12-07-2023, 06:33 PM
(12-07-2023, 12:40 AM)London Lite Wrote: I'm surprised it's taken FTV this long to provide a bulletin for younger people, the BBC and RTÉ have long established bulletins. Presumably this will also go on the Slash section of France.TV in addition to Franceinfo?
While not having a long-standing tradition such as the BBC (with Newsround) and the Dutch NOS (with Jeugdjournaal), France Télévisions has tried twice to air a newscast aimed at children in recent years: "À toi l'actu@" from 2000 to 2002, then "Mon Kanar" from 2002 to 2005. But a timeslot change and subsequent bad ratings caused the latter to be axed.
After that, LCI tried its own "Le Petit JT" in 2015 but it was short-lived.
Currently, in French television, only Arte has a newscast aimed at children, aptly named "Arte Journal Junior", broadcast since 2014. France Télévisions however airs "Un jour, une question" which is not a newscast but a short programme in which a news-related question is answered in the form of a narrated cartoon.
It will be interesting to see France Télévisions trying to aim at a teen demographic with a news format.
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