UK television special
Children in Need 2006 was a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for Children in Need. It culminated in a live broadcast on BBC One on the evening of Friday 17 November and was hosted by Terry Wogan, Natasha Kaplinsky, Fearne Cotton and Chris Moyles. The voice-over reading out money raised at various points was Alan Dedicoat. On average, the broadcast brought in 7.72m viewers and raised a total of £18,300,392 by the closing minute.
Official single.
Emma Bunton recorded the official single for 2006's appeal. The Baby Spice recorded a cover of Petula Clark's 60s classic "Downtown" especially for the charity. The single peaked at Number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Regional Outside Broadcasts.
Each region hosted an events in various locations around the UK. The main programme would return to these events at various points throughout the night and give people a more local idea of where the money was going.
The locations were:
BBC Wales, BBC Scotland and BBC Northern Ireland hosted their own telethons separate from the main one. These were from:
Totals.
The following are totals with the times they were announced on the televised show.
The most recent total shown for the 2006 appeal was shown on the official website on 24 June 2007 at 18:40 GMT as £30,194,659
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