Newscast Script Example

A newscast scriptLike any other type of script, it is a document or text where the content of a newscast is exposed and detailed, whether radio or television in nature. Therefore, it stipulates the parameters on which the program will be based, which avoids unforeseen events, problems or thematic gaps that affect the normal development of the newscast. A script must specify the interventions of each of the participants, as well as what they will say or the content of their sections. Likewise, some technical specifications that occur during the broadcast are made clear as commercial breaks.

Although a script can be general, it is usually important that it be as precise as possible since the organization of the newscast depends on it. The non-existence or bad writing of a newscast script can trigger serious problems for the participants of the same since they will not have the tools or the knowledge about how the broadcast is going to unfold or what they should say once they are on the air.

Newscast script example:

MORNING NEWS SCRIPT

Community Radio 99.4 FM

Fade in - Curtain (1 min.)

RODRIGO GARCÍA: Hello, how are you, a very good day. This is the morning newscast of Radio Comunitaria 99.4 broadcasting from Mexico City. Rodrigo García greets you.

CARMEN SÁNCHEZ: Good morning. Today is Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Welcome to the news, Carmen Sánchez greets you. We begin.

Curtain (30 sec.)

CARMEN SÁNCHEZ: We begin with the news that has garnered attention in recent days. The United States government has reported that it has identified a suspected suspect in the terrorist attacks perpetrated last Monday during the Boston marathon. The president of that nation, Barack Obama, announced that the FBI will continue with the investigations and that in the next few days the person who probably had some participation in these could be arrested acts.

RODRIGO GARCÍA: In more international news, Venezuelan President-elect Nicolás Maduro announced that he will not give in to opposition protests, which caused the death of seven people. Currently, the South American country is going through a serious political crisis as a result of the tight elections that gave Maduro the winner, with a narrow margin of difference.

Cut music / Voice-over (30 sec.)

commercial break

CARMEN SÁNCHEZ: We are going to a commercial cut. What you hear now is the new album by British band Depeche Mode entitled Delta Machine. Continue with us. In a moment we return.

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