Challenger broke apart at 11:39am EST which was 16:39 UK Time Newsround as memory serves aired between 17:00 or 17:30. I think it was the former. Newsround was the first UK news channel to break the story, and it happened on a childrens news programme I was 6 years old and remember it well
I'm amazed that this was produced as a news show for children (6-10 year olds, according to the Wikipedia entry for Newsround). It's more informative and to-the-point than most adult news shows nowadays, and not flashy and infantalised in order to hold the attention of today's kids.
4:39 I’ve never forgotten this from President Reagan. I know he said the children of America but I really felt (as an 8 year old sitting in England) that he was talking to us too. A remarkable communicator
I remember watching it happen live as a kid on Newsround. Hence here. The playground joke was the woman teacher on board had blue eyes,one blew left and one blew right.
Great to see this, especially for the great Reg Turnbill. At first I thought it was the bulletin from the previous evening just after the accident happened. I remember it very vividly, but haven't been able to find it except for a brief, wobbly and incomplete clip on RUclips
Investigators actually found the "black box" from Challenger. When they played the audio, the last words on the tape were "What do this red button do ?"
Original stand-ins in the 70s were Paul MacDowell and Lucy Mathen... From the early 80s Helen Rollason replaced Mathen, and Roger Finn replaced MacDowell... Howard Stableford and Terry Baddoo used to co-present "Newsround Extra" with John Craven in the mid-80s too
Have you noticed that John always had a phone beside him but it never rang, not once in all his years of presenting this show ? - It was probably just there to make him look important, I bet it wasn't even connected !
Presumably they turned off the ringer during the actual programme. However it was occasionally used on air to talk to correspondents, for example during the Falklands War when the only way of getting video back to the UK was to stick some tapes on the next available plane or ship. You'd have John talking on the phone to one of the BBC journalists with the task force, with occasional still pictures that had been sent via Radiofax.
I only remember the phone being used once, when John was interviewing Roger Finn with a report from the Falklands... All newsrooms had phones in them in those days, though
Challenger broke apart at 11:39am EST which was 16:39 UK Time
Newsround as memory serves aired between 17:00 or 17:30. I think it was the former.
Newsround was the first UK news channel to break the story, and it happened on a childrens news programme
I was 6 years old and remember it well
I'm amazed that this was produced as a news show for children (6-10 year olds, according to the Wikipedia entry for Newsround). It's more informative and to-the-point than most adult news shows nowadays, and not flashy and infantalised in order to hold the attention of today's kids.
I think it's more that most "adult" news shows have been steadily dumbed down to beneath the level of children's television in the 1980s.
I remember watching this as an 11 year old back then. An informative programme that didn't patronise the young audiences.
4:39 I’ve never forgotten this from President Reagan. I know he said the children of America but I really felt (as an 8 year old sitting in England) that he was talking to us too. A remarkable communicator
I remember watching it happen live as a kid on Newsround. Hence here. The playground joke was the woman teacher on board had blue eyes,one blew left and one blew right.
Great to see this, especially for the great Reg Turnbill. At first I thought it was the bulletin from the previous evening just after the accident happened. I remember it very vividly, but haven't been able to find it except for a brief, wobbly and incomplete clip on RUclips
I remember this, I was 13 and watched Newsround.
I watched this at the time. I think it was so progressive to give children their own news show.
Investigators actually found the "black box" from Challenger. When they played the audio, the last words on the tape were "What do this red button do ?"
That was horrible 😢😢 I forgot about that.
2:49
Nope!
Occasionally John had stand-ins...Helen Rollinson and some guy called Paul ?
Original stand-ins in the 70s were Paul MacDowell and Lucy Mathen... From the early 80s Helen Rollason replaced Mathen, and Roger Finn replaced MacDowell... Howard Stableford and Terry Baddoo used to co-present "Newsround Extra" with John Craven in the mid-80s too
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I knew that shuttle 🚀 had problems
Have you noticed that John always had a phone beside him but it never rang, not once in all his years of presenting this show ? - It was probably just there to make him look important, I bet it wasn't even connected !
Presumably they turned off the ringer during the actual programme.
However it was occasionally used on air to talk to correspondents, for example during the Falklands War when the only way of getting video back to the UK was to stick some tapes on the next available plane or ship. You'd have John talking on the phone to one of the BBC journalists with the task force, with occasional still pictures that had been sent via Radiofax.
I only remember the phone being used once, when John was interviewing Roger Finn with a report from the Falklands... All newsrooms had phones in them in those days, though