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In 2002, when BBC Children's divided its services into CBBC and CBeebies, programmes for younger children were rebranded under the name CBeebies and the same production department began CBeebies Presentation. Presentation across CBBC and CBeebies was suspended temporarily in September 2022 because of the death and state funeral of Queen ...
Emlyn the Gremlyn was a CBBC puppet-presenter for the live ("Continuity") links on Children's BBC from 1999 until 2002. Created/owned by BBC Worldwide, built by Darryl Worbey Studios and puppeteered by Tim Cherry-Jones [1] [2] and Grant Mason, Emlyn the Gremlyn assisted the human presenters between shows to promote the channel's programming and provide an interactive element through ...
In 2002, the launch of the CBBC and CBeebies channels saw a wide variety of programmes, both new and archive, being shown again on the new channels from 6 am or 7 am until 7 pm. In 2005, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell , was questioned in the House of Commons as to whether a public service broadcaster should ...
Prior to the launch of Children's BBC on 9 September 1985, BBC1 used some specialist branding for its children's strand. The origins of CBBC can be found in the "Children's Hour" of the original BBC Television Service, but prior to 1984, children's programmes received no special idents and continuity was done out of vision by the duty continuity announcer.
1937. 24 April – The first children's television show For the Children is broadcast.; 1939. 1 September – The BBC Television Service is suspended, about 20 minutes following the conclusion of a Mickey Mouse cartoon (Mickey's Gala Premier), owing to the imminent outbreak of the Second World War amid fears that the VHF transmissions would act as perfect guidance beams for enemy bombers ...
On 20 November 2001, the CBeebies name was officially revealed as part of the split of the already-existing CBBC block and would be used as both a children's block and a digital channel. [1] The CBeebies channel launched on 11 February 2002 alongside the CBBC channel, as a spinoff from the BBC's children's television strand.
The original BBC Four idents from 2002 to 2005. BBC Four was launched on 2 March 2002. The channel's first series of idents were dynamic and reacted to the frequencies of continuity announcers' voices or background music. As a result, no idents were ever the same, however variations were produced featuring different visualisations, such as ...
This is a list of continuity announcers in the United Kingdom – the term ... CBBC Scotland: John Urquhart, Di ... Hampshire, Fiona Honan (2000–2002), ...