BBC switches to YouTube to save Blue Peter in a children's TV crisis
BBC switches to YouTube to save Blue Peter in a children's TV crisis
BBC points Blue Peter viewers to YouTube to save 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.
Children's TV is the only reason I still pay my license fee. Once my kid grows out of Hey Duggee the BBC can fuck off.
It was a godsend during lockdown, and am still making use of it now, but yeah... given the amount of BBC/C4 I personally watch these days, it probably works out at about £2 per episode.