In 2004, presentation of CChildren's ITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the demise of in-vision continuity.
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17 Facts About Children's ITV
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CChildren's ITV doesn't have a +1 simulcast, unlike the rest of Children's ITV's portfolio of channels.
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On Thursdays, the ITV regions were able to broadcast whatever programmes they wished; many non-children's programmes appeared, such as Looney Tunes.
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The 1993 invitation to tender for the provision of the Children's ITV service specified a minimum number of high quality trailers that the successful applicant must produce over the term of the contract.
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Around the same time, the Children's ITV name was changed to CITV, having been used in some form or another since the previous year.
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Grace went even further and complained to the regulator ITC, claiming CChildren's ITV was unlikely to fulfil its range of programming commitments in the following year.
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Emma Tennant, the then controller of CChildren's ITV, told the Showcomotion conference "The commissioning budgets for all channels next year are going to be smaller, except CChildren's ITV, which is growing – but it will not necessarily spend the additional money on original commissions".
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In early 2004, ITV finally confirmed it was planning to launch a children's channel, but as a joint venture.
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Charles Allen, chief executive of Children's ITV plc, did not believe in Children's ITV creating a new channel as it was already an over-populated market, with talk being held with Nickelodeon and Disney.
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The plans were dropped 12 months later with Children's ITV instead using its own branding, and using spare Daytime capacity on new Children's ITV4, channel being launch in the autumn of 2005.
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Children's ITV said We just got to the point of thinking that it was more sustainable for us to do it ourselves.
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Mini CChildren's ITV is hosted by a group of spacemen-like beings called the Minis, who oversee presentation items on the channel.
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On 22 February 2016, CChildren's ITV extended its on-air hours, the channel now finishes at 21:00 rather than the earlier 18:00.
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Mini CChildren's ITV, which was launched on 2 November 2009, was the slot that housed CChildren's ITV's pre-school programming.
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Children's ITV broadcast Mini CChildren's ITV on weekend mornings, there was a block called The Fluffy Club between 2008 and 2010 on weekend mornings that housed preschool programmes and featured a puppet baby chick in between programmes.
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CChildren's ITV channel launched with a full-day average of 33,000 viewers and a 2.
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On 6 January 2013, the CChildren's ITV Channel received its highest viewing figures to date: Danger Mouse, which was shown as part of the Old Skool Weekend to celebrate CChildren's ITV's 30th anniversary, which attracted 578,000 viewers.
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