Teen Kids News (originally titled EKN Worldwide Kids News and alternately abbreviated on-air as < b> TKN since 2012) is a series of educational news magazines aimed at children between the ages of 13-16 and their parents who debuted in the first syndication on the weekend of September 27, 2003. Teen Kids News addresses important issues in a format intended to educate and inform children and adults. The studio segment was taken at a studio in Manhattan with field reports conducted at locations across the country and the world. The series meets Federal Communications Commission guidelines for education and information programs. US television stations are required by law to broadcast three hours of children's programs each week; The majority of affiliates who run the series usually broadcast it on Saturday or Sunday morning depending on the station, although some series are airborne on Friday in the morning or afternoon period.
The series airs on more than 200 TV stations covering about 91% of the country and is seen in 1,000 locations in 175 countries worldwide through the American Troop Network and is visible in 12,600 schools through special classroom education feeds. Although the TV Parent Guide does not require news programs to receive ratings, all series episodes are rated TV-PG.
Beginning with the tenth-season premiere on the weekend of September 15, 2012, Teen Kids News begins airing in high definition. Segments in the studio are broadcast in format, although most field reports continue to be produced and broadcast in standard 4: 3 definitions, with pillarboxing added to fill the left and right sides of the widescreen TV set.
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The series was created by Al Primo, former news director for KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WABC-TV in New York City and the creator of the popular concept of Eyewitness News . Primo launched this series as a project to give young people the opportunity to develop an interest in the journalism industry by delivering news and information to their peers. Teen Kids News originally known as EKN Worldwide Kids News for the first half of the first season of this series, before adopting the current name. The series is the first attempt at a syndicated news event aimed at children since a similar cancellation of News for Kids in 1996.
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Production and content
The educational content for this event was first provided by the publication of Weekly Readers which has since ceased publication. From its launch until the 2009-10 season, the series started each broadcast with a weekly news summary with snippets provided by Fox News via the Fox News Channel in the Classroom initiative; this is omitted in commercial broadcasts but continues to be included in educational production as a segment of Current Events. Commercial programs dropped news releases that support broadcast stories of special interest on issues that are important to children today, and features of children and teenagers help the specific cause, which has been shown following a summary of news before then. The series is formatted similarly to news magazines and features special interest stories, sports and entertainment; before certain news segments and before commercial breaks, this series presents special short cuts on environmental issues and offbeat stories. The sports segment was also provided during the show as well as special interest pieces, and NBC Sports produced a segment that airs in the months leading up to the Olympic Games called "Olympic Insight" which began in 2008 before the Summer Olympics, featuring interviews and recordings of the American athletes.
The event also featured education-based segments such as "Word," a game in which three words (many unusual in the event's target demographic vocabulary) are illustrated by its meaning. The program is closed with text and is used as a tool of English as a second language (ESL) in certain areas. Entertainment stories have also become common use in this series, generally broadcast as the latest stories of television broadcasts, and often feature interviews with existing actors and musicians including The Jonas Brothers, Corbin Bleu, and Modern Family actor Sarah Hyland.
Personality in the air
The main marker of the event, Mwanzaa, who has joined this series since its debut in September 2003, departs in September 2013. All anchors and reporters for program ranges between the ages of 10 and 20; unlike traditional news broadcasts and news magazine programs, this series never reveals the anchor's name and its reporter, identifying them only by first name. A number of anchors/reporters are the children of the anchor/television reporter. Current advisors are Livia and Siena.
The series has featured for many years anchors/journalists who are the children of famous television personalities and journalists including Haley Cohen, the original anchor of the show from 2003 to 2007 and the daughter of former CBS and Fox News journalist Paula Zahn; Jenna Ruggiero, reporter from 2003 to 2009 and daughter of the popular New York City anchor/reporter Rosanna Scotto of Fox owned and operated station WNYW; Cody Gifford, sports carrier for the first two seasons and the sons of Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford; and Meredith Viera's son Gabe Cohen, the remaining two-season sports presenter and currently a general-purpose reporter for KOMO-TV in Seattle.
Reception
Critical reception
The advocacy group Children Now recognizes Teen Kids News as one of eight children's programs that actually meet the FCC's educational requirements for children's programs and is listed as a program favored by groups along with others such as Sesame Street .
Teen Kids News received the New York Emmy Award in 2013 and was nominated for the nationwide Daytime Emmy Award for the series at USSÃ, New York (LPD-21).
This event has also been recognized by People , TV Guide , and New York Daily News . It has been featured on NBC's Today and Comedy Central The Daily Show with Jon Stewart .
Ratings
According to Nielsen Media Research, Teen Kids News received a national rating of 1.0 for the November 2009 sweeping period. The series performs well among adult audiences with approximately 600,000 women aged 18-54 and 400,000 men aged 18-54.
Sponsors
The series is very strict in the selection of guarantor for certain segments and seen in its commercial break, and follows strict guidelines and maintains the distinction between editorial and sponsors. Sponsorship generally comes from clothing, entertainment, health and beauty, electronics, retail, and the US government.
Toy companies and food companies are excluded from buying commercial space for the series and are not allowed to sponsor sponsorship in series, other syndicated children series also follow this policy and therefore the ads served on the show generally appeal to mature audiences instead target program demographics.
International version
Impressed by the positive message of the series, a programming executive in Rustavi 2 in the Republic of Georgia approached Al Primo to create a version of Teen Kids News for the country. The Georgia version of the series titled Sabavshvo Ambebi , debuted on March 22, 2009.
Negotiations are under way with several countries to license Teen Kids News as a concept of education, nation-building projects, programs to preserve the country's cultural heritage and ESL tools.
References
External links
- Official website
- Teen Kids News on IMDb
- Teen Kids News on TV.com
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