CiTV Presentation

TCC was the only kids channel at one time, so I guess it's not suprising, CBBC & CITV didn't have their own channels until years later. I know they definately showed Byker Grove, I've seen clips of it on YouTube with their DOG in the corner.

The CITV Channel didn't launch until 2006, but Carlton briefly launched their own kids channel in the late 90s:

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/carlton_kids.html

There also used to be a breakfast time strand on LivingTV called 'Tiny Living', which according to Wiki evolved from a strand on TCC called 'Tiny TCC'.

I think that teen orientated channel they did after TCC, Trouble, showed it for a little while too.

It was me who recorded and uploaded that clip. Wiki is near enough correct.

TCC UK closed down on 3rd April 1998, and I think it caught Cable & Wireless by surprise, on the Saturday it had been replaced by CNBC and TV Travel Shop, on cable I seem to remember they showed this for part of the morning and then switched to the Cable Channel Guide. That stayed for a few days, and was replaced by a version of TCC which did not have any adverts or promotions telling you the exact time the shows were on at. There is a strong possibility it was TCC Nordic, there was also a strong possibility it could have tapes that were played out by Cable & Wireless, there were the odd days that tapes did pause or rewind on air, or bothered to transmit at all. Needless to say this was all short lived, Cable & Wireless had a major shake up of channels by Autumn 1998 as TCC in latter form was ditched for good and replaced by the Cable Channel Guide. Oddly enough Trouble and Bravo were dumped at the same time too.

Thames had a stake in the channel until the mid 90s. Central owned a substantial stake at some point which led to more content from them (along with the FilmFair produced BBC stop animation shows which Central also owned at the time).

I think the replacement TCC just survived into early October of 1998. We got Cable & Wireless at the end of September that year and I only remember seeing it for a few days before it disappeared.

Those early satellite/cable days are probably worth a thread on their own, I have quite a few videos back home of various Cable & Wireless broadcasting from 1999-2000, recorded during bored childhood weekends/holidays including various channel hoppings through every network which some might find interesting. Some of the music they used to play over the channel guide I'd love to hear again, I think it was from an album called 'Cities' or something similar? They used to advertise the album the music was from on the guide itself, some of it I still remember really well despite being over 17 years (christ, really?) since I heard it.

None of it is sourced. I've removed that one as you're right. It didn't start until four years after TCC closed, which makes them airing it impossible, even on the Nordic feed which lasted a couple of years longer.



EDIT: And now someone else has removed the entire programme list. Most of them were plausible from the original dates, but I noticed Motormouth was listed - that was one of ITV's Saturday morning shows, and repeats of such shows make no sense, especially on a different channel where they won't have the rights to the same cartoons.

Although Family Channel did show edited repeats of Motormouth series 4 a few years after it had ended.

Ah. I suppose they were these:


Must of been why it was thought it was on TCC.

I'm pretty sure TCC Nordic had local branding and presentation. I think what may have happened is that C&W had an agreement to cover up to October, and having had the plug pulled unexpectedly demanded that Flextech serve out their agreement, which they did by shoving out a few weeks worth on tape (with a generic version of the presentation used by TCC Nordic). In the early days of cable quite a few channels sent out whole weeks/fortnights worth of content out at once on tape, which was literally played out at the local headend.

I agree, discussion of TCC/90s Cable would make an interesting thread of its own.

I wish people would stop saying would make an interesting thread and just start one

Wasn't that what Bravo was at one time? Just tapes sent to cable companies rather than an actual broadcast channel.