BBC slowly giving up on CBBC

what about DAYTIME
BBC started that first then ITV followed them!

Not technically! ITV always filled up the afternoon schedule long before the BBC started doing this. And even when Schools were still being broadcast, during the term breaks, ITV would fill 9.25 write through to lunchtime, whereas BBC would just show a few children's programmes between approximately 9,30 and 11.00am

I remember the See-Saw type programmes - werent they on BBC2 at lunchtimes? 1985 sounds about the right time I was watching!

Yes they were lunchtimes, but in Holy Week 1985 they scrapped the afternoon Play School and introduced See-Saw type programmes ( Bertha, Lay On Five, Caterpillar Trail, Mop and Smiff and Whizz ). I think this was when they started showing Play School Hello ( or Hallo ) Again! on a Sunday.

I remember Bertha and I think I remember Mop and Smiff (were they a cat and dog?) Cant say I remember others you mention. TBH I think I watched more ITV programmes like Rainbow and Playbox. Even aged 5 I was more an ITV viewer than the BBC

Caterpillar Trail was a nature type programme with Stuart Bradley, Lay on Five was a Floella Benjamin outlet, and Whizz was a robot who solved puzzles in space played by Kate Copstick.

I know it is / was being shown on the CBBC channel, but is Grange Hill coming back to BBC One?

And slightly separately, IMO it's time they laid Blue Peter to rest. It seems the more trendy they try to make it the more it becomes cringeworthy. I can't help thinking the fact it's been moved around days so much is the beginning of the end for it anyway...

Its still very popular though. I agree its cringeworthy, especially some of the presenters, but I don't think its time has passed.

I read that they've burried a new box under the Millenium Dome. If they have that will be interesting digging that up...

Schools programmes on ITV moved to the 9:30am slot as part of the increased daytime hours introduced in October 1972, from which time afternoon programmes were a given all year round.

But for the first couple of years, it seems the morning hours were not filled during school holidays. By 1978/79, nearly all regions brought out Sesame Street and Big Blue Marble etc. to fill the two-and-a-half hours before midday. Yet surprisingly, recent TV Times uploads to MHP have revealed that as late as 1981, some regions like Ulster opted to "stay in bed" until noon during school holidays.

Yes, according to www.grangehill.com And I certainly hope so, because this series of GH has seen a change of pace with a new producer, a return to grittier storylines and the death of a long-standing favourite.

Yet it is hidden away opposite Neighbours on the CBBC channel with zero promotion and the obligatory DOG (which I accept the target audience won't care about, since they've been brainwashed into accepting such things as normal).

really? Is that hidden away off BBC one too. I really don't understand CBBC, surely Byker and Grance Hill would be some of the more expensive shoes to produce so they'd want them on full show.