ITV plans "family of digital channels"

Well I think that they easily have enough to fill ITV Kids. They've got loads of old stuff, full editions of SM:tv, Ministry of Mayhem Extra, etc. Also some of the Telly Tots things. I don't think they'll rebrand CiTV either - having the channel called ITV Kids allows them to show CiTV branded things and also programmes for younger children. They can easily have CiTV branding on the 'ITV Kids' channel.

ITV3 sounds interesting too. However, I think they need to get their skates on. Now that they've decided that ITV3 will be happening they should buy the one last remaining space on the Freeview Crown Castle multiplex.

I don't think ITV own the rights to SM:TV, do they? Oh, wait, unless Granada owns Blaze, which was suggested a while ago.

seeing as the NC has been the ITV Rugby Channel of late I wouldn't be totally amazed if that was dropped in favour of one of the new ones, especially on Freeview. I hope it isn't though...

Technically they probabally would have the rights. I believe Granada co-produce the show anyway. I doubt it would be that hard for them to show odl editions of SM:TV anyway, and I think that would be a good idea and there's probabally demand for it. They might have to make some edits becuase of rights (SM:TV showed Scooby-Doo a while back, but the BBC have rights to that now), as well as cutting out the CITV trailers, but most of the show should be left intact. When ITV Kids comes close to launching, I will certinally be seding them an email suggesting that they show old SM:TVs. I wonder if they'd show the CD:UKs as well, as back then the two were effectivly the same show, and it wouldn't feel right if they didn't

Just because they've got them doesn't automatically mean that they're going to show them. I mean I presume they've still got *picks random programme out the air, not shown for a bit* Starfinder, for example, or the Christmas episode of MPAA not shown in the recent four series megarun.



Sure they can but why should they? They've already got a brand of ten (technically twenty) years standing that's short and relatively well known for those its aimed at, why complicate the matter even further by shoving "ITV Kids" over it? Having a CiTV Channel alliterates as well, more memorable. ITV Kids just sounds clumsy and so wrong.

So they'll probably say "that's it for now on CiTV but turn over to the ITV Kids Channel where you can see episode 53* of My Parents Are Aliens where Brian and Sophie shag each other senseless for three days and then try to get Josh and Lucy to copulate with each other in the school hall." Well, okay maybe not but you get the idea

*only 52 eps of MPAA have been made

Again, only skimming (god im lazy), it would mean 1 24hr channel, and various time shared channels. And, again, I stress just get rid of some of the shopping channels, news, and they good have some 12hour channels, or do what the beeb do.

BBC 1 same times as ITV 1
BBC 2 same times as ITV 2
BBC 3 same times as ITV 3
CBBC same times as ITV Kids/Citv

It would work quite well as part of the freeview lineup, also ssomething would launch from C4 and five if were lucky, but i doubt DTT has all the space.

Launching a free station on a subsrcibtion based platform wouldnt work well IMO. Because, I'm sure most of you do, ignore these channels. When we got cable, we gradually stopped watching BBC/ITV/4/5 because I'd rather be watching nickelodeon or whatever was there. They'd get viewers upon launch, because people that arn't interested want to see what the fuss is all about, but ratings would slip therefore freeview would be the best place to put them.

Now having CiTV on itv kids would just be plain confusing. I could imagine them giving the section a name if it went out on both, as nick l8r and studio disney, but to have CiTV and itv kids would confuse everyone.

At the moment it is called CiTV and shows CiTV branded programmes, and programmes for younger children.

And you even put children, not younger kids, as thats what CiTV is, and this is Britain, why sould all of our channels be americanised, at least not before they buy up companies!

Although with many of their shows CITV would probably have to pay a repeat fee to the performers, even if they do own the rights.

Obvioulsy that's inevitable, with any programme (I remember reading David Jason gets something like £10,000 for each BBC Only Fools repeat). I would like to see old SM:TVs repeated, and I'm sure there's many others whow ould as well.

i think itv3 owt to concentrate more on public service television than itv1 does allowing everyone to see regional programme perhaps have phone-ins and discussion programme and perhaps at seven something to rival channel 4 news with a programme looking at the last 24 hours news.
You never know it just might work.

Just been catching up on ITV's new channels and reading this new stuff:



It says that ITV3 will likely be GPlus. I thought GPlus was going to be ITV Gold, with ITV3 being another new channel, but looks like Gold is now (or maybe) called 3 instead.

It also mentions about ITV2 moving to GPlus slot on the EPG (118), which is good. Gplus (Or itv3 as it may be known) will have room on 119 or 120 as these gaps are free as with most Sky channels, they get 2 more EPG numbers left available. Actually, ITV3 may go on 120, as 119 could be saved for ITV1+1 or ITV2+1, as they were talk about +1 channels.

Confusing... Irish viewers will have ITV3, but no ITV1 (UTV branding instead) or ITV2 (for some reason, we're not allowed have it in the Republic...)