BBC switches to YouTube to save Blue Peter in a children's TV crisis

Netflix and YouTube should pay a levy from their profits to create a £100m fund for UK children’s programming, leading presenters said, amid warnings that kids’ TV is facing a crisis.

Former Blue Peter stars Anthea Turner and Konnie Huq led calls for the Government to intervene as the lure of streaming and video-sharing platforms forces traditional broadcasters to abandon children’s programming.

The dominance of YouTube – now the first choice TV destination for Generation Alpha, according to Ofcom – is leaving children at the mercy of “age-inappropriate content and generic or US-focused content, rather than content focused on the needs of a UK audience,” the Children’s Media Foundation (CMF) said.