First TV

First TV went live on 16th July after being announced last month by Piers Morgan, a co-founder of First News – the award-winning, and only, national children’s newspaper. The Britain’s Got Talent judge announced that the new magazine-style show for young people will be digitally streamed over the internet. Teenagers are connected to a mobile phone or computer for a staggering seven and a half hours a day. The first show will go online this month followed by a series of specials throughout the summer on 6th August, 20th August and 3rd September. 

A fantastic line up of presenters include Charlie McDonnell (YouTube’s biggest blogger in the whole of the UK with 60 million views!), Emma Pollard (who played Lauren in the internet drama KateModern with 2.5m views per week) and roving reporters Nicola and Fran Gleadall – the singing and dancing twins on Your Country Needs You! and The X-Factor.

First TV will be a mixture of news, entertainment, sport, travel, high-profile celebrity interviews, competitions and record breaking attempts – one in each episode. To find out exactly what records were broken involving socks, alphabets and balloons and what happened when First TV’s twins came face to face with Jedward - viewers will have to tune in from mid-July.

Nicky Cox, editor of First News and First TV, said: “First TV is ground-breaking. For too long, older children and teenagers have been poorly served by traditional television channels. We felt it was time to make their own channel just for them! First News is already read by a quarter of the nation’s young people so First TV was the next logical step for us on a digital platform.”

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