Greg Childs
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Greg Childs is a British Children's Media consultant.
His first experience of children's programming was at the Children's Department of the BBC in the 1980's. He started his career there writing and directing the popular daily pre-school show Play School . He produced ten years of Record Breakers for Children's BBC from 1988-1998, working with presenters Roy Castle, Cheryl Baker, Mark Curry, Ron Reagan Junior and Kriss Akabusi. Meanwhile he was also responsible for comedy series Bodger & Badger and Space Vets, and factual series Take Two and Total Reality.
In 1998 Greg launched the first Children's BBC websites for Live and Kicking, Blue Peter, Newsround and CBBC. He then continued to innovate, developing all the children's and youth content for the new BBC Digital channels, BBC Choice and BBC Knowledge and a range of unusual cross-media formats for kids.
In 2001 he was responsible for the programming of all the children's airtime on the BBC Choice network (a daytime service for pre-schoolers) which led in turn to the launch of the two BBC kidnets CBBC and CBeebies in 2002. Greg Childs developed the channel concepts and schedules and steered the launch team, while also introducing the first UK Interactive Television service for pre-schoolers - CBeebies Interactive.
He headed up an inonovation unit in CBBC investigating the future of children's media, and since leaving the Corporation in 2004 has used this experience and his skills as an innovator to work in a number of fields. He was in the launch team for the UK educational training channel Teachers' TV, and for the commercial children's channel CITV. He has worked as a digtial commmunications consultant to governement, broadcasting and production entities, he has created interactive and cross-media formats for a number of clients, and he regularly produces and hosts media conferences such as Cinekid in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, or the Showcomotion Children's Media Conference in Sheffield, UK.
[edit] References
- Edmunds, Marlene. "Kids stay in the picture at Cinekid", Variety, Reed Elsevier, Inc., October 18, 2004. Retrieved on October 23, 2006. (in English)
- Robey, Tim. "BBC wants in on kidvid fray", Variety, Reed Elsevier, Inc., October 16, 2000. Retrieved on October 23, 2006. (in English)
- Workshop Interactive Children's Television - Cinekid 2006 (English). Mediamatic Workshops (October 23, 2006). Retrieved on October 23, 2006.
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