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(30-05-2023, 05:09 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Was a sensible use of the space. BBC3 has had a fix 7pm start when being able to start just 15 minutes early some times would make sense when they have a live event kicking off at 7pm on the dot.
It didn't make a great deal of sense when they had ITV2 and ITV3 to play with but left them on their usual schedules.
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(30-05-2023, 06:46 PM)WillPS Wrote: It didn't make a great deal of sense when they had ITV2 and ITV3 to play with but left them on their usual schedules.
Then again, this was when ITV couldn't care less about CITV. (I say 'when' very loosely, they still couldn't)
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(30-05-2023, 06:46 PM)WillPS Wrote: It didn't make a great deal of sense when they had ITV2 and ITV3 to play with but left them on their usual schedules.
They only really begun to use ITV3 as an overspill channel for sport if ITV1/4 were already showing sport programming, I believe this was when the RWC took place in 2007.
Still don't get why they did not do that earlier instead of just closing CITV early to hand-over to ITV4, although part of me believes they were trialling the possibility of an extended ITV4 at the time?
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(31-05-2023, 10:58 AM)Rex Wrote: They only really begun to use ITV3 as an overspill channel for sport if ITV1/4 were already showing sport programming, I believe this was when the RWC took place in 2007.
Still don't get why they did not do that earlier instead of just closing CITV early to hand-over to ITV4, although part of me believes they were trialling the possibility of an extended ITV4 at the time?
ITV3 were showing sport occasionally from launch I believe, overspill F1 coverage etc.
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It looks like we finally have a date for CITV's closure having checked DS' Sky satellite thread:
Friday 1st September 2023 at 9pm.
September was the earliest time ITV could close the channel and its closure was listed as 'early autumn', by that point the GMTV2 licence will have been moved back to ITV2 to make use of that daily quota.
Has anyone also checked the channel recently to see if it's been continuously pointing to the new ITVX Kids service?
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I’ve just had a look at the channel to see a trailers for ‘Hotel Transilvania’ and ‘Mr Bean’ that end just announcing the titles and “on CITV”.
However, this trailer has just aired promoting the ITVX stream.
youtu.be
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(03-08-2023, 12:29 PM)fanoftv Wrote: I’ve just had a look at the channel to see a trailers for ‘Hotel Transylvania’ and ‘Mr Bean’ that end just announcing the titles and “on CITV”.
I think it's been like that for a few years now. Around 2021-2022-ish?
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Unconfirmed information is coming in - saying that CITV may be closing on September 1st.
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(17-08-2023, 11:37 AM)TheFullElectro Wrote: Unconfirmed information is coming in - saying that CITV may be closing on September 1st.
From who?
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(18-08-2023, 12:52 PM)WillPS Wrote: From who?
From here apparently.
forums.digitalspy.com
I'll check the Virgin programming guide tomorrow to 100% confirm as it goes up to two weeks.