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  • BBC Magazines to launch first pre-school weekly

    BBC Magazines to launch first pre-school weekly

    MUMBAI: BBC Magazines in the UK is set to expand the pre-school sector with CBeebies Weekly magazine next month.

    CBeebies Weekly magazine’s content has been created to enhance a child’s experience of the CBeebies programming week. Featuring all the familiar CBeebies characters and presenters from the UK’s number one digital channel for children under 5, the magazine will encompass the CBeebies trusted philosophy of learning through play.

    Following extensive research with parents and children, CBeebies Weekly has been designed to focus on encouraging parent and child interaction.

    Activities have been created to promote a sense of achievement for both and every issue has a pull out reward chart which children will be encouraged to use in tandem with the stickers that come free with every issue. The magazine also includes a child friendly TV guide that creates anticipation and excitement about the programmes, as well as encouraging active viewing in young children.

    BBC Children’s department controller Richard Deverell says, “We believe that CBeebies Weekly will enable us to develop a deeper relationship with our viewers. It will enhance a child’s enjoyment of CBeebies, encouraging real interaction between the child and the programmes, as well as helping parents to get the most out of the learning potential of CBeebies whilst still having lots of fun.”

    BBC Magazines Pre-school publisher, Pauline Cooke says, “Our research has shown that parents extend their trust of the CBeebies channel to the magazine in terms of quality and educational value. CBeebies Weekly will be at the heart of our portfolio of strong character branded pre-school magazines and will enable us to create a magazine that for the first time truly reflects a child’s week.”

    “As with all our pre-school magazines, we have a designated Educational Editor, to ensure that the content of the magazine actively reflects and promotes the developmental needs of pre-school children, and is underpinned by the six areas of learning in the Foundation Stage’s Early Learning Goals,” said Cooke.

  • BBC’s kids channel CBBC names Deverell as controller

    BBC’s kids channel CBBC names Deverell as controller

    MUMBAI: BBC’s kids’ channel, CBBC has promoted chief operating officer Richard Deverell to be its controller. On the other hand, Anne Gilchrist has been appointed CBBC creative director.

    Deverell became COO of CBBC in 2005 under the controller Alison Sharman, who recently joined ITV. He spent 10 years in BBC News, in the strategy and marketing department, before heading up the BBC News Interactive.

    “My immediate priority will be to focus, with Anne Gilchrist, on the creative renewal of our two brands, CBBC and Cbeebies. On both, we need programmes that are achingly distinctive and delight their audiences,” says Deverell while speaking to BBC News website.

    “Richard is an outstanding leader and strategic thinker. I am confident he will build the output and reputation of the department both nationally and internationally,” said BBC creative director Alan Yentob.

    The BBC has two kids’ channels, CBBC and Cbeebies, and contributes output to BBC One and BBC Two.

  • CBBC to energise content with new commissions

    CBBC to energise content with new commissions

    MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s children’s channel CBBC’s acting controller Richard Deverell has announced a raft of new commissions to add an energising new twist to the broad mix of children’s programmes on the channel.

    Deverell said, “I think these new commissions demonstrate our ambition to deliver programmes of great originality and distinctiveness. We have just overhauled our in-house commissioning to make it more inclusive and collaborative.This comes hot on the heels of the restructuring of our independent commissioning system to ensure we are getting the best, most creative ideas through.”

    Launching in April 2006, RU Game? is an ambitious new cross-platform daily magazine show for breakfast time which tackles children’s universal experience of growing up and empowers them to meet life head on.

    Science is the subject under the spotlight in 101 Things To Do With Ice Cream. This new format, to launch first as a web proposition, will take the audience on a journey of discovery of science fact and science trivia through witty and lateral connections.

    Meanwhile Beat The Boss will celebrate children’s entrepreneurial skills as they battle against the bosses to beat them at their own game. Magazine Programmes executive editor Reem Nouss will executive produce all three of these projects which are being made by CBBC in-house production.

    Also commissioned is Newsround Investigates. It will be occasional half-hours taking an in-depth, investigative look at issues which profoundly affect children’s lives. The first of these will transmit next year and intermittently throughout the year and Roy Milani is to executive produce.

    All these new commissions are being made by CBBC In-house production and were commissioned by outgoing controller Alison Sharman.

  • BBC launches online Newstracker

    BBC launches online Newstracker

    MUMBAI: BBC has announced that its website bbc.co.uk/news has announced that it will begin rolling out links to other news providers alongside its own stories.
    The move is designed to offer access to even more detailed information and the chance to compare sources or check out a different perspective on the same story, with a longer-term view of improving media literacy.

    The BBC Newstracker system uses web search technology to identify content from other news websites that relates to a particular BBC story. The service provides bbc.co.uk/news with around 4,000 feeds, through Moreover Technologies, from news sites from all over the world.
    The system then takes the stories and compares their text with the text of the bbc.co.uk/news report.
    Where it finds a match, it can provide a link directly from the BBC website to the external site. As this comparison is done regularly, the BBC stories contain links to the latest and most relevant articles appearing on other sites.
    The service is being deployed on an increasing number of stories over the next few weeks and will become a regular feature on the site. BBC news head Interactive Richard Deverell said, “BBC Newstracker addresses a clear user need: we know that audiences, particularly younger audiences, want and seek out a wider range of news sources. The new links will provide users with an opportunity to read our content in the context of what other news providers are saying.”