BBC Newsround Challenger Disaster 1986 (Poor Quality, Brief Clip)

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This is a very brief video copied from Betamax onto VHS 26 years ago (all that remains I'm afraid) of the BBC's breaking news of the Challenger disaster on January 28th 1986. Surprisingly, it was reported first on the children's news programme Newsround, with Roger Finn rather than by the BBC's regular television news service.
Newsround was the first British television programme to break the news of the loss of Challenger on 28 January 1986.
Update 2014: Interestingly, the BBC contacted me about this clip a couple of years ago as they intended to do a programme about celebrities who were children at the time & who had seen Newsround on 28th January 1986 and how it had affected them. Apparently the programme does not exist in the BBC archive and this may be the only recording in existence. They wanted to use the original recording for the show, but the 2nd gen recording I have access to was too poor quality. I have a better and longer recording on Betamax tape somewhere, hopefully one day I will find it in my loft and upload it to RU-vid.

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@billyh88uk 10 лет назад

0:23 is the moment Philip Schofield realises what people are about to see.

@RoonJazz 14 лет назад

I remember this so well. The first time in my life that the news had such a profound effect on me.

@brianstanton5844 Год назад

rem watching this Newsround back in the day and running downstairs to tell my mum & dad

@TPEsprit 13 лет назад

Thank you for uploading this. This is also when I first learned about the STS 51-L disaster. I was just over 5½ at the time and even at that age I clearly remember feeling the significance at the time that it was something really big. That it was something very bad and stood out from the rest of the usual news. I can remember seeing the blue screen showing the rocket and the Newsround logo. It is amazing after all this time to come back and be able to see some of it in retrospect. Thanks

@retrorampage484 3 года назад

With you there. Same age and remember it clearly. I was excited about Christa being a teacher in space.

@TPEsprit 3 года назад

@@retrorampage484 Thank you for your response, I very much appreciate what you say. Challenger still resonates. Whilst it may be acceptable to advance in the human races' ability to travel into space, I always feel a genuine stab of pain whenever I hear of such ventures because (whilst I understand the wish to continue, so that their lives were not lost in vain) I know and understand about the pioneers who were killed along the way and that such excursions can never be considered just a ride out into space. It opens a question; are humans supposed to be traveling far out into space? The loss of the most special and talented Challenger Seven will forever be a huge loss to humankind.

@eamonnca1 13 лет назад

I remember this, this was when I first heard about the disaster. They jerryrigged up a "Newsnight special" on BBC 2 to give "live coverage" of breaking developments, but there was no more information coming in, so it consisted of Tim Furness and Peter Snow doing their best to find stuff to talk about, plenty of "umming" and "amming". I thought "Wouldn't it be silly if news reporters sat around all day trying to find stuff to talk about?" Little did I know how low TV news would sink years later.

@mekonta 12 лет назад

This is where I first heard about the Shuttle tragedy watching this very episode. I remember thinking, it must have just happened minutes ago as there was no other news or programmes reporting it. As soon as this great news programme for kids finished, the Beeb and ITV were flooding with reports and news about it. Sad and tragic it was but quite a scoop kid's programme. Praise to the controllers for not looking down just because it was in a children's slot and letting them run with it.

@madabbafan 3 года назад

Truth be told back then Newsround was trusted far more by the BBC news team than they do now and the studio was up and ready to go where as the main news room wasn't. Newsround broke a number of other major stories for the same reason.

@eamonnca1 Год назад

@@madabbafan Yup. The death of John Lennon was another one that springs to mind

@dan_grey 17 лет назад

Back in those day the news studios weren't manned outside of the regular bulletins, so the Newsround studio would have been the only operating news studio.

@memoir4you 13 лет назад

I was eleven years old when this happened and it was a shocking tragedy, we were asked by our headmaster at school to write letters of condolences to President Reagan, even though we were in the U.K.

@97channel 13 лет назад

Incredible. The BBC wouldn't dream, even for a second, of allowing such monumental breaking news to be handled by the children's department nowdays. They'd be the last people to touch it.

@Bungle2010 2 года назад

Given that this was the major news story of that day, and this was the first news programme to be broadcast after it happened, why wouldn't it have been on here first?

@robertlindo8058 2 года назад

This was the first time I heard of the challenger explosion. I was watching it with my dad. We were both shocked when it came on the television, just couldn't believe it. I became very sad and emotional as the realisation sank in. I never thought I would see anything like that in my life.

@0AndyC0 8 лет назад

From memory, BBC1 did go to a 'proper' newsflash straight after Newsround. I think this is also the first time that anyone in the UK saw clips from or became aware of the 'rolling news' channel idea from America.

@betaman7988 7 лет назад

But surely Breakfast Time and TV-AM used rolling news. Not as an entire channel but at a morning slot

@richtw 6 лет назад

Nope. It was news on the hour (or maybe half hour), and various interviews and other features between. Definitely no news ticker graphics or anything like that - just a small unobtrusive clock (analogue of course!) in the bottom corner of the screen.

@LUNATIC75 16 лет назад

I was sitting in front of the TV and couldn't believe it and called my parents in from the kitchen. This was how we all found out about Challenger and I get a strange feeling watching this very same clip on RU-vid all these years later. Newsround didn't pull too many punches back then.

@Roryvhs 2 года назад

The song at 0:15 is Borderline by Madonna.

@thenewageriseth Год назад

Thought so. I thought it was random a few seconds of the intro played before it was shut off... 🤔

@stellastey 13 лет назад

i remember watching this after school,a sad day.

@mrblags1 6 лет назад

i remember this, I was sat eating my tea when it came on, I hurt my tooth on a hard piece of burger. never thought I'd see the clip again.

@octaviussludberry9016 3 года назад

Was it one of those tinned Goblin burgers or a nice gristley Birds Eye one?

@ShelbySPB 12 лет назад

The Challenger disaster was a sad day for Americans. What I learned from this clip, however, was that the UK ripped off our Cookie Monster. Explain yourselves!

@octaviussludberry9016 3 года назад

It's from a show called Wizbit, which was devised by the UK's premier TV magician, Paul Daniels.

@Perranporth 15 лет назад

Yes, I was watching 'The Really Wild Show', and my mum came in from watching another channel to say she had seen this newsflash about a rocket blowing up. Then this came on minutes later showing the frankly unbelievable sight of the Shuttle disintegrating. By 1986, space flight in the Shuttle seemed routine, even boring - and it had to take a tragedy like this to make the world show interest again.

@charleyfarley5065 2 года назад

I was seven when I saw this newsreel. It will always stay with me.

@jordanjay5901 6 лет назад

Amazing scoop for Newsround. You know what’s weird? All my adult life whenever space travel has been mentioned, I have related the story of seeing JOHN CRAVEN on the day and time report this tragedy, the first news programme to cover it. I feel foolish, I’ve been misremembering because obviously that’s not JC! Strange how our memories play tricks on us. Roger Finn was obviously very good in the role of JC on this day 😳

@Adrianmillsdesign 2 года назад

Yes I thought the same

@madabbafan Год назад

Thing was in the 80s the BBC trusted newsround far more than now and they did break major stories. This was also partly because the newsround studio was up and running and ready to go where as the main BBC news studio wasn't.

@adcashmo 6 лет назад

First thought the bulletin was cut short. I think that was literally the whole thing though.

@madabbafan 5 лет назад

yes, Newsround ran for its full length. It wasn't the first, or the last time Newsround was the first news programme on the BBC to break a major news story.

@gerryosullivan5956 9 лет назад

re some comments before...there were 2 studios N1 and N2, N2 had newsround all ready to go live but N1 was still getting ready for the six o'clock news, they had no option but to let newsround to break the story...hurrah to newsround (newsround soundmixer that day)

@thomashardcastle7231 5 лет назад

Wow! Cool story! It almost makes it worthwhile all those people shitting themselves as their vessel exploded and shot them back towards the earth, where they would hit the ground at terminal velocity, knowing that they were about to die. Awesome stuff.

@MWRent 4 года назад

@@thomashardcastle7231 Are you Paul's brother?

@thomashardcastle7231 4 года назад

@@MWRent No, I'm the guy who stole your bike.

@MWRent 4 года назад

@@thomashardcastle7231 You're a thief!

@madabbafan 3 года назад

Newsround also was the first to break a number of other stories for the same reason, they were on first in the evening. It sometimes gave the main news programme time to get ready to break in an report in full.

@EricIrl 6 лет назад

Roger Finn still works as a reporter for BBC South Today.

@UncleFeedle 17 лет назад

I was watching ITV at the time. I think it was a live kids programme called 'Splash'. They interrupted it for an ITN newsflash - one of only two newsflashes I'ver ever seen on British television (the other being the Princess Di crash).

@seventensmit 16 лет назад

Weird. Brings back memories. I even remembered it was during Wisbit.

@imrustyokay 5 лет назад

Do you have the full recording?

@MQsCues 15 лет назад

(Sorry, pressed the wrong button - I seem to have marked this as spam by mistake. Very sorry!) Indeed it was "Splash". Since that programme was live, they simply cut to one of the programme's presenters to do the link. I clearly remember having been told that announcers would say "We interrupt this programme for an important news flash", but the Splash presenter said, "We interrupt this programme for an ITN news flash", which I suppose was fitting.

@iixorb Год назад

Aged 13 at the time, I remember this so well. Seeing that blue sky on Philip Schofield’s tiny monitor just before the NewsRound guy said those shocking words. I shouted “Mum Look! The Space Shuttle has just exploded!” and she came rushing in from the kitchen (it was the mid 80s!). As others have said, this was probably the first time that ‘The News’ genuinely shocked us all. I suppose the next time was 9/11.

@JamesBentley1981 14 лет назад

Jeepers, that's terrifying. It's almost like he's announcing four blokes on horseback have pitched up at Television Centre.

@Bazanadu 3 года назад

I remember that morning the news showing icicles on the shuttle. My mother said it didn't look safe. I told her something like they probably know what they are doing... Yeah. To think they were alive and conscious, fighting to gain control - probably all the way down is chilling.

@MrAJR76 12 лет назад

@zemarnah I do too! Remember calling out to my Mum who was in the kitchen... I was nine at the time.

@rajnirvan3336 4 года назад

As an 8 year old I remember when I saw what happened I was shocked to see the shuttle exploded

@Bungle2010 2 года назад

I was 13 at the time, and would have watched this broadcast, and was shocked too, being heavily interested in space, space travel and the Shuttle.

@gerryosullivan5956 9 лет назад

...and forgot to say just as important...the news teams weren't that bothered (like the rest of us ashamedly) with another shuttle launch..but newsround were all over it for their lead story because they were sending up a teacher to space....

@brhodes0 16 лет назад

Roger Finn wasn't my favourite presenter...but jesus christ I had forgotten those hyperactive bongos

@Bazanadu 2 года назад

Interesting that from 00:20 onwards you can see the shuttle launch on Philip's monitor in the bottom left of the screen.

@SpeccyHorace 2 года назад

It's just the Newsround feed he's about to hand over to.

@seventensmit 16 лет назад

I hadn't noticed the break up. You're right, it is a trail for Wizbit. I do remember seeing the breaking news and I remember being in our old living room, seeing the clip of wizbit must have triggered memories of watching it in the same room and confused my brain. How do you know TRWS was on before this? Them's some serious memory skills. Bet you can't remember what colour ankle warmers Michaela was wearing?

@MWRent 4 года назад

Michaela wasn't in TRWS in 1986

@House0fwax 18 лет назад

1986, good lord, was it that long ago ?.

@elfinia 16 лет назад

Poor old Roger Finn looks completely traumatised...all twitchy and bendy. He's Much calmer,cooler and better looking now, on South Today. (not to mention better dressed...that woolly jumper looks as if it's straight out the dirty laundry basket LOL). What a terrible memory for him as the bearer of bad news.

@jcampton1 6 лет назад

According to BBC Genome, Newsround that day was scheduled for 5pm so was it shown at that time or did a director tell Phillip earlier in the afternoon that they were going to Newsround for Breaking News on the explosion?

@betaman7988 6 лет назад

If you look, when Philip Schofield announces the start of newsround his tone changes from light to quite somber halfway through the sentence so i assume it went out off schedule

@williamnightingale2285 3 года назад

It went out on schedule. The shuttle launched at 11.38am local time so 4.38pm GMT. The programme started at 5pm 22 minutes after launch and approx 20 and a half minutes after the explosion. There were no 24 hour news tv channels in the UK back then. ITV broke into their CITV programmes to bring a news flash. Most radio stations would have announced it in their 5pm news bulletins.

@copydeskcat 6 лет назад

Did you ever find this Betamax tape?

@prittstick1ify 13 лет назад

John Craven & Roger Finn were excellent. They presented the CBBC News like the children were really wanting to know what was going on, not like CBBC from the mid 1990s which turned in to humliating rubbish where they presented the children's tv as if the children watching it were stupid. Chris Jarvis and Josie D'arby perfect example of absolutely crap presenters on CBBC

@malcolmbrewis5582 2 года назад

I concur. From what I remember, they showed the children respect by speaking to them intelligently. They didn't overly dumb down news. Though we have more hours of news today, are five minutes of news today as informative as five from forty years ago.?

@jamesmitchell8922 Год назад

Well are you going to do it?

@edmund184 12 лет назад

@ShelbySPB Yep, we admit it. Although your 'All in the Family' was ripped off from our 'Till Death Us Do Part'

@kennethmccrindle3790 11 лет назад

Phillip Schofield looks a lot like Steve Rider when he had the young haor

@TheStarcoMarco 3 года назад

I wonder how kids would react when they saw a rocket getting blast into pieces from television.

@Bungle2010 2 года назад

Well I was 13 at the time, and would have watched this. Shocked and a little distressed is the answer.

@ilikebananassometimes3608 8 лет назад

LOL Could have given us a trigger warning for that Wizbit clip.

@TannersArt 10 лет назад

00:40 Chuggaaconroy?!

@miniroll32 13 лет назад

Newsround really has gone downhill. During the 80's and early 90's, it was real and relevant news simplified for a young audience, whereas now you're just being bombarded with silly graphics and information - mostly irrelevant and to do with 'celebs' lives.

@DoctorMeatDic 5 месяцев назад

Could have sworn I saw this live on Newsround in 1986. Turns out it was just 21 minutes before Newsround came on air. Funny how your memory plays tricks on you.

@Megan-sf5vf 3 года назад

Why the *hell* would anyone think this was appropriate to show 100,000+ children? I'd hope this was at least aimed for a slightly older audience... Also congrats on having the only footage of this.

@Bungle2010 2 года назад

6-17 year-olds. What's the point of a new programme that doesn't show the news, even if it is aimed at children? Especially something as major as this.

@Bungle2010 2 года назад

And this would have been watched by millions, there were only four TV channels at the time. I was 13 when this aired by the way and, Ike a lot of people, this is the first I got to hear about it.

@johndaarteest Год назад

People -including children- were a bit more resilient then?

@SASRISGAY 15 лет назад

That purple blob sounds like the former WWF wrestler Vader.

@madabbafan 14 лет назад

ah the days when Newsround wasn't affraid to report real news unlike the rubbish it covers today like 'Cheryl Cole stubs toe' and 'little girl's lost cat found in the cupbord under the stairs'