THE IMPACT OF NEWS COMMENTARIES ON RADIO LISTENERS (A STUDY OF FEDERAL RADIO CORPORATION OF NIGERIA, ENUGU)

This study is to examine “The essence of radio commentaries and its impact on the listeners”. Starting with information that give insight into the historical back ground of news commentaries and the impact news commentaries creates to his listeners and its distinguishing features. It then drives into detailed exposition of relevant literature formation of research question and hypothesis. The research question was formulated to properly address the problem of radio commentary in relation to its listeners. Questionnaire were administered to the sampled respondents. The findings on the study revealed that news commentaries have less impact on some resident of the country as a result of low level of awareness to control the effect of illiteracy level of respondent and also further studies should be encouraged.