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[Arran]

There's a lot of information on Wikipedia that would only be found on enthusiast websites 25 years ago. Like details of different models of buses and trains.

Sometimes I wonder if the information is only half of the matter. The source is the other half.

[Arran]

It's true that the BBC had the programming infrastructure in place for Children's BBC way back in the 1970s. It would have been interesting in the 1990s if Children's BBC hadn't been launched when satellite and cable channels were making their presence in the children's programmes scene. Especially...

[Arran]

My theory is that Children's BBC would not have existed without Children's ITV.

Children's ITV was created to fulfil a purpose - a national on-screen brand and a unified output in a fragmented regionalised TV network.

The weekday afternoon children's programmes on BBC1 were...

[Arran]

It's all over for Children's ITV / CITV.

Sunrise: Monday 3 January 1983
Sunset: Friday 10 April 2026

I wonder if anybody has watched the first and last programmes.

I missed out on the 'golden' age of Children's ITV from the Thames and TVS era, apart from...

[Arran]

CITV is about to disappear forever!

The very last CITV programme block on ITV2 will be on Friday 10 April. It also appears to be the end of the CITV brand....