Perceptions of Audience sheet

On this sheet we had to find out the stereotypical audiences of eight companies. These companies were The Sun Newspaper, The Times Newspaper, Nuts magazine, Radio Times magazine, Channel 4 News, Big Brother, Radio 1 and Radio 4. When someone says stereotypical audiences, I as a media student, look at how old the target audiences are for each one, what gender they would be/which gender the product is aimed at, where they'd be based (e.g. The Sun newspaper is based in London and will then attract mostly people from London but other places as well) and what their class would be; for example The Times newspaper would be aimed at the upper class or working class. It's not something people from Manchester or Hyde would take interest in for the simple fact that it's quite serious newspaper.

For each company we researched what their target audience was/is and what gender they were aiming the product at. One company I researched was Nuts magazine and that was quite clearly aimed at males in their fifteens onwards but there could have also been some females that looked/read the magazine as well as males. However, the stereotypical audiences of Nuts magazine would be males because of course, the magazine has a lot of female body parts and some bikes with females on it.