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The online and schools' offering were also expanded. In the early 00s Newsround was the most watched programme for children in the UK, and also had the highest AI score (a measure of programme engagement and appreciation) of all CBBC programmes. Following the 9/11 attacks, Newsround launched a guide to help children who were worried by news events.
4 April – The first edition of Newsround is broadcast, presented by John Craven. 29 December – The final edition of BBC2's news programme Newsroom is broadcast. It is replaced by a five-minute news summary. 1973. 2 January – A new late evening extended news bulletin News Extra begins broadcasting on BBC2. 1974
Sportsround is a spin-off from CBBC children's news programme Newsround. The sports magazine show was broadcast weekly, between 2005 and 2010, on Friday evenings at 6:30pm on CBBC Channel and on Saturday mornings on BBC Two at 7.25am. It was first shown on BBC One on 10th September 2005 at 11.45am.
YSTV from its foundation in 1967 had a twice-weekly news show aimed at students, named Newsround, that pre-dated the BBC show of the same name [9] In 2006, An animation called Badgered by Sharon Colman who was a student at the National Film and Television School [10] was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [11] [12]
In addition to his work at Newsround, in 2015 Dougan became a regular entertainment presenter for the Number One Show on BBC Radio 1, [17] and was billed on the BBC's core presenting team for Glastonbury Festival 2016. [18] In April 2022, he chose to step away from Newsround and became a freelance presenter and journalist.
CBBC is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC.It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 to 12.
He joined the BBC staff in Newcastle upon Tyne to work on local radio and television, before moving to the BBC in Bristol in 1970. [5] From 1972 until 1989, Craven was the eponymous host of a regular children's news programme, Newsround, originally called John Craven's Newsround.
13 January – Following on from the success of Yesterday in the Commons, United Artists Cable launches a full time channel providing live and recorded coverage of the British Parliament called The Parliamentary Channel. [15] [14] February – TV-am closes its in-house news service and contracts out news bulletins to Sky News. This is the first ...