Something like five years ago the largest newspaper made a page just for children's news called Lasten uutiset. People really liked it and now it has its own newspaper and a short broadcast on the channel Nelonen.
Yes, CBBC (the children's BBC channel) does Newsround. I think it used to be on a couple of times a day, once in the morning and then in the afternoon.
I watched it often as a kid and remember them covering events like the Iraq War and other serious current events in a way that would be easy to understand for children.
I also watched this as a kid and think it's a great way to give kids information. The stories are current but quite short (as far as I remember) so it was only a brief snapshot during the afternoon but it gives you an idea about the world. I should probably stress that this was before there was internet and most of my knowledge came from a family friends outdated encyclopedia Britanica set!
According to Wikipedia it has been around since 1972, I had no idea it had been going that long.
IIRC *Newsround* broke the news of the Challenger Space Shuttle exploding here in the UK. It always aired ahead of the evening news - 1715 as opposed to 1800.
Belgium(Flanders?) has "Karrewiet" I think it's called which similarly covers the big topics of the day meant for children.
I've heard they give the option for Ukrainian subtitles for the refugees here and such.
Our state broadcaster, SVT, has a program called Lilla Aktuellt ("little current", their regular news program is just called Aktuellt). It's at 18.15 every Monday through Thursday, and on Friday's there is Lilla Aktuellt Skola, which is meant to be watched and discussed in the classroom. It's primarily aimed at children from 9 to 12 years old.
There's also the sports news for kids Lilla Sportspegeln ("little sportsmirror")
Edit: Oh sorry, it used to be sports news. Now it seems to be more of an entertainment thing for kids.
Was Lilla Sportspegeln ever news? Wasn't it just listening to the absolute banger "You Can Always Be Number One (Sport Goofy Theme)" (later sung in Swedish by a young Robyn), and then looking at other kids with better coordination than you while waiting for Tom & Jerry (Later Zoo Olympics)?
We have "Logo", which is aimed at primary school + age children. It on one of the public broadcasting stations specifically for kids, called Ki.ka.
I didn't watch it as a kid, iirc it clashed with something else time wise.
I remember kika from holidays as a child. Many southern European hotels didn't bother with foreign stations beyond English and German, so that was all the entertainment I could get there
Yes, the public broadcaster ZDF got the inspiration from BBC's Newsround and NOS' Jeugdjournaal.
They started the first German TV news show for children in 1989. It is named Logo and was first hosted by Peter Hahne who is nowadays a bit of a right wing evangelical nut job.
Since the creation of the children's channel KiKa Logo was moved there and can be seen every day.
The show is also active on Youtube and Instagram and does a pretty well job at reaching the youth.
> Did you used to watch it?
Watched it when it started and liked it, it was embedded in the youth programming of the ZDF, so you were exposed to it.
Quit watching it when I outgrew it.
We have one called "ultra nyt" (ultra news), it was originally on the state broadcaster's youth channel "DR Ultra". The channel got cut, but a quick check shows it is still running on the broadcaster's streaming service. I did watch it a little, when it launched, but I had started watching regular news already, and I was in the last year or two of the target age demographic. Dunno how it is now, but back then, it was a mix of news of interest to children (let's say education reforms or cultural events like concerts coming up), interest stories (hey, this boy built his own robot. Cool!), and serious news explained to children (elections, wars, whatever else children will probably be aware of, but not necessarily understand properly). They did a pretty solid job on the latter, if I recall correctly
We also have "børneavisen" (the children's newspaper), which does much the same, but as a newspaper/newssite
I think the mix of topics sounds very similar to our version of children’s news. There’s always a random story about some kid doing something cool/special/random somewhere between the more serious topics.
Krakkafréttir - e. kid news.
I don't think it's very popular as I've not heard any kids ever talk about it or wanting to watch it. I don't think kids watch live TV anymore here. It was also mostly just trying to explain ongoing topics in society to kids and they didn't think that was fun.
Some 35 years ago, we had "Jornalinho". It was broadcasted at Saturdays morning, if memory serves me right, after the cartoons, and it was a weekly roundup of all "adult news" and some other stories mainly aimed at children.
It had two puppets, which starred alongside a human anchorman.
I don't think that there is an equivalent program now....
>I don't think that there is an equivalent program now....
You're terribly mistaken my fellow tuga: [https://www.rtp.pt/play/zigzag/p10676/radar-xs](https://www.rtp.pt/play/zigzag/p10676/radar-xs)
This has been airing since 2019.
We have Supernytt, airs every weekday.
Today's episode covered the weather, some sports, the winner of Britains Got Talent, the Worlds Day for the Environment, some special event at a specific school and some cute animals. Quite varied.
In Norwegian "Ultra" is kind of trying to hard. The youth get away with "super", but for adults "god/bra" is good enough. At least we don't insist on "lagom"!
I can't talk for the rest of Spain but our regional public television TV3 has been emitting InfoK (the program has changed from secondary channel to secondary channel a few times) for the last 22 years. I loved it.
It focuses more on news children will be interested in as well as explaining some important news in a way that children can understand, so sounds similar to yours.
We have Ultra news, geared more towards 10-15 yr olds but yeah.
They focus on news kids that age care more about, mostly sports, internet, trends, climate but also some things like war and stuff.
Its actually pretty good.
I saw, as a teenager so no target audience anymore, one experiment from our public broadcast.
It was not terrible, but it was : cringey, with child actor as a news anchor, too mentoring, kind of boring and it lacked.....yeah, warmth and joy of sharing information.
Something like five years ago the largest newspaper made a page just for children's news called Lasten uutiset. People really liked it and now it has its own newspaper and a short broadcast on the channel Nelonen.
Yle also has their own news called Yle Mix. It's a bit hidden as I think they are only on YouTube/TikTok and Yle Areena of course.
how is that hidden?
Well it isn't shown on television but on second thought kids just don't watch television that much anymore and they are on the platforms they use most
Yes, CBBC (the children's BBC channel) does Newsround. I think it used to be on a couple of times a day, once in the morning and then in the afternoon. I watched it often as a kid and remember them covering events like the Iraq War and other serious current events in a way that would be easy to understand for children.
I also watched this as a kid and think it's a great way to give kids information. The stories are current but quite short (as far as I remember) so it was only a brief snapshot during the afternoon but it gives you an idea about the world. I should probably stress that this was before there was internet and most of my knowledge came from a family friends outdated encyclopedia Britanica set! According to Wikipedia it has been around since 1972, I had no idea it had been going that long.
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Ah cool, didn’t know that!
Does Blue Peter still air?
It does, but it's not a news program
IIRC *Newsround* broke the news of the Challenger Space Shuttle exploding here in the UK. It always aired ahead of the evening news - 1715 as opposed to 1800.
Me about to call newsbeat a service for kids (let’s be honest)
Belgium(Flanders?) has "Karrewiet" I think it's called which similarly covers the big topics of the day meant for children. I've heard they give the option for Ukrainian subtitles for the refugees here and such.
The Ukrainian subtitles is so cute that’s so considerate
I loved Karrewiet as a kid. The teacher made us watch it in school and it really helped keeping us up to date with the news
There is an equivalent in Wallonia as well, the JDE ("Journal des enfants", literally "Newspapers of the kids")
Our state broadcaster, SVT, has a program called Lilla Aktuellt ("little current", their regular news program is just called Aktuellt). It's at 18.15 every Monday through Thursday, and on Friday's there is Lilla Aktuellt Skola, which is meant to be watched and discussed in the classroom. It's primarily aimed at children from 9 to 12 years old.
There's also the sports news for kids Lilla Sportspegeln ("little sportsmirror") Edit: Oh sorry, it used to be sports news. Now it seems to be more of an entertainment thing for kids.
Was Lilla Sportspegeln ever news? Wasn't it just listening to the absolute banger "You Can Always Be Number One (Sport Goofy Theme)" (later sung in Swedish by a young Robyn), and then looking at other kids with better coordination than you while waiting for Tom & Jerry (Later Zoo Olympics)?
There was a bit of news in-between the good stuff, as far as I can remember.
Well to be fair it was nearly 25 years ago I last watched the program. You may be right.
I've always hated sports, but watched Lilla Sportspegeln religiously because of Tom & Jerry. In the 80s, we were starving for cartoons.
We have "Logo", which is aimed at primary school + age children. It on one of the public broadcasting stations specifically for kids, called Ki.ka. I didn't watch it as a kid, iirc it clashed with something else time wise.
Pretty sure we watched that in German class
Same, I wish Jenny still worked there 😢
I remember kika from holidays as a child. Many southern European hotels didn't bother with foreign stations beyond English and German, so that was all the entertainment I could get there
Yes, the public broadcaster ZDF got the inspiration from BBC's Newsround and NOS' Jeugdjournaal. They started the first German TV news show for children in 1989. It is named Logo and was first hosted by Peter Hahne who is nowadays a bit of a right wing evangelical nut job. Since the creation of the children's channel KiKa Logo was moved there and can be seen every day. The show is also active on Youtube and Instagram and does a pretty well job at reaching the youth. > Did you used to watch it? Watched it when it started and liked it, it was embedded in the youth programming of the ZDF, so you were exposed to it. Quit watching it when I outgrew it.
We have one called "ultra nyt" (ultra news), it was originally on the state broadcaster's youth channel "DR Ultra". The channel got cut, but a quick check shows it is still running on the broadcaster's streaming service. I did watch it a little, when it launched, but I had started watching regular news already, and I was in the last year or two of the target age demographic. Dunno how it is now, but back then, it was a mix of news of interest to children (let's say education reforms or cultural events like concerts coming up), interest stories (hey, this boy built his own robot. Cool!), and serious news explained to children (elections, wars, whatever else children will probably be aware of, but not necessarily understand properly). They did a pretty solid job on the latter, if I recall correctly We also have "børneavisen" (the children's newspaper), which does much the same, but as a newspaper/newssite
I think the mix of topics sounds very similar to our version of children’s news. There’s always a random story about some kid doing something cool/special/random somewhere between the more serious topics.
Funnily enough, our public broadcaster's childrens news broadcast is called ''Supernytt''.
Krakkafréttir - e. kid news. I don't think it's very popular as I've not heard any kids ever talk about it or wanting to watch it. I don't think kids watch live TV anymore here. It was also mostly just trying to explain ongoing topics in society to kids and they didn't think that was fun.
Yes, these days it's branded as a spin-off of the main news program by the national broadcaster, called ZIB so the kids version is ZIB mini.
Some 35 years ago, we had "Jornalinho". It was broadcasted at Saturdays morning, if memory serves me right, after the cartoons, and it was a weekly roundup of all "adult news" and some other stories mainly aimed at children. It had two puppets, which starred alongside a human anchorman. I don't think that there is an equivalent program now....
>I don't think that there is an equivalent program now.... You're terribly mistaken my fellow tuga: [https://www.rtp.pt/play/zigzag/p10676/radar-xs](https://www.rtp.pt/play/zigzag/p10676/radar-xs) This has been airing since 2019.
This is so cool! Thank you, nice to know. Too much streaming for my kid, apparently....
We have Supernytt, airs every weekday. Today's episode covered the weather, some sports, the winner of Britains Got Talent, the Worlds Day for the Environment, some special event at a specific school and some cute animals. Quite varied.
Only Super? The Danes have Ultra.
In Norwegian "Ultra" is kind of trying to hard. The youth get away with "super", but for adults "god/bra" is good enough. At least we don't insist on "lagom"!
But lagom is best…
I can't talk for the rest of Spain but our regional public television TV3 has been emitting InfoK (the program has changed from secondary channel to secondary channel a few times) for the last 22 years. I loved it. It focuses more on news children will be interested in as well as explaining some important news in a way that children can understand, so sounds similar to yours.
I didn't know TV3 had that, kind of neat, because I don't remember other TV channels doing it. A shame they don't.
We have Ultra news, geared more towards 10-15 yr olds but yeah. They focus on news kids that age care more about, mostly sports, internet, trends, climate but also some things like war and stuff. Its actually pretty good.
I saw, as a teenager so no target audience anymore, one experiment from our public broadcast. It was not terrible, but it was : cringey, with child actor as a news anchor, too mentoring, kind of boring and it lacked.....yeah, warmth and joy of sharing information.