Read the broadcast script below. While reading the script, analyze the author’s broadcast script utilizing “the rules of broadcast writing” elements: conversational tone, active voice, today language, phonetic spelling (if necessary), hyphenated words, punctuation and abbreviations. Once the student analysis is complete, then the student will post effective and ineffective techniques used by the author in the article.
Here’s a WISC-TV story about a new director for the county’s 9-1-1 center:
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SUPPORTING HIS STAFF AS THEY MOVE FOWARD…. IS THE TOP PRIORITY FOR DANE COUNTY’S NEW 9-1-1 DIRECTOR.
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*cg n2 NEW 911 DIRECTOR
Begins Duties, City-Co Bldg.
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FORMER MINNEAPOLIS 9-1-1 CHIEF JOHN DEJUNG (DE-YOUNG) OFFICIALLY STARTED HIS 120-THOUSAND DOLLAR A YEAR JOB TODAY.
HE TAKES OVER FOR JOE NORWICK, WHO RESIGNED LAST YEAR AFTER THE PUBLIC LEARNED 9-1-1 MISHANDLED A CALL FROM MURDER VICTIM BRITTANY ZIMMERMANN.
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SINCE THEN, STAFF HAS BEEN ADDED AND NEW TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS BEGUN….
DEJUNG SAYS HE’S IMPRESSED, AND A LITTLE OVERWHELMED….
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*cg n2 JOHN DEJUNG
Dane Co. 911 Center Dir.
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( JOHN DEJUNG/ 911 DIR/DANE COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY COMM’S/ it it feels good to be on the payroll now and im feeling like as I mentioned before — kinda of drinking from a fire hose really fast … trying to take it all in.)
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OUT Q=take it all in.
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THAT SAID, DEJUNG SAYS HE’S CONFIDENT HE CAN GUIDE KEY UPGRADES TO THE CENTER, LIKE A NEW COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH SYSTEM…. A MULTI-YEAR EFFORT.
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