ABSTRACT
The objectives of the study were to examine the effect of news commercialization on the public.
A case study of the federal radio corporation of Nigeria to achieve the aim the research studied a sample size of 200 respondents chosen from the population of Enugu metropolis.
Furthermore, the survey research method was adopted assisted by oral interview in order to elicit data from respondent the impersonal from of survey the use of questionnaire was employed.
Five hypotheses were formulated for the sturdy. The simple percentage and use frequency tables were used to present and analyses data. The five hypotheses received statistical support and was uphold.
Some interesting revelation were made of them were that most of the audiences do not know that news on invites are paid for there are no definite or common firm to determine commercial stations in the different national station of the FRCN.
What is commercial news in Enugu may not be in Lagos. The researcher recommended respect for the supremacy of he audience and commitment to excellent as the panacea specially the FRNC.