This I believe to be the case. Prior to the News Channel closure, Setanta used to use ITV's air time for live football in Scotland on Sundays. This took the ITVNC off the air in Scotland. This was apparently a trial which has now been extended across the rest of the country, just you don't notice at the moment because the News Channel has gone.
Although broadcasting on Channel 34, I believe Setanta use ITV4 downtime (former ITVNC), the space to be utilised by CiTV. So expect no CiTV service Sunday afternoons during the football season.
But ITV News Channel's placeholder is still on Freeview isn't it? the channel's still there!
Re-tuning my freeview service found nothing. Has anyone got a screen grab or video of the current.. thing on ITV news now? I know it's a testcard of somesort...
But ITV News Channel's placeholder is still on Freeview isn't it? the channel's still there!
Re-tuning my freeview service found nothing. Has anyone got a screen grab or video of the current.. thing on ITV news now? I know it's a testcard of somesort...
There's nothing on channel 81. It's blank. Empty.
There used to be a video holding screen there before 6pm, and an MHEG after 6pm. Neither of them are there now. My Freeview box just display black and that's it.
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Neil Jones posted:
BOL I0X posted:
James Vertigan posted:
But ITV News Channel's placeholder is still on Freeview isn't it? the channel's still there!
Re-tuning my freeview service found nothing. Has anyone got a screen grab or video of the current.. thing on ITV news now? I know it's a testcard of somesort...
There's nothing on channel 81. It's blank. Empty.
There used to be a video holding screen there before 6pm, and an MHEG after 6pm. Neither of them are there now. My Freeview box just display black and that's it.
And if you re-scan your Freeview box, you'll find 81 is now occupied by BBC Parliament, which has moved from 85 to tidy up the EPG a little, and give it more prominence.
CiTV will be on air between 6am and 6pm. Compared to the BBC's children's channels, it will be noisy, anarchic - the buzzword is mad - a return to the kind of brash children's ITV of more than a decade ago when it was run by Dawn Airey.
Sounds like this new channel should be better than I was imagining. They may actually be trying to put up a fight with it.
The article states that they are aiming at 4-9. To me this is too small, especially as most kids will be excluded. I personally prefer kids channels to be orientated to the family, rather than just a demographic of kids.
CiTV will be on air between 6am and 6pm. Compared to the BBC's children's channels, it will be noisy, anarchic - the buzzword is mad - a return to the kind of brash children's ITV of more than a decade ago when it was run by Dawn Airey.
How are they going to do that with a voice-over and a set of bad graphics???
Are they likely to have studio based presenter links at all?
I had always assumed that that would be the intention.
I'm surprised that it's still gonna be "CiTV", I really expected it to be something like "ITV Kids" (and the strand on ITV1 to be renamed accordingly).
Or, failing that, for there to at least be a totally new CiTV logo, in which the "ITV" bit is written in the same font etc as all other ITVplc branding. (after all, the "BBC" bit of the CBBC and CBeebies logos is the proper normal BBC logo, so I find it odd that the "ITV" bit of "CiTV" isn't).