wknd@stv

It looks like stv are bringing back Children's TV to weekend mornings, with wknd@stv, starting with a 3 hour slot next Saturday at 9:55am, with 1 or 1.5 hour slots at 9:25am on Saturdays & Sundays after that.

The following programme description is taken from digiguide:

Cartoons, fun, games and lots of laughter to set you up for the day - wknd@stv is the place to be!


I may be wrong, but I seem to remember stv showing other programmes in recent weekend citv slots (which aren't on at the moment), so is this programme being shown to fulfill their quota, or are they actually increasing children's output, in a reversal of what itv have done.

Hi,
I'm not sure what's going on... but it certainly won't be 3 hours of original high quality UK children's programmes! That would be business madness and require HUGE time effort and resources to do meaningfully.

I suspect STV are simply throwing a bunch of cartoons and other bought-in or repeated programmes together and touching them up with some branding or links.

STV are only prepared to make local programmes above and beyond their legal requirement where the ENTIRE cost is met by sponsors... I doubt if this is happening here!

Also, remember they're refusing to show the FA Cup... though they claim that's a business decision. By doing their own thing cheaply on Saturday mornings, they can replace the FA Cup games in the afternoon with the timeshifted repeat of Dancing on Ice.

I must be honest - I'm sceptical about whether their plan makes business sense unless it's just about branding or links.

I'd imagine this is just the latest stage of the row between STV and ITV. They might also hope it persuades the government or Ofcom to swing in their favour at a later date. But certainly it isn't being done because STV want to fulfil their PSB potential.

So I guess it will be repeats of How 2, Fun House, Art Attack and those 10 minute Looney Tunes cartoons that turn up every so often.

If it is, I'm moving to Scotland.

Or add STV through Sky's Add Channels.

YET people are forgetting that STV did have a kids department and made a tone of shows, there still partly own an number of cartoons, which has been broadcast on the sunday slot

there also made a crap, but yet very good kids shwo in 2001 which was an hour long on saturday and sunday called Inside out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Out_(TV_series)

Ditto

just to point out

STV (smg) production does infact make a lot of kids shows for ITV and BBC!

also this may explain some:

http://www.stvplc.tv/content/mediaassets/doc/SPEECH%20.pdf

Not forgetting Wemyss Bay 902101 with Grant Stott and Arlene Stuart .

It was a figure of speech, my friend.

I know, just trying to be helpful for some that wouldn't of thought of it.