Summary
Celebrating 50 years of Newsround... Adam chats through some of the highs (and lows) of the programme with his fellow ex-presenters, Julie Etchingham and Krishnan Guru-Murthy, as well as current presenter, De’Graft Mensah.
And we talk energy bills with the BBC's Simon Jack and Claer Barrett, Consumer Editor at the Financial Times...
Today’s Newscast was made by Cordelia Hemming, Chris Flynn and Ben Cooper. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, now I hope you don't think I'm obsessed about this, but if a famous American TV journalist |
| 0:10.0 | took the name of your podcast and added it to it and then made their own show called |
| 0:14.7 | The Newscast. |
| 0:15.7 | I think you'd be pretty interested in it too. |
| 0:18.0 | Anyway, the newscast has finally appeared on the new CNN streaming platform, which means |
| 0:23.4 | people have been able to see it. |
| 0:25.6 | And one of those people is the TV editor of Variety magazine, Brian Steinberg. |
| 0:29.8 | Hi, Brian. |
| 0:30.8 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:31.8 | Good, thanks. |
| 0:32.8 | Brian, we would normally play a clip of the program so we could get a sense of it, but we |
| 0:37.0 | can't afford to do that. |
| 0:38.8 | Thanks CNN. |
| 0:39.8 | Can you just give us a flavor of what the actual content is? |
| 0:43.4 | This really is, I think, a take on the traditional broadcast network evening newscast. |
| 0:49.0 | You see behind a desk, he has kind of a moment of a look up of a wider touches. |
| 0:54.8 | He has those on blow wise desk, some furniture in the background, but I really think it's |
| 0:59.0 | meant to be the streaming equivalent of the CVS evening news. |
| 1:03.0 | Right. |
| 1:04.0 | So they've kind of gone back to the roots of American TV news because it was actually that's |
| 1:07.3 | where the word newscast originally comes from, isn't it? |
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