10 Facts About CITV

CITV is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc.

In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the demise of in-vision continuity.

CITV doesn't have a +1 simulcast, unlike the rest of ITV's portfolio of channels.

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.

Grace went even further and complained to the regulator ITC, claiming CITV was unlikely to fulfil its range of programming commitments in the following year.

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Emma Tennant, the then controller of CITV, told the Showcomotion conference "The commissioning budgets for all channels next year are going to be smaller, except CITV, which is growing – but it will not necessarily spend the additional money on original commissions".

Mini CITV is hosted by a group of spacemen-like beings called the Minis, who oversee presentation items on the channel.

On 22 February 2016, CITV extended its on-air hours, the channel now finishes at 21:00 rather than the earlier 18:00.

Mini CITV, which was launched on 2 November 2009, was the slot that housed CITV's pre-school programming.

ITV broadcast Mini CITV 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.