First ever book on radio & television content production to be launched

One of Ghana’s finest radio and television content producers and trained media practitioners, Timothy Antwi-Otoo, is set to launch the first ever book on TV and Radio production.

The book titled ‘Basic Broadcast Production Principles’, is expected to be launched on Friday, October 4, 2024.

The author is launching the book after extensive research, which has revealed that books or manuals on production for radio and television do not exist as they do in other sectors such as medicine, law, finance, accounting, among others.

According to the author, the majority of producers go through a series of steps, techniques, and skills to bring radio and television programs to life; however, they accomplish this duty without any written guidance and normally rely on the experience of senior colleagues, who also mostly acquired those skills on the job.

 

 

But the book will help close that gap and offer readers an opportunity to understand the basic principles of production.
Radio owners, the author with over two decades of practice, argued usually employ people as producers and require them to produce programmes with excellence without necessarily doing a background check on their competence and experience, which explains why some producers perform woefully in their early stages on the job, adding that once the producer fails, the show flops since every programme is owned by the producer.

It is in this regard that the book has come in handy and at a crucial time when Ghanaians have raised several concerns over the quality of some radio and television programmes and the breach of ethical standards.

The book explains the basic principles for radio and television production in a way even an amateur can easily understand and apply.

The book, according to the author, “will serve as a good companion for both practitioners and student journalists. Readers of the book will find it relevant and practical in their fields of endeavour.”

The launch will be held at the Christ the King Hall, opposite the Jubilee House, on October 5, 2024. The chairman for the launch is Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong.

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