Gethin Jones Joins Daybreak

Gethin Jones is joining ITV1's breakfast programme Daybreak from Monday, May 21.　

Jones will be the features reporter and his first role will be presenting a week long special for Children’s Hospice Week.　

He will be visiting different hospices around the country each morning meeting children and their families and looking at the great work they do.　

He started filming last week when he took a group of children from a hospice to meet Simon Cowell on the set of Britain’s Got Talent.　

The following week Jones will front the Jubilee Jamboree feature, a series of special broadcasts from around the UK to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.　

Jones said: I'm delighted to finally announce that I'm joining the Daybreak team. Filming started a few weeks ago, involving preparation for Children's Hospice Week and the Diamond Jubilee. I hope you can join us to share the stories of these remarkable children and to celebrate the 60th anniversary in style!"

Editor of Daybreak, David Kermode, said: "We're so excited to have Gethin on board. He has bags of enthusiasm, he's brilliant at putting those he meets at ease and he has loads of experience of live TV. He's going to be a big star in our new line up."

May 16 2012 - waveguide.co.uk

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Children's Programmes To Leave BBC One

The BBC Trust today confirmed that children's programmes will no longer be shown on BBC One and Two following the digital switchover.

The shows will move permanently to CBBC and CBeebies at a date yet to be agreed, but it will be after the final.
analogue transmitters are switched off in Northern Ireland between October 10 and 24.

The confirmation came in a report approving the BBC's cost-cutting plans.
In recent months, the number of young people watching children's programmes on the BBC's main terrestrial channels has occasionally dropped as low as 1,000.

Figures on digital have steadily increased since its introduction of CBBC and CBeebies in 2002.

A Trust spokesperson said: "Children's programmes are absolutely fundamental to the BBC and that is why we have protected investment in them in the light of cuts elsewhere.

"Only a very small percentage of children still solely watch these programmes on BBC One and BBC Two alone, so moving them to digital channels is merely following current viewing patterns and reflects the fact that CBeebies and CBBC will be universally available on digital TV from the end of this year."

May 16 2012 - waveguide.co.uk

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