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Newsround 40 years

John Craven (April 2012)

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John
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/17597622

Happy Birthday (John Craven’s) Newsround. According to BBC Breakfast, John Craven will be on the programme later to celebrate 40 years of the programme.
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Generic
John posted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/17597622

Happy Birthday (John Craven’s) Newsround. According to BBC Breakfast, John Craven will be on the programme later to celebrate 40 years of the programme.


Last year when Ant and Dec invaded Newsround, they tweeted that they had done so on "John Cravens Newsround"...Those boys are so up to date!
SR
SomeRandomStuff
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John posted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/17597622

Happy Birthday (John Craven’s) Newsround. According to BBC Breakfast, John Craven will be on the programme later to celebrate 40 years of the programme.


Last year when Ant and Dec invaded Newsround, they tweeted that they had done so on "John Cravens Newsround"...Those boys are so up to date!


Might well be better to get John Craven back... have you seen the disgraceful excuses for presenters they've had in recent years?
JW
JamesWorldNews
Oh, I don't know they're all that bad. There is one boy who is on these days (I believe his name is Ricky something or other. He is actually rather good, I feel.

OK. He may not wear a Fair Isle sweater or have a Trimphone (remember them?) positioned just behind his aft, but he can indeed deliver an autocued statement.

Is anything else required?
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SomeRandomStuff
BBC WORLD posted:
Oh, I don't know they're all that bad. There is one boy who is on these days (I believe his name is Ricky something or other. He is actually rather good, I feel.

OK. He may not wear a Fair Isle sweater or have a Trimphone (remember them?) positioned just behind his aft, but he can indeed deliver an autocued statement.

Is anything else required?

We all know the real reasons why you like Ricky... and to be fair its not unjustified. However, since Lizo Mazumbafitness and The Squeaky Mouse Lady, the Newsround presenters just havent been up to the quality of their predecessors.

John Craven = Legend
LL
London Lite Founding member
I remember John Craven co-presenting the 30th anniversary bulletin with Becky Jago in 2002. Something similar this time round?
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Brekkie
Had to laugh the other day to see that Lizo Mzimba is still basically the BBC's chief Harry Potter correspondent when they were doing something about it on Breakfast.
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Andrew Founding member
Brekkie posted:
Had to laugh the other day to see that Lizo Mzimba is still basically the BBC's chief Harry Potter correspondent when they were doing something about it on Breakfast.


Not just Breakfast, they also ran the report on the Ten which was quite cringeworthy.
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bilky asko
SomeRandomStuff posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Oh, I don't know they're all that bad. There is one boy who is on these days (I believe his name is Ricky something or other. He is actually rather good, I feel.

OK. He may not wear a Fair Isle sweater or have a Trimphone (remember them?) positioned just behind his aft, but he can indeed deliver an autocued statement.

Is anything else required?

We all know the real reasons why you like Ricky... and to be fair its not unjustified. However, since Lizo Mazumbafitness and The Squeaky Mouse Lady, the Newsround presenters just havent been up to the quality of their predecessors.

John Craven = Legend


Jake Humphrey has done quite well from it.
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Westy2
Ed Doolan interviewing John Craven on BBC WM Sunday morning.
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Brekkie
bilky asko posted:
SomeRandomStuff posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Oh, I don't know they're all that bad. There is one boy who is on these days (I believe his name is Ricky something or other. He is actually rather good, I feel.

OK. He may not wear a Fair Isle sweater or have a Trimphone (remember them?) positioned just behind his aft, but he can indeed deliver an autocued statement.

Is anything else required?

We all know the real reasons why you like Ricky... and to be fair its not unjustified. However, since Lizo Mazumbafitness and The Squeaky Mouse Lady, the Newsround presenters just havent been up to the quality of their predecessors.

John Craven = Legend


Jake Humphrey has done quite well from it.

I think he only ever did Sportsround. I'd say the last credible journalist to come from Newsround was Matthew Price.
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SWatson7
Brekkie posted:
bilky asko posted:
SomeRandomStuff posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Oh, I don't know they're all that bad. There is one boy who is on these days (I believe his name is Ricky something or other. He is actually rather good, I feel.

OK. He may not wear a Fair Isle sweater or have a Trimphone (remember them?) positioned just behind his aft, but he can indeed deliver an autocued statement.

Is anything else required?

We all know the real reasons why you like Ricky... and to be fair its not unjustified. However, since Lizo Mazumbafitness and The Squeaky Mouse Lady, the Newsround presenters just havent been up to the quality of their predecessors.

John Craven = Legend


Jake Humphrey has done quite well from it.

I think he only ever did Sportsround. I'd say the last credible journalist to come from Newsround was Matthew Price.


The problem isn't with Newsround as such but Matthew Price left around the time that news channels started to take off, and following that it was only a matter of time before the bigger bulletins looked a little closer to home for their newest signings. Its unlikely we'll ever see another Julie Etchingham or Krishnan Guru-Murthy come through Newsround.

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