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It would make sense for Pop to get the Freeview slot. They have three kids channels but one of them, Pop Max is only available on Freeview in certain regions (is it just Manchester?), though it's on Sky nationally. The other two, Pop and Tiny Pop, are already available nationally I think.

Pop Max closed on Freeview in May of last year, and was on the G-MAN (which is available to 55% of Greater Manchester) multiplex at the time of it's closure, it was largely superseded by the launch of a Pop Player streaming channel on COM4/SDN which contains all the output of Pop Max. 

Pop itself is on COM6/ArqB and Tiny Pop is on the Local TV multiplex. I think ITV will use the bandwidth left over by CITV's closure with an extended ITV3 +1 (which currently timeshares with CITV on Freeview only. It also shares with the placeholder channels ITV4 +1 and ITVBe +1, which both only broadcast for an hour every night.)