Comparison of Traditional Radio Programs and Web Programs


Afternoon, evening and two articles introducing Vietnam, the editors of the Overseas Vietnamese Newspaper briefly edit and have the right to choose appropriate news and articles to arrange into the programs and then broadcast.

News from the Editorial Office is often edited from many different sources: reporters from the VOV5 System who write articles, reporters from other Systems of the Voice of Vietnam, resident reporters at home and abroad, Vietnam News Agency, newspapers, Vietnam Television, foreign radio and television stations. Based on the collected news, the editor edits it to be concise, brief and succinct to suit the overseas Vietnamese audience.

The selection of news and articles is done through the following steps:

- Select the most important news related to Vietnam.

- Select the news that is most suitable for the overseas Vietnamese audience, news related to the relationship between Vietnam and the countries that are the target of propaganda, then edit it to suit the audience while ensuring the core information provided.

- The editors of the Overseas Vietnamese Department also exploit from different sources news and articles suitable for the overseas Vietnamese audience.

In addition, the Overseas Vietnamese Department writes news and articles for its own audience.


Diagram 2.2:


VTV News Center


Editorial Office

National Foreign Broadcasting System


Press, contributor

Information input process of the radio program"For Vietnamese compatriots living far away from the Fatherland"



VOV5


Overseas Vietnamese


VOV6

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Comparison of Traditional Radio Programs and Web Programs


Diagram 2.3:

Sound control


Broadcast


Foreignization

Production process of the radio program "For Vietnamese compatriots living far away from the Fatherland"


Studio


Radio products


Overseas Vietnamese Room


Objectification


Press, CTV,

VOV News Center,

Reporter


Editorial Office

The radio program “For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland” has a duration of 60 minutes. Therefore, the editors of the Overseas Vietnamese Broadcasting Station have invested quite a lot of news and columns on the subject. The characteristic of radio is sound (sound of the scene, speeches, music, etc.) so the station has carried out many news with sound so that the program is not boring but on the contrary, more realistic and lively.

The radio program “For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland” is broadcast every day of the week. Therefore, each reporter and editor is assigned to edit a fixed radio program “For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland” during the week, and one editor edits two programs. The editor is responsible for exploiting and implementing journalistic works to complete the text and audio for the radio program. Creating radio works is the most important and key step in the radio production process. The writer must perform many steps such as: determining the topic and theme; collecting and processing information and documents; outlining; writing the work; editing and self-editing his or her own work. After that, the reporter’s written article will be approved by the department and the leadership of the National External Radio System. The audio parts such as interviews and discussions are approved by the department.

To make the radio program interesting and attractive, the editor needs to prepare suitable folk music to highlight the articles, prepare songs suitable for the content of the article. Because the audio language in radio includes: Speech, sound, music. Music is one of the materials that make up works and radio programs. Background music, cut music has the purpose of ending the previous article, connecting the following article in a unified whole and attracting the attention of the audience. Songs or excerpts of poetry, excerpts

The plays and operas are suitable for the structure to illustrate the article in the program "Literary magazine for Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland" .

After collecting suitable music and songs, the editor proceeds to record at the studio of the Voice of Vietnam. The radio program "For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland" is mainly carried out according to the pre-recording process at the recording department (Audio Center, Voice of Vietnam). Pre-recording has the advantage of not causing errors on the air, however, the time for updating news of some programs is limited. Moreover, pre-recording programs also somewhat stiffens the presentation style compared to the more lively style of live radio programs.

The radio program “For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland” is produced in the Magazine format, with a host throughout the program. The news and articles are presented by the announcers of the Voice of Vietnam. The program “Literary magazine for Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland” has very high requirements for the voice due to its characteristics. Therefore, the editor needs to choose a suitable announcer voice for the article.

The 60-minute program, after being completely recorded, will be sent to the Voice of Vietnam's broadcasting room. From here, the program will be broadcast by broadcasting technicians at the program's fixed time, which is 22:00 (Vietnam time) the previous day and rebroadcast at 10:00 the next day (Vietnam time).

2.4.2. Process of producing programs broadcast on the Internet

- Regarding news: The radio program "For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland" broadcast on the radio has a duration of about 15-16 minutes for news. Every day, reporters of the Overseas Vietnamese Department are responsible for editing news about political, economic, cultural, social issues and news about overseas Vietnamese posted on the Internet, about 30-40 news/day. All news have illustrative photos and related information.

Domestic news is collected from the Editorial Office of VOV5. Depending on the content, the news is classified into appropriate categories such as: Politics, Culture - society - life, Economy, East Sea Profile.

News about overseas Vietnamese in countries around the world is written by program reporters or VOV correspondents abroad; sent by collaborators living and working in countries with a large number of overseas Vietnamese; or collected from the website vov.vn and other websites with the "Overseas Vietnamese" section. These overseas Vietnamese news are posted mainly in the "Vietnamese People Around the World" section.

- About articles for categories:

The categories on the Vietnamese page of vovworld.vn are very diverse. Most of the categories of the radio program posted on the website retain their original names. Only a few categories have had their names changed to suit online newspapers. For example, in Table 2.2:

Table 2.2: Comparison of categories in traditional radio programs and programs posted on electronic information pages



STT

Feature in radio program

Internet Category

1

Political news/ International news

Comment

2

You need to know

Legal policy

3

Our guests

Guest of VOV

4

Hometown language for expatriates

Teach Vietnamese

5

Discussion

Forum

Articles written by reporters of Voice of Vietnam and posted on the website include text, audio files and illustrations. After posting the content of the article in text and finding illustrations, the editor will cut and extract the audio part of the article that has been recorded and broadcast in the radio program "For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland" of Voice of Vietnam and then post it online, with an icon marked as an audio file. The audio capacity of each article is about 5-7 minutes. Thus, the public can simultaneously read the content of the text and listen to the audio like on the radio.

- About separate audio:


The audio files of the columns “Guest of the Week”, “Homeland Melody”, “Teaching Vietnamese”, “Your Health”, “Legal Policy” are all uploaded to the Internet. There are sections such as: “Homeland Melody” or large talk shows of about 20-23 minutes in length that are still compressed and posted online in their entirety.

- About the video:


With TV news, 1-2 news items are posted per month. Each TV news item is usually an event, a short story about a specific issue in society, lasting from 3-5 minutes. TV news items are mainly sourced from VOV TV channel (abbreviated as VOVTV).

For the video section, two videos are posted each month. These videos revolve around topics introducing the beautiful scenery of the homeland, the country, and some activities related to Vietnamese people abroad, with a capacity of 5 - 6 minutes. The video files are all taken from VOV's TV channel.

Chart 2.2: Statistics of the number of videos on the Vietnamese website on vovworld.vn from October 2015 to April 2016

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8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

TV news

Video clip

Chinh Kieu Economic Society

cell therapy

Culture


In fact, the reporters of the radio program “For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland” are not proficient in television news and video because the reporters are still mainly specialized in radio. The core of the program is radio, the voice.

- About photo reportage:

Photo reports, along with television news and videos, are two items that are not included in the radio program “For Vietnamese compatriots living far from the Fatherland” broadcast to listeners but only posted on the website vovworld.vn. However, the reporters of the program still try to do it. Photo reports are posted once a week on Saturday, can be done by reporters, can be sourced from vov.vn or some other websites.

Chapter 2 Summary

In chapter 2, the author introduced the structure, content, form and production process of the radio program "For Vietnamese compatriots far from the Fatherland" of the Voice of Vietnam. Basically, this is a comprehensive program with a stable structure. The radio program " For Vietnamese compatriots far from the Fatherland" is the only Vietnamese radio program currently broadcast abroad in Vietnam. This is a very unique radio program. The uniqueness is shown first of all in that,

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