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BBC switches to YouTube to save Blue Peter in a children's TV crisis (inews.co.uk)

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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.

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[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why bring up C4? It has never been licence funded.

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I thought it was partially license funded? 99% sure it used to be at least, maybe not now.

EDIT: No, apparently not. It was publicly owned in a roundabout way, but not publicly funded. Pesky Mandela effect.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

It is owned by DCMS, but was initially funded by a tax on ITV’s revenue. Since 1993 it has been funded entirely by advertising. Certain low-wattage Tory culture secretaries didn’t know this when they tried to privatise it a couple of years ago.