BTV KIDS

The project ‘Versió BTV’ opened our broadcast station to more than sixty primary schools. On March 4th 2016, hundreds of school kids (8 - 14 years) joined this full day of tv and radio broadcasts made by and dedicated to the youngest ones. From 9am to 9pm, they presented, recorded and edited everything BTV would do on a normal day: from news bulletins to culture magazines. Among others, they interviewed the President of Catalonia, Mr Carles Puigdemont, and the president of Football Club Barcelona, Mr Josep Maria Bartomeu. The kids, families, schools and institutions contributed to make this a very successful experience, which also offered professionals at BTV the chance to do things in a different way. Journalists, directors and producers realised that, if they were given enough space, children had a completely different approach that they could learn from. Not to mention the fact that the whole experience generated a very good atmosphere in the newsroom. ‘We should do this again’, said everyone. The idea behind ‘Versió BTV’ is to open our doors to different sectors of the society, to democratise it and let them be in charge for one day. BTV is already preparing a second edition of this project, this time with seniors.