CHAPTER 4: DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.5. COMMUNITY RADIO NEWS
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presenters. Stations had for many years opted for male presenters for safety reasons. Mohodi attained a 100% male representation, Moutse attained 98% and Radio Turf attained 50%.
Figure 4. 12: Programme allocation (Male presenters)
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Mohodi recorded 85% female representation of female reporters/presenters allocated on the celebrity gossip beat. Moutse attained a record 99% while Radio Turf attained 94%.
Crime/Court Reporting
The crime/court beat at Mohodi FM was allocated to 45% female reporters/presenters, 51% female reporters/presenters at Moutse FM and 43% for Radio Turf FM.
Currency/Financial Reporting
Mohodi FM attained 50% female representation on the Currency/financial beat, Moutse 53% and Radio Turf FM 52% female representation on the same beat.
Education/Research Reporting
The Education/Research beat at Mohodi FM was allocated to 60% female presenters/reporters, 55% at Moutse FM and Radio Turf FM attained 61%
representation.
Gender/Gender Equality Reporting
The beat - Gender/Gender Equality attained an average 78% percentage points across the three radio stations. Mohodi attained 80% female allocation and Moutse FM attained a 70% while Radio Turf FM attained a record breaking 85%.
General News Reporting
In general all the newsroom staff should be able to cover and report news items daily – assigned or unassigned. This beat attained 60% female allocation at Mohodi FM, 56% at Moutse FM and a 58% at Radio Turf FM.
Health and Lifestyles Reporting
The Health and Lifestyle beat recorded 92% female allocation at Mohodi FM, 98% female allocation at Moutse FM and 95% female allocation at Radio Turf FM.
Investigative / in-Depth Reporting
The investigative/in Depth beat attained a 23% at Mohodi FM, 15%at Moutse FM and 7% at Radio Turf FM.
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Mohodi FM attained 50% female allocation in the Parliamentary beat Moutse attained 53% while Radio Turf FM attained 56%.
Religious reporting
The Religious beat recorded 59% for Mohodi FM, 36% for Moutse and 63%
for Radio Turf FM.
Science and Technology reporting
The Science and Technology beat showed 30% female allocation for Mohodi FM, 23% female allocation for Moutse FM and 13% female allocation for Radio Turf FM.
Sports Reporting
Figure (4.13) below shows that Mohodi FM attained 12% female allocation, 9% female allocation for Moutse FM and 16% female allocation for Radio Turf FM.
War and Crime Reporting
In the war and Crime beat Mohodi FM attained 53% female allocation, Moutse FM attained 25% and Radio FM attained 45% female allocation.
Figure 4. 13: News Beat (Female reporters)
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4.5.2. News Beats Allocation (male reporters/presenters)
Figure (4.14) below presents the allocation for different news beats assigned to male personnel in CR newsrooms. The discussion highlights that more soft beats were allocated to female reporters.
Agriculture
Male reporters/presenters accounted for 35% in terms of allocation at Mohodi FM, 40% at Moutse FM and 30% at Radio Turf FM.
Celebrity Gossip
In the celebrity/gossip reports Mohodi FM attained 15% male allocation, Moutse FM attained 1% while Radio Turf FM attained 6%.
Crime/Court Reporting
The crime/court beat attained 65% male allocation at Mohodi FM, 49% at Moutse and 57% at Radio Turf FM.
Currency/Financial Reporting
Mohodi FM attained 50% male allocation, Moutse attained 47% and Radio Turf FM attained 48%.
Education/Research Reporting
In the Educational/Research beat Mohodi FM attained 40% male allocation, Moutse attained 45% while Radio Turf attained 39%.
Gender/Gender Equality Reporting
The Gender/Gender Equality beat recorded 20% for Mohodi FM, 30% for Moutse FM and 15% for Radio Turf FM.
General News Reporting
In the General News beat Mohodi attained 40% male allocation, Moutse attained 44% and Radio Turf FM attained 42% as shown in Figure (4.6.2) below.
Health and Lifestyles Reporting
The Health and Lifestyles beat recorded 8% at Mohodi FM, a mere 2% at Moutse FM and 5% for Radio Turf FM.
Investigative / In-Depth Reporting
In the Investigative / In-Depth beat Mohodi FM attained 77% male allocation, Moutse FM attained 85% while Radio Turf FM attained 93%.
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The Parliamentary beat recorded 50% male allocation for Mohodi FM, 47% for Moutse FM and 44% for Radio Turf FM.
Religious reporting
Mohodi FM attained 50% male allocation in the religious beat, Moutse attained 64% while Radio Turf FM attained 37%.
Science and Technology reporting
In the Science and Technology beat Mohodi FM attained 70% male allocation, Moutse attained 77% and Radio Turf attained 87%.
Sports reporting
The Sports beat recorded 88% for Mohodi FM, 94% for Moutse FM and 84%
for Radio Turf FM.
War and Crime Reporting
The War and Crime beat recorded 47% for Mohodi FM, 75% for Moutse and 45% for Radio Turf FM.
Figure 4. 14: News Beat (Male reporters)
4.5.3. News Sources / Expert Views
Radio stations use members of the society to offer expert views on news and current affairs programmes. These members are normally professionals who are either active in their field of expertise or retired. In this section, the researcher was
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concerned with the gender of these experts used at the three CRs concerned. Table (4.2) below shows the beat and gender of the experts used.
News Beat Mohodi FM
Male(M)/Female(F)
Moutse FM
Male(M)/Female(F)
Radio Turf
Male(M)/Female(F)
Agriculture M M F
Crime/Court M M M
Financial markets M M M
Education F M F
Gender M M M
Health F F F
Sport M M M
Parliamentary M M M
Science and Technology
M M M
Research M M F
War and crisis M M M
Table 4. 2: Experts (gender) used in the news room
Table (4.2) above shows a superior use of male experts than female experts. Only 4 of 10 experts at Mohodi FM were female, Moutse has only 1 female expert out of 10 and Radio Turf FM had 4 female experts.