Programme makers shift focus to internet and daily children’s TV bulletin aimed at schools
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BBC is to end the teatime edition of Newsround after almost 50 years, having concluded that children no longer turn on traditional television channels when they return home from school.
The news show has produced an afternoon programme ever since it was launched by John Craven in 1972 but it has been hit hard by changing viewing habits. It has suffered from a move from BBC One to the CBBC channel and even during the lockdown each episode was attracting just 24,000 viewers aged six to 12.