadcast later footage of an event, dramatic footage to be free from state control to tune in, to receive/ pick up broadcasts, to switch to a channel vox-pop interview, talking heads photogenic/ telegenic privacy, invasion of privacy, breach of privacy intrusive reporting paparazzo/ paparazzi pl doorstepping bug, bugging to make notes in shorthand Text A
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