Behind the News
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Behind the News | |
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Also known as | BtN |
Genre | Children's Education, Current Affairs |
Presented by | Nathan Bazley Sarah Larsen Tash Thiele |
Opening theme | Theme Song |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 46 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Robert Clark (c.2005–2014) |
Production location(s) | Adelaide, South Australia |
Camera setup | Digital Betacam |
Running time | 26 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | ABC (1969-2014) ABC3 (2014-present) |
Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 6 June 1969 15 February 2005 – present |
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Behind the News (more commonly known as BtN) is a long-running news program broadcast on Australia's ABC TV made in Adelaide and aimed at school-aged children (8–13 years of age). BtN is aimed at upper primary and lower secondary students with the goal of helping them understand current issues and events in their world.
Behind the News explores major news events using the language, music and popular culture of young people. The program explains the concepts that underpin the issues and events, while also providing background information that puts current affairs into context. Behind the News also covers kids' issues often overlooked by mainstream news, and makes use of online resources including streaming video of BtN stories, study materials for teachers and additional information and activities for students. BtN explains news items in a fun, simplistic way that is easy to understand.
Many schools allow students watch BtN on a regular basis in the hope that it will give them an insight into politics, current affairs, sport and various other topics.
In July 2015, CBS started airing the show.
History
In 2004 Behind the News was temporarily axed due to Government budget cuts but returned to air in 2005.[1][2] While BtN was the first and original program of this nature, a similar program on Network Ten, ttn (the total news), debuted in the year BtN did not air. ttn itself was axed at the end of 2008.
In June 2014, BtN celebrated its 45th birthday (based on years of production, discounting 2004), producing a short spliced clip of several decades' worth of presenters, theme songs, and stories.[3][4] On 21 July 2014, BtN moved to digital channel ABC3 as part of the ABC's educational programming.[citation needed]
ABC3 News
News On 3 and BtN Extra (collectively referred to as ABC3 News) are programs broadcast on ABC3 since 4 December 2009 and 1 February 2010 respectively. They are produced by and feature the same team as Behind the News, but uses different graphics, music and website.
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Notes
- Use Australian English from September 2013
- All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
- Use dmy dates from June 2013
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with unsourced statements from April 2015
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows
- ABC News and Current Affairs
- Australian children's television series
- Black-and-white Australian television programs
- Australian television news programmes
- 1969 Australian television series debuts
- 2003 Australian television series endings
- 2005 Australian television series debuts
- 2015 American television series debuts
- 1960s Australian television series
- 1970s Australian television series
- 1980s Australian television series
- 1990s Australian television series
- 2000s Australian television series
- 2010s Australian television series
- English-language television programming
- Television shows set in Adelaide
- Television shows set in South Australia
- Television series revived after cancellation