CBBC Birthday thread

Well I was asking as a starter to keep the memories flowing rather than just wanting to look it up!

One thing that that website doesn't make entirely clear is what format school holidays took outside of the main summer holidays, when did it start, what branding/studio they used, did they do all holidays or just summer initially?

Also Am I right in thinking that back in the 90s before Studio 9, Saturday mornings before Going Live/L&K would have been the broom cupboard and Sunday mornings would have been Studio A?

There's certainly footage of Andi Peters in the Broomcupboard introducing Parallel 9.

At one time the programmes before Going Live were introduced by Trev and Simon from around TC7.

Is it me or does that page crash in Internet Explorer? It's failed to load several times.

It does load eventually in IE11 but it has issues in Firefox as well. I think the problem is, regardless of the brower, because it's trying to find, by my reckoning, 61 YouTube thumbnails. It only takes one that doesn't load to hang the entire loading of the page.

No problems for me in Chrome.

Gong by the clips on YT that design (the penultimate one with, and the one after the "definitive" neon one that they recreated on the anniversary show) was launched around Feb/March 1993. It's in place on that clip of Noel apologising for his House Party being cancelled on 06/03/93 but it's still the neon design a couple of weeks earlier on 18/02/93:





This design seemed to stay in place (with multiple changes to the surround on the TV and various tat on the wall behind Andi/Toby) until some point in early 1994, possibly Easter, when the "hand punching through the wall" design was launched.



This was the result of a competition to design a broom cupboard, but it didn't last very long at all as we all know...

As pointed out Going Live initially had "Saturday Starts Here" before hand which had links from the likes of Peter Simon and Trev & Simon, and then the last year of that was the cast of what later became Radio Roo. All that got scrapped in 1991 and for a while it was the standard announcer over the CBBC ident, then at some point in 1992 they started doing live broom cupboard continuity on Saturday mornings as you say.

Sundays were always Studio A (although until about 1993 were restricted to a few months of the year when the OU wasn't running) but from around the same point that the Saturday morning broom cupboard launched there was a short sequence on BBC1 before Breakfast with Frost which was done from the broom cupboard before handing over to BBC2. These two strands were later branded the "Weekend Breakfast Show" as seen here...

I wish the 2007 bed would surface.

I dont think I saw any clips of the Yellow and Black (late 90's) idents, I think thats one of the earliest pres I have seen that got me interested in TV Pre. Very simplistic. I loved the close down and the mashups towards the end of the era.

There were - in the title sequence and later on in the programme.

Does anyone know where I can find a clean version of the close used on CBBC's 30th, also used in the early 90s? The music before the 'Tell that aardvark it's a wrap' ident?

Edit: As heard in this clip

Nice high quality stereo version here: