Newsround

Thought Newsround being in Salford and Newsbeat down in London likely makes that tricky. Presumably they share facilities with CBBC continuity (we know they're not in with Breakfast/North West Tonight).

AIUI the Newsround set is opposite the CBBC continuity set

I've always thought that BBC should put Newsround and Newsbeat together to create something new, whilst reaching their specific target audiences.

On-Air example: "This is Newsround from BBC Newsbeat" or even "Newsround from Newsbeat".

Surely the idea of merging makes sense?

Directly opposite - an ident is always played between continuity and NR to allow cameras to move.

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In the morning, links are prerecorded so there's no need to move cameras.
In the afternoon, the first live CBBC continuity link is always after Newsround, so no need to move cameras until after the bulletin.
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Not really - they serve completely different audiences.

Video of the Newsround set/CBBC set in the same studio.

1:34 onwards

Thanks for clearing that up - haven’t watched CBBC in years but in my day, there was always more bulletins throughout the evening so an ident inevitably had to be played following a link.

In my day, the programme was presented by John Craven and Paul McDowell! (Paul when John was on holiday). And then Roger Finn.

In those days, it aired at either 5:30pm or 4:55pm. (Omnipresent trimphone).

My Newsround era was Krishnan, Juliet Morris, Chris Rogers, Julie Etchingham. It was certainly a case of 'less is more' in those days. It was only on once a day but it was a good programme. Eventually, I outgrew it and started to watch the Six (after Neighbours!) and became mesmerised with the virtual-era news branding. I think that was what really started my interest in TV presentation. Then by 1999 I had access to the Internet and the May rebrand of BBC News prompted me to find TV Home et al (and eventually TV Forum when it launched). I'm not sure if I was a kid these days, the current TV branding would have prompted the same reaction.

With all news there is the balance between providing viewers constantly updating information or just taking a point in the day where you look back at events. I think Newsround is better doing the latter - and indeed needs to in order to deliver it's mission of explaining events to children.

The problem with having a morning bulletin only is it will always be yesterdays news. That said if CBBC truly considers itself a PSB then Newsround should be shown around the time the channel gets peak viewing. I would assume that is late afternoon but don't actually have a clue.

Surely in the morning kids should be at school. If it is a cost saving measure and if I had to save, I'd combine Cbeebies and CBBC, programmes for youngsters until 4pm, then things for older children, including newsround, which I propose goes back to a cheerful 5 minutes of news (no celebrity/pop included) and have Uncle Simon McCoy present it at 5pm - there must be a spare 5 mins before the 6 goes into rehearsal.