[Roger Darthwell]

There is a lot of nostalgia about CITV but kids today have more options and this is just the same as when ITV dropped the CITV block way back in 2005.

More options but still the same limited amount of time to watch.

Sticking everything online means people can watch what they want when they want, but that's not necessarily a good thing. It eradicates all the positives of what a varied schedule brings. How many programmes have we all watched that we didn't intend to but we learned something or even were able to ponder why we didn't like it?  People being able to just watch (and they're perfectly entitled to of course) what they want for hours on end isn't healthy, particularly those with developing minds.

Some programmes/subjects also wouldn't get much-needed awareness if it wasn't for linear TV.

I didn't want to say this, but I am going to, this is exactly the same problem that BBC Three had when it went online, and what happened? It returned on TV and it proved that the only reasonable strategy is for on demand streaming and linear to coexist