CITV

CITV is a British programming block and, until 2023, a television channel. It was broadcast by Sky Digital, Virgin Media, and Freesat. It was launched on 17 December 1981 as Watch It! until 3 January 1983 as Children's ITV. It became available on Freeview in May 2006. It was also released on Sky in May and NTL on 6 June. Both the analogue and the Sky versions were released on Virgin Media's Virtual Menu on 19 May 2007. The analogue version was removed from the platform in 2011 and only the Sky version remained available on the platform's Virtual Menu. Today, it is a programming block on ITV2, replacing teleshopping.

CITV logo from 2003 to 2006

At 9:00 AM on 30 June 1995 the CITV channel stopped broadcasting on ITV1 (playing TV shows) But It Returned On June 6, 2025.^[1][2][3]

Programming

Some of the programmes shown on CITV were Horrid Henry, Mr. Bean: The Animated Series, Thunderbirds Are Go, and Sooty. A number of other programmes are sourced from different broadcasters internationally.