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The pioneer of a broadcasting genre - Youth Television - Janet Street-Porter brought to the first multimedia generation a greater sense of intimacy and accessibility. Her programmes were characterised by the unconventional television techniques of mixing current affairs and lifestyle features, supplemented with information running ticker-tape fashion at the bottom of the screen or footage running alongside the presenter in vision.

The affect this sense of informality had in the more conventional area of news presentation could be seen by the success of Channel 5 News : Kirsty Young striding around the newsroom while facts roll off the graphic display.

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Born Janet Bull in Fulham, London, to an electrical engineer father and a school dinner lady mother, she married student Tim Street-Porter while they were at The Architectural Association. After leaving architecture school in the mids, Street-Porter worked as a freelance journalist and, in , was offered a job as editorial assistant on Petticoat magazine, writing about design.

Within nine months she was poached by the Daily Mail , where she became a columnist billed as the 'Voice of Youth' writing about fashion. She later joined the London Evening Standard as fashion editor, but pretty soon she was doing radio work, and in helped launch the London radio station LBC. LWT 's ten-minute-long series of offbeat programmes, Paint Box , a combination of wild images and new music, and Border TV 's Bliss Channel 4, , a dizzy mixture of rock music, star chatter and fashion, were to be the forerunners of Street-Porter 's revolutionary Network 7 Channel 4, Network 7 was youth television's electronic Sunday supplement, a hectic, self-conscious blitz of visual invention.

In its two-hour midday slot, aimed at to year-olds, it was perhaps the most contentious youth programme of its time. Broadcast live from a debris-strewn Dockland warehouse, the 'make facts fun' programme featured a group of unknown but eager young researchers her 'tellybrats' , who presented their own material on a wide variety of issues cosmetic surgery, bull fighting, drugs, speed-climbing, sex in China, etc.

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BBC2 's Def II was something of a youth channel within a channel, presenting a collection of shows on current affairs Reportage , music Rapido , fashion, travel Rough Guide and other elements of contemporary culture. Despite its flip MTV -style of presentation and fast-moving on-screen factual information, the slot was criticised for its patronising approach to youth culture: not crediting British youth with being intelligent enough to hold the shortest of attention spans.

Moreover, the new wave facets of youth TV programming - as exemplified by Def II - was by this time commonplace in mainstream television. During this period at the BBC , her strong accent became the focus of caricature and her pronunciation of the word 'youth' led to the popular phrase 'Yoof TV'.