Wakey! Wakey!

Wakey! Wakey!

CITV is a British children's morning programming block on ITV2 and former free-to-air channel owned by ITV plc. CITV, then Children's ITV, launched on 3 January 1983 as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 6–12. It replaced the earlier Watch It! branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio up until 1987, when Central won the contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios. In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the demise of in-vision continuity. Nine years later, the operations moved to ITV Granada's MediaCityUK studios in Salford. In 2006, CITV launched as a digital channel on Freeview. The channel broadcast content from CITV's archive and acquisitions daily from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm. The CITV channel averaged around 100,000 viewers between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm daily. The CITV programming block on the ITV network airs on weekend mornings from 6:00 am to 9:25 am as part of the ITV Breakfast time slot. CITV did not have a +1 simulcast, unlike the rest of ITV's portfolio of channels. Additionally, the channel was only simulcast in HD on Sky online and Sky Glass. On 22 July 2023, ITV launched a new children's hub on the ITVX streaming service, called ITVX Kids, with plans that it would be an eventual replacement for the CITV channel. At 9:00pm on 1 September 2023, the channel ceased broadcasting with a loop informing viewers of the move to ITVX.On 2 September 2023, the childrens' block was moved to feature every morning on ITV2 during breakfast time, 05:00 to 09:00. Shows broadcast are from ITVX Kids, featured on the streaming service ITVX. This block retains the CITV branding after the channel's closure.

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