International Children's Day of Broadcasting 2005
International Children's Day of Broadcasting, ICDB, is celebrated around the world every year on the second Sunday in December. This year, many children and young people in our region will again take over the airwaves on December 11th. Albania: Young reporters from the successful TROC ("Speak Out!") youth programme will prepare a feature focusing on children whose right to play has been denied. The young reporters will try to increase the hours of broadcasting on the national channel TVSH and possibly extend their reach to private TV stations. The power of sport as a tool for development and peace is the theme of this year’s ICDB, the day when broadcasters throw open their studio doors and the airwaves to young producers and presenters. Children from the Rolan Bykov Foundation (a branch of a Moscow-based organization promoting films made by children and for children) have produced 6 short films on traditional games/sports played by children in different regions of Armenia. The films, produced in cooperation with UNICEF Armenia, will be broadcast on all major TV channels of the country on December 11th. In neighbouring Azerbaijan, children will be the anchors and producers for a 25-minute programme on children and sports to be aired on Public TV in collaboration with Internews and the teenagers from Kids Crossroads, a cross-border TV project for the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). In Belarus, ICDB will be celebrated both by TV and radio stations. Belorussian radio will broadcast a programme produced by and with children and young people while National Belorussian TV will show a 45-minute youth talk show, also with the young people participating in the production process. On this special children's TV day, three public broadcasters in Bosnia and Herzegovina will air a reportage produced by young people about young athletes. There are also plans for state TV BHTV 1 to have children as anchors for parts of the main news. All broadcasters will be invited to
UNICEF Bulgaria has organized a TV competition where children are asking questions on issues related to the CRC (Convention on the Rights of the Child), on UNICEF activities in the Bulgaria and globally as well as on children's media achievements. The two shows will be broadcast on December 10th and 17th due to the broadcaster's schedule. In Georgia, the first channel of the national Public TV is setting aside a lot of time for children on 11 December. Two hours of live programming in the morning will be led by youth including stories from different parts of Georgia about children and sport. In addition, 10 OneMinutesJr on children In Kosovo, the public broadcaster RTK wil spearhead the ICDB celebrations. Children will speak about their right to sports and play, highlighting especially the importance for more opportunities for girls and children with disabilities. Messages will be placed in a very popular quiz for kids of primary school age, in a live Sunday programme for adults on sports and a teenager's programme on the same topic. In Macedonia, UNICEF (together with MediaWise) will hold a journalism workshop over the ICDB weekend with the theme "Behind the Headlines - Investigating Abuses of Children's Rights". In Moldova, a 90-minute programme on public TV and a two-hour programme on public radio will be broadcast, both programmes were created and produced entirely by teams of young journalists. UNICEF Russia will promote International Children's Day of Broadcating by means of a 13-minute TV film on healthy lifestyles with a special focus on children and sports. The film will go on air on national TV on December 11th. Read more about ICDB in other regions or go to UNICEF's youth media portal website MAGIC.
ICDB - general information
ICDB, celebrated on the second Sunday of every December, is a day when broadcasters around the world "Tune in to Kids". They air quality programming for and about children. But most of all, they allow children to be part of the programming process, to talk about their hopes and dreams and share information with their peers. The Day is a joint initiative of UNICEF and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Every year, thousands of broadcasters in more than a hundred countries take part in the day, celebrating it in ways that are as unique and special as children themselves.
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