rkolsen 1684 Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 NBC News seems to be going for every demo from their millennial style Stay Tuned InstaSnap, to NBC News Signal YouTube broadcasts that seem like dressed down version of Nightly News. Now they’re doing two minute “news” broadcast for kids. It’s called NBC News for Universal Kids. It’s not really newsy per se but Thursday’s Edition covered citizenship and what makes a good one. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
east-tx-tv 121 Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 NBC News seems to be going for every demo from their millennial style Stay Tuned InstaSnap, to NBC News Signal YouTube broadcasts that seem like dressed down version of Nightly News. Now they’re doing two minute “news” broadcast for kids. It’s called NBC News for Universal Kids. It’s not really newsy per se but Thursday’s Edition covered citizenship and what makes a good one. This looks somewhat like the old In The News bits that CBS used to do on Saturday mornings, but with a more modern style/approach. Are those in the Universal Kids age group going to take this seriously, or tune out? Will be interesting to see. If NBC is serious about this concept of youth-news programming, they need to keep this going steadily long-term. No wishy-washy wavering, or feeling like they can't leave well enough alone. That has happened entirely too often over the years, especially on their entertainment programming side of the network. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 978 Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Does anybody even watch Universal Kids? I never hear anything about it. It seems to make The Hub look like Nickelodeon circa 1997. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2428 Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Are those in the Universal Kids age group going to take this seriously, or tune out? Will be interesting to see. Considering the network's ratings have plunged into the lowest tier of Nielsen ratings where the MTV automated video networks, BeIN and Byron Allen's networks have become regular residents...it feels more like spackle to stop yet another TheRealReal or low-tier debit card ad than a serious effort and the network is like 'can News give us something to keep eyeballs for a couple minutes?'. Parents and kids have clearly rejected replacing Sprout's neutral but fine preschool programming for UK's clearly commercial lineup (which seems to be everything international that even Netflix and Amazon rejected and a bunch of other poor projects). At this point, Universal Kids is about a year away from getting wound down suddenly like Cloo or Esquire. The network's audience at this point is pretty much only zealots who refuse to give any business to the Nick/Disney/CN triad, or those oddballs online who keep sending mail to Comcast wanting them to reboot Woody Woodpecker and Heckyl and Jeckyl for the modern age. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainave 606 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Nothing rivals Nick News. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 292 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Does anybody even watch Universal Kids? I never hear anything about it. It seems to make The Hub look like Nickelodeon circa 1997. The Hub became Discovery Family and MLP's the only thing keeping it alive-- and it's still probably doing better than UK is. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 978 Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 The Hub had a lot of strikes against it and if not for Hasbro maintaining a minority stake in Discovery Family, MLP:FIM would have been off to Netflix ages ago and Discovery Family would either be running the 2010 Yogi Bear movie on repeat or blown up and revamped as something else yet again. As for rebooting Woody for the modern age, they have... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4368 Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 As for rebooting Woody for the modern age, they have... AHHHHHHHHH!!!! KILL IT!!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!1!!!!eleventy!!!! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickInRoseville 8 Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 The Hub had a lot of strikes against it and if not for Hasbro maintaining a minority stake in Discovery Family, MLP:FIM would have been off to Netflix ages ago and Discovery Family would either be running the 2010 Yogi Bear movie on repeat or blown up and revamped as something else yet again. As for rebooting Woody for the modern age, they have... THEY RUINED IT!!!!!! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1519 Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Welp, I'm not getting any sleep tonight... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1279 Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Oh God that is unsettling. Makes Freddy Krueger look like Mister Rogers. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColDayNews 438 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 In the early naughts, there was some scuttlebutt re: CBS News reviving In the News for Noggin, before it went all-preschool. At the time, Noggin was co-owned by CTW (now Sesame Workshop) and Viacom (sharing common ownership with CBS). Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4745 Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Well they all ready have NBC News for Dummies... They even won an Emmy! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1232 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Nothing rivals Nick News. *ahem* Teen Kids News would like to have a word with you. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1299 Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 The Hub had a lot of strikes against it and if not for Hasbro maintaining a minority stake in Discovery Family, MLP:FIM would have been off to Netflix ages ago and Discovery Family would either be running the 2010 Yogi Bear movie on repeat or blown up and revamped as something else yet again. As for rebooting Woody for the modern age, they have... If you ever saw that atrocity, it would've been worthy of the Dark Universe. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1299 Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 *ahem* Teen Kids News would like to have a word with you. So would Channel One New...oh wait! They're dead! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-216833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnya2k6 171 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 And from 1978-82, CBS had a kiddie version of 60 Minutes on Saturday mornings called “30 Minutes.” Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-221210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4745 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Let me say this as tactfully as possible... There is NO way in hell I would let my child watch ANY "children's newscast" from ANY of the major networks, or their affiliated cable networks. No freaking way! Not even if Linda Ellerbee hosted it. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16759-nbc-news-for-kids/#findComment-221311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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