Newsround moves to YouTube after axing teatime bulletin

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Newsround is hoping to make its mark on YouTube after axing its teatime bulletin. The news programme, which has been on-screen for almost 50 years, has unveiled a series of changes.

They include its first channel on YouTube, which has lured young viewers away from broadcasters in recent years. Watchdog Ofcom previously gave the broadcaster the green light to axe Newsround’s afternoon TV slot, which has been a fixture for generations of children returning from school.

The BBC is moving more of its children’s content online, where it says its audience is. Newsround presenter De’Graft Mensah told the PA news agency: “I’m not sad, because I think from when I was watching Newsround (as a child) – it wasn’t that long ago because I am only 24