In the News was a series of two-minute televised video segments that summarized topical news stories for children and pre-teens. The segments were broadcast in the United States on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1985, between Saturday morning animated cartoon programs, as were the arguably better-remembered Schoolhouse Rock and One to Grow On segments on competing networks ABC and NBC, respectively. NBC would also go on to produce its...
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In the News was a series of two-minute televised video segments that summarized topical news stories for children and pre-teens. The segments were broadcast in the United States on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1985, between Saturday morning animated cartoon programs, as were the arguably better-remembered Schoolhouse Rock and One to Grow On segments on competing networks ABC and NBC, respectively. NBC would also go on to produce its own competing version called Ask NBC News.
The "micro-series" (as it would be labelled today) had its genesis in a series of animated interstitials produced by CBS and Hanna Barbera Productions called In The Know, featuring Josie and the Pussycats narrating educational news segments tailored for children. This was eventually metamorphized into a more live-action-oriented micro-series produced solely by CBS' news division.
In the News segments attempted to explain the essence of complex news stories to children, and to do so in a way that...
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