BE
do you think cbbc will celebrate their 20th birthday?
i think they are not going to bother.
i think they are not going to bother.
IS
They might have plumped for next September to do something special. 21 is traditionally a more important age than 20
RU
russnet
Founding member
Agreed on both points but then if the kids of today aren't interested then why did ITV waste 2 hours of airtime back in early 2003 to celebrate CITV's 20th birthday which had a mixture of presenters and programmes of the last 20 years.
No harm in celebrating though. It's certainly a milestone.
No harm in celebrating though. It's certainly a milestone.
NJ
Probably because Children's ITV was first (on air anyway) so it was worth celebrating for that fact alone, though it wasn't until 1987 that the links were live anyway, as opposed to CBBC which has been live links-wise (bar Breakfast in recent years but that's clearly obviously not live) since CBBC launched.
Neil Jones
Founding member
russnet posted:
Agreed on both points but then if the kids of today aren't interested then why did ITV waste 2 hours of airtime back in early 2003 to celebrate CITV's 20th birthday which had a mixture of presenters and programmes of the last 20 years
Probably because Children's ITV was first (on air anyway) so it was worth celebrating for that fact alone, though it wasn't until 1987 that the links were live anyway, as opposed to CBBC which has been live links-wise (bar Breakfast in recent years but that's clearly obviously not live) since CBBC launched.
BO
I can never understand why its 21, not 20.
russnet posted:
Agreed on both points but then if the kids of today aren't interested then why did ITV waste 2 hours of airtime back in early 2003 to celebrate CITV's 20th birthday which had a mixture of presenters and programmes of the last 20 years.
No harm in celebrating though. It's certainly a milestone.
No harm in celebrating though. It's certainly a milestone.
I can never understand why its 21, not 20.
JB
CITV may have had some idea that as a live-links enterprise it didn't have much time left, it's certainly all off tape now which is pretty dull.
russnet posted:
Agreed on both points but then if the kids of today aren't interested then why did ITV waste 2 hours of airtime back in early 2003 to celebrate CITV's 20th birthday which had a mixture of presenters and programmes of the last 20 years.
No harm in celebrating though. It's certainly a milestone.
No harm in celebrating though. It's certainly a milestone.
CITV may have had some idea that as a live-links enterprise it didn't have much time left, it's certainly all off tape now which is pretty dull.
TV
There was one occasion in 1983 when TSW opted out of the CITV links; not sure why this was. HTV got Isla St Clair as usual but we got Roger Shaw. At least he was live.
TE
CITV may have had some idea that as a live-links enterprise it didn't have much time left, it's certainly all off tape now which is pretty dull.
Probably partly that. I can imagine the team in Birmingham would know by 2003 they weren't going to be allowed to provide the service much longer, so wanted to go out with a bang. That, and it was the next best thing Central could do to celebrating their own 21st birthday, given they would never be allowed to mark the event of the whole station.
tesandco
Founding member
JB posted:
CITV may have had some idea that as a live-links enterprise it didn't have much time left, it's certainly all off tape now which is pretty dull.
Probably partly that. I can imagine the team in Birmingham would know by 2003 they weren't going to be allowed to provide the service much longer, so wanted to go out with a bang. That, and it was the next best thing Central could do to celebrating their own 21st birthday, given they would never be allowed to mark the event of the whole station.
NF
Someone may know the answer to this... i'll give it a go... it may even be imagination lol.
Did CITV have regional variations in its programmes (in at least the early 90's). I seem to remember the Krankies show wasn't TX'd in the TVS region at some point. ?
Probably my imagination... I was 10 at the time lol.
James
Did CITV have regional variations in its programmes (in at least the early 90's). I seem to remember the Krankies show wasn't TX'd in the TVS region at some point. ?
Probably my imagination... I was 10 at the time lol.
James