Newsround
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 The Newsround logo (2006-October 2008) |
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| Format | Children's news magazine |
| Created by | Edward Barnes & John Craven |
| Presented by | Sonali Shah Ore Oduba (Main presenters) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Editor(s) | Owenna Griffiths |
| Running time | 5 - 15 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One BBC Two CBBC Channel |
| Original run | 4 April 1972 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | BBC Television Children's Newsreel |
| Related shows | Newsround Specials Sportsround Ffeil |
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| Official website | |
Newsround (originally called John Craven's Newsround, before the departure of Craven) is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children. Initially commissioned as a short series by BBC Children's Department, who held editorial control, its facilities are provided by BBC News. The programme is aimed at 6 to 16-year-olds.
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[edit] History
Originally known as John Craven's Newsround, it was mostly presented by John Craven between 4 April 1972 and 22 June 1989. Originally, stand-in presenters came from main BBC News bulletins, including Richard Whitmore. By the 1980s, the programme had developed its own presentation team including Roger Finn and Helen Rollason with Craven in the dual role of chief presenter and programme editor.
Shortly before Craven's departure, the show was renamed Newsround, and was now anchored by a rotating team of presenters. Past presenters have included David Bull, Juliet Morris, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Julie Etchingham, Chris Rogers, Kate Sanderson, Matthew Price, and Becky Jago. Regular reporters on the programme, who have also presented it, include Paul McDowell, Paul Welsh, Lizo Mzimba and Terry Baddoo.
The distinctive opening theme used for the first fifteen years of the programme was not composed especially for it, but is instead the opening eight bars of a 1968 cover of Johnny One Note by Ted Heath and his Music. The closing sting used the last couple of bars of New Worlds by John Baker, recorded by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Newsround was the first British television programme to break the news of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986. As the event was shown during the opening titles, it is often erroneously stated that the tragedy happened live on air, but it in fact happened about fifteen minutes earlier. This edition was presented by Roger Finn, who had only recently joined the programme.
The programme was also first in Britain to report an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in Vatican City in 1981 and provided the first reports from the Windsor Castle fire of November 1992.
In February 2002, Newsround expanded from a sole ten-minute programme on weeknights to through-the-day bulletins seven days a week to tie-in with the launch of the CBBC Channel. In 2009, a small bureau for the programme was opened at the BBC's Manchester studios. Newsround, along with the rest of the BBC Children's Department, is expected to move to the new mediacity:uk development at Salford Quays by 2011.
[edit] On air
On weekdays, a two-minute bulletin airs at the start of the CBBC Channel's transmission at 7am. One-minute bulletins are broadcast on BBC Two at 7:25am. Five-minute bulletins air on the CBBC Channel at 8:25am & 6:25pm. Recently, Newsround introduced a number of short 60 second bulletins in addition to the other digital updates, shown at 3.25pm, 4.25pm and 5.45pm on the CBBC Channel.
The main ten-minute edition of Newsround airs on BBC One at 5:05pm.
Bulletins are also broadcast on the CBBC Channel during the morning on weekend.
[edit] Presenters and Reporters
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[edit] Newsround Specials
A variation on the regular format of Newsround is a series of short (typically 15-minute) documentary films, previously broadcast under the title Newsround Extra but now called "specials"[1], which have been a regular feature since the late 1970s. Two or three series of these documentaries air during the year, which replace the regular bulletins on one day of the week (for Extras it was usually Monday, although sometimes on Fridays, particularly during the 1980s).
Newsround Specials in recent years have included:
- The Wrong Trainers: a series of six animated films dealing with child poverty. The programme won the 2006 Royal Television Society award for best children's programme and the 2007 BAFTA children's award for best factual programme.
- The Worst Thing Ever: a dramatised documentary revolving around a child's experience of their parents' divorce.
- Newsround on Knives: an animated look at knife crime from a child's point of view.
- Gone: interviews with four bereaved children.
- Whose Side Are You On?: a drama on the role of bystanders in tackling bullying featuring Joe Calzaghe, Aston Merrygold, Patsy Palmer, George Sampson and Gemma Hunt.
- Caught in the Web: a dramatised documentary on Internet safety featuring case studies from real children, narrated by David Tennant.
- Living with Alcohol: a special about children's experiences with alcohol, presented by Barney Harwood.
A one-off Newsround Investigates documentary on arson in schools was broadcast in May 2006.
[edit] Newsround Showbiz
A light-hearted entertainment news round-up, originally known as Newsround Lite and introduced as part of the CBBC Channel's launch in February 2002. The latter version of the show was hosted by regular Newsround presenters/reporters Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes, Adam Fleming, Rachel Horne & Thalia Pellegrini and produced by Sinéad Rocks. The programme was axed in 2005.
[edit] Sportsround
Main Article: Sportsround
A Saturday morning sports magazine show introduced in September 2005, currently presented by Ore Oduba with reporters Des Clarke and Jon Franks.
[edit] Newsround Review of the Year
Until 2006, a half-hour review of the year special was produced for broadcast during the Christmas/New Year period.
[edit] Former presenters/reporters
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Newsround at bbc.co.uk/cbbc
- Newsround Message Boards at bbc.co.uk/cbbc
- BBC Editors' blog - Simon Goretzki
- BBC Editors' blog - former editor Sinéad Rocks
- BBC Editors' blog - former editor Tim Levell
- Newsround blog
- Newsround History
- British Film Institute Screen Online
- Newsround at the Internet Movie Database
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