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So did Fox Kids in the early days and so did TCC before they spun off Tiny Living and Trouble (who both also had IVC)- in fact it was a major part of TCC at one point.

I think Cartoon Network were the only kids channel of the era that didn't have IVC- though they did have periods of live continuity with real time animation (which IIRC was done by the same people who did Tricky (and The Chart Show) on ITV- and of course the Tricky animations were re-used on Pop for years, though not live.

Cartoon Network UK/Europe didn't have IVC for quite a few reasons:

1. The Nature of the Channel (Obviously): The Channel is about animation and not live-action.

2. Up until October 1999 in the UK, the channel was pan-European carrying different audio tracks (the pan-European aspect of the channel was spun-off from CN UK as a separate shadow feed which I will explain later*), dubbed over or non-dubbed IVC would be rather awkward.

3. Budget: The channel was still depending on its classics archive well into the 90's although originals from both Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Animation started to fill the schedule. Also the channel didn't opt for encryption and didn't join Sky pay-TV's packages, so they didn't see a penny from Sky subscriptions in the 1990's and early 2000's.

4. Animated "IVC" powered by pre-prepared live animation technology such as Toon FM and The Big Bravo did came about after October 1999, after this date, the channel was soft-scrambled (a Videocrypt decoder was required, but no subscription needed) and only UK and Ireland viewers should in reality be the only viewers that should be phoning in.

*Viewers in parts of Europe and Africa continued to receive an alternative version of Cartoon Network UK until 2001, this was identical to Cartoon Network UK and shadowed the channel's schedule, except some shows were substituted, this included Dragon Ball Z, this was due to broadcasting rights, and was true for a bunch of new third-party shows. A fully fledged version of a Cartoon Network pan-feed was launched in 2001, which was completely separate from CN UK. I explain this in better detail in my Toonami UK article: regularcapital-audiovisual-research.fandom.com