CiTV Presentation

Oh dear, Pinky, Elmyra and The Brain- I seem to remember most of that being thrown out in a Saturday afternoon slot, as if they knew how dire it was but were contracted to show it, so just chucked it out where nobody would see it.

But it's Pick of the Day, that means it must be good! I never used to pay attention to that really, I'd just stay on CiTV until Sabrina came on.

I think he was meaning school holidays, not bank holidays.

Only once that happened, Pinky, Elmyra and The Brain 12 episodes, were all given slots during 2001 in the mornings etc. while the last one on Saturday, November 24, 2001 was given that afternoon slot at 2.20

What is strange about that day is, it had cartoons from 13.30 until 16.30, ontop of SMTV/CDUK in the morning, So I wonder what it was covering, or replacing to build up the hours. The last time that happened I think was in 1998 when one Saturday there whole afternoon of kids programmes - NO CITV, due to the world cup in France

Only thing I could think of is they'd have lost some time on 9/11 and perhaps in the subsequent days so perhaps that was a last minute slot to ensure they met their yearly quota for childrens content.

It wasn't "lost" - it was actually shifted to ITV2. But ITV2 (and ITV1 for that matter) were not available on Sky so ITV2 was only on OnDigital/ITV Digital at that time and had next to no viewership. So technically it was "lost".

Now that would be fascinating to see. Would there still have been links from the studio I wonder, or did the programmes just go out on their own?

I assume GMTV broadcast news programmes on the weekend after 9/11, so yes they probably did have some childrens' quota to make up on ITV1.

What normally went out on GMTV2 (ITV2) at the weekends when the kids programmes were on GMTV? Did they just simulcast GMTV like they did when ITV2 & GMTV2 launched in 1999?

GMTV2 began a simulcast with CITV channel when it launched in 2006, and it came under the CITV branding from then. The ITV2 slot moved to ITV4 in 2008 and lasted until 2010.

When the ITV News Channel moved to Freeview multiplex D3&4, GMTV enforced their hours and simulcast there too if I remember correctly, but by the end of 2003 they had struck a deal with GMTV for those hours.

As ITV Breakfast they are still entitled to their hours on the CITV channel, which is why there's always a junction at 9:25 and why the weekend simulcasts with ITV1 end at that time.

ITV3 never had any GMTV hours. I distinctly remember one weekend (probably around early 2005), before ITV4 existed, the F1 coverage being on ITV3 on Saturday morning, while an extended GMTV went out in exchange for the hours on the Sunday.


Edit: this video suggests in 2003 that GMTV2 was pre-school kids programmes every day by then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsZ1gENpL1U

Wouldn't explain it though as GMTV was a separate entity with their own requirements. Either way though I'd have thought the regulator would take a common sense approach to it.

Could have been hours for something else entirely, might not even have been a shifted GMTV slot but an agreement for ITV1 to show some programmes normally on GMTV. The F1 season didn't finish that late in the year then, although the last race was Japan and with no hurry to give the time back to GMTV quickly, that could explain it.

I think 623058 was implying though it was a CITV broadcast rather than a GMTV broadcast.

I don't know about that, but I do remember seeing 9/11 through the prism of ITV's coverage, having tuned in for CITV, and instead saw the ghastly scenes from New York. I well remember the occasional aston popping up guiding viewers to ITV2 for CITV - as a terrestrial viewer myself, I didn't make the switch.