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division responsible for media content for children in the UK. Since the launch of specially dedicated television channels in 2002, the services have been marketed under two brands. CBBC (short for Children's BBC or initialed for Children's British Broadcasting Corporation) is aimed at children aged between 6 and 12, and CBeebies offers content for younger viewers. Unlike CBeebies, the CBBC brand pre-dates the launch of these channels and before 2002, CBBC was also the brand name used for all of the BBC's children's programmes.

CBBC CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the bran ...

broadcasts from 7:00am to 7:00pm (previously 7:00am to 9:00pm until 4 January 2022) and

CBeebies CBeebies is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 years and under. Its sister channel CBBC is aimed at older childr ...

broadcasts from 6:00am to 7:00pm, respectively timesharing with

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for

and

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for

. The brands also have dedicated websites, social media channels and

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s on

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History

1930–1952

The BBC has produced and broadcast television programmes for children since the 1930s. The first children-specific strand on BBC television was ''

For the Children ''For the Children'' is a British television programme targeted at children of school age. First broadcast on the BBC Television Service in 1937 at 3pm as the opening programme for afternoon viewing (as television would generally be broadcast ...

'', first broadcast on what was then the single 'BBC Television Service' on Saturday 24 April 1937; it was only ten minutes long. It lasted for two years before being taken off air when the service closed due to the Second World War in September 1939. Following the war, ''For the Children'' recommenced on Sunday 7 July 1946, with a twenty-minute slot every Sunday afternoon and the addition of programmes for pre-school children under the banner ''For The Very Young'', and over the years they became an established feature of the early afternoons on the BBC's main channel BBC 1.

1952–1964

In 1952, the "For the Children" / "For the Very Young" branding was dropped; older children's programmes were introduced by regular continuity announcers whilst younger children's programming was broadcast under the ''

Watch with Mother ''Watch with Mother'' was a cycle of children's programmes created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird. Broadcast by BBC Television from 1952 until 1975, it was the first BBC television series aimed specifically at pre-school children, a developme ...

'' banner. Significant series for older children that began in the 1950s included

The Sooty Show ''The Sooty Show'' is a British children's television series, created by Harry Corbett, and produced for the BBC from 1955 to 1967, and then for ITV from 1968 until 1992. The show, part of the ''Sooty'' franchise, focuses on the mischievous adv ...

and

Blue Peter ''Blue Peter'' is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair. It is the longest-running children's TV show in the world, having been broadcast since October 1958. It was broadcast primarily from BBC Tel ...

1964–1985

The 1964 launch of

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allowed additional room for young children's programming. On 21 April 1964, '' Play School'' became its first official programme after a power outage meant the opening night launch programmes were never broadcast. Away from the screen, in 1964 the Children's department was briefly amalgamated with Women's Programmes to form Family Programmes until it was reinstated in 1967. Around this time, the production offices moved to the newly developed

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in White City with most offices being based in the East Tower where they remained until its closure in 2011. Other significant series that began in the 1960s include '' The Clangers'' and in 1966, the long running story telling format, '' Jackanory''. Significant series that began in the 1970s included the long-running children's news service, ''

Newsround ''Newsround'' (stylised as ''newsround'', and originally called ''John Craven's Newsround'' before his departure in 1989) is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972. It was one of the world's first televi ...

''. In 1976 Saturday Morning television began in earnest with the launch of ''

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop ''Multi-Coloured Swap Shop'', more commonly known simply as ''Swap Shop'', is a British children's television series that aired on BBC1 from 2 October 1976 to 27 March 1982. It was ground-breaking in many ways: by broadcasting on Saturday mornin ...

''. In 1978, ''

Grange Hill ''Grange Hill'' is a British Children's television series, children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical Comprehensive school (England and Wales), comprehensive school. The show began its ru ...

'', a contemporary drama series set in a comprehensive school began. In 1975, The ''

'' branding was dropped. Roger Gale, later an MP for the Conservative Party, was head of children's television from 1976 to 1979. Significant series that began in the 1980s include ''

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''. On 1 October 1980, ''

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'' was launched (''Watch with Mother'' branding having ended in 1975), which was moved to BBC2 in June 1987, before ending in 1990. In 1983, a Diamond Jubilee Festival Exhibition commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of BBC Children's Programmes at the Langham Hotel in London. The exhibition then moved to the

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in 1984.

1985–2002

Until 1985, children's programmes on BBC1 were introduced by the usually off-screen continuity announcer, though often specially-designed menus and captions would be used. In September of that year the block rebranded as ''Children's BBC'', and for the first time had a dedicated Children's BBC logo. It was described in a BBC press release as, "a new package of programmes specially gift-wrapped for children." Early graphics and idents were generated by a

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computer, with which the BBC had been increasingly been experimenting with and utilising in their children's programming continuity for a year or so prior to the rebrand. The most significant change was that the

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was seen on screen (in-vision). Rather than use the existing BBC One announcer, a new presenter was selected. The launch presenter was

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, presenting the slot for the first time at 15:55 BST on 9 September 1985. Remaining in the small continuity booth at Television Centre, during the first few days of these broadcasts, Schofield began to refer to the space as "The Broom Cupboard", due to its very small size, and supposedly due to the BBC only sparing a small broom cupboard for him to host from. This quickly became an established name for the space, even appearing in billings as such. A

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shows that many more followed and this style of presentation continued and remains on the CBBC Channel as of 2021. During the 1990s, Children's BBC began to be referred to informally on-air as 'CBBC' (this occurred at around the same time that

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's rival service

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began to be referred to as CITV in a similar manner). The official billing name of Children's BBC remained in place, however, until the BBC's network-wide branding refresh of October 1997, when the official on-air branding changed to C BBC. (CITV officially adopted their short name in their own branding refresh the following year). From 1996 to 1999, CBBC programmes were also shown on the channel

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, as part of the ''CBBC on Nickelodeon'' (known as Children's BBC on Nickelodeon from 1996 to 1997) programming block, the CBBC on Nickelodeon block was originally hosted by Otis the Aardvark from its launch until October 2, 1997, which he's being replaced by Marvin P. Porcevark on October 5, 1997, which unlike Otis, never appeared or seen on the original CBBC block. The launch of digital channel BBC Choice in 1998 saw the channel broadcasting children's programming in a Saturday afternoon slot which was subsequently replaced by the daily 6 am to 7 pm service ''CBBC on Choice'', which aired archive pre-school programming and was itself the precursor of the current

CBBC Channel CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 7– ...

and

services.

2002–2012

In 2002, the launch of the

and the

Channel 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,

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, was questioned in the House of Commons as to whether a public service broadcaster should really be broadcasting "lavatorial" humour. Ms Jowell responded that it was the government's job to develop a charter for the BBC; and then the BBC's job to determine standards of taste, decency and appropriateness. BBC Children's relocated to BBC Bridge House,

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in May 2011. In September 2011 the flagship magazine show ''

'' began live broadcasts from its new home, with daily news programme ''

'' joining it in November 2011.

2012–present

Following the decline in viewing on BBC One and BBC Two and as part of the Delivering Quality First proposals submitted by the BBC in October 2011 and approved by the

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in May 2012, it was announced all children's programming on BBC One and Two would be moved permanently to the CBBC and CBeebies channels following the digital switchover. It was found that the majority of child viewers watched the programmes on these channels already and that only 7% of these children watched CBBC programmes on BBC One and Two only. Children's programming on BBC One ended on 21 December 2012 with the CBeebies' morning strand on BBC Two ending on 4 January 2013. In November 2015, as a further aspect of the Delivering Quality First plan that resulted in the replacement of

with a branded digital presence, the BBC Trust approved a proposal for CBBC to extend its broadcast day by two hours, using bandwidth previously reserved for BBC Three. The two new hours are aimed towards an older youth audience. On 14 March 2016, CBBC unveiled a new logo and on-air presentation, featuring an abstract, multicoloured wordmark enclosed in a box. CBBC controller Cheryl Taylor stated that the new brand was designed to be "fun and unpredictable" and would "appeal to both ends of our broad age spectrum". The logo was also meant to be suitable for use across digital platforms. On 11 April 2016, CBBC officially extended its broadcast day to be from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Throughout the decade changes in viewing patterns had an impact on BBC Children's services.

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research showed that between 2010 and 2017, television viewing dropped by 40% for children aged 4–9 and by 47% for children aged 10 –15. On 4 July 2017, the BBC announced as part of its inaugural Annual Plan for 2017–18, that it would invest an additional £34 million into children's content for digital platforms over the next three years, in an effort to counter changes in viewing habits. In 2019 it was announced that the Children's and Education departments would merge to become BBC Children's and Education. In March 2021, the BBC announced that the

's broadcast hours will be reduced, closing at 7pm instead of 9pm each day from January 2022. This is a return to the channel's broadcast hours before their extension in 2016. The move is to make way for the return of

to linear broadcast television.

Management

BBC Children's and Education is part of BBC North. Management of the division, in-house production and broadcast and production of presentation links for CBBC and CBeebies is based there. Overall strategic responsibility for all of the BBC's services for children rests with the Director of Children's, Patricia Hidalgo Reina (since May 2020), with commissioning decisions made by a Head of Commissioning and Acquisitions for the 0-6 age group and 7-12 age group respectively. The 7-12 age group is commissioned by Sarah Muller (since Feb 2021) with the 2-6 age group post waiting to be filled.

Programming

BBC Children's commissions and acquires a wide range of programme types, including drama, pre-school (

), news, entertainment, and factual programming. CBBC and CBeebies is therefore often seen as offering a similar mix of formats to the wider

...
, albeit tailored to suit a young audience. ''

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'' was one of the very few shows that was not aimed at young children, rather a more teenage/young adult audience as it dealt with some controversial themes. The longest-running CBBC programme is the magazine show ''

''. Other current programmes include ''

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'', '' 4 O'Clock Club'', ''Almost Never'', ''

The Dumping Ground ''The Dumping Ground'' (also informally referred to as ''The DG'') is a British children's television drama series that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people who live in a children's home with their care workers in care. The s ...

'', ''

Got What It Takes? ''Got What It Takes?'' is a British talent show that began airing on CBBC on 6 January 2016. Originally presented by Lauren Platt for the first three series, ''Got What It Takes?'' has been hosted by Anna Maynard since 2018. In 2021, Melvin Od ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

Shaun the Sheep ''Shaun the Sheep'' is a British stop-motion television series and a spin-off of the ''Wallace and Gromit'' franchise. The title character is Shaun (previously featured as the sheep named "Shaun" in the 1995 short film ''A Close Shave'' and t ...

'', '' Danger Mouse'' and more.

Scheduling on BBC One and BBC Two

Following the launch of Children's BBC as a branded block in 1985, the introduction of BBC1's daytime schedule in October 1986 led to the daily weekday offering of BBC Children's consisting of * A 30-minute block on BBC1 at 10:25am usually including the 'main' pre-school show ''( Play School'', then from 1988 ''Playbus''/''Playdays''), children's birthday cards and a cartoon * A 15-minute pre-school programme or programmes on BBC2 at 13:20 (often the slot for Me and You). This had previously been shown on BBC1 * The main afternoon block aimed at older children from 15:50 (16:10 in July and August) - 17:35. Weekend programmes consisted chiefly of Saturday morning programmes on BBC1, such as ''

Going Live! ''Going Live!'' was a British children's television series that aired on BBC1 from 26 September 1987 to 17 April 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene. Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Annabel Giles, Phillip ...

''. 1986 saw the introduction of children's programmes on Sunday mornings. They were shown on BBC2 between October and January when the

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was not being shown and the following year this was expanded into an all-morning block, initially called ''Now on Two'', later rebranded to ''But First This on 2.'' Children's programmes had traditionally been broadcast on weekdays during the school holidays and the launch of daytime television saw this expanded during the summer holidays into a three-hour block, broadcast from 9.05am until 12noon on BBC1 and branded ''But First This''. By 1992 children's programmes broadcast all morning on BBC Two leading up to the older pop show

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. In 1995, children's programmes started to be shown on BBC Two at weekday breakfast. The block was called ''The Children's BBC Breakfast Show''. By 2000, the CBBC Breakfast Show would air from 07:00 to 09:00, extended in the School holidays with CBBC mostly on BBC One in the Christmas holidays, followed by the birthday card slot from 10:00 to 10:50, often linked by one of the Breakfast Show presenters; a single or more preschooler shows would air around 1:00pm, also on BBC Two, linked by one of the presenters and Emlyn the Gremlyn then the afternoon block on BBC One would begin at 3:25pm with a mixture of younger kids shows and older kids' shows, linked by two presenters and Emlyn the Gremlyn. Weekend programmes consisted chiefly of Saturday morning programmes on BBC One with CBBC from 07.00 to 09.00, Linked by the presenters, with ''

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'' taking over from 09.00 until 12.10. Sunday morning consisted with the CBBC Birthday Cards on BBC One from spring until the autumn with CBBC on BBC Two starting from 08.15 in the spring and summer and at 07.00 in the autumn and winter with the slot finishing at 11.15. In the summer the CBBC slot would begin on BBC Two at 07.00 in its breakfast show slot before switching to BBC One at 09.00, finishing at 11.15

Relaunch to CBeebies & CBBC

Further changes to the schedule were rolled out during the 1990s and 2000s, including the introduction in the late 1980s of Sunday morning programmes on BBC 2, initially only during the

's winter break and then subsequently year-round; the introduction of a regular weekday morning "breakfast show" format, also on BBC Two; the relocation of the daytime pre-school slot to BBC Two, later returning to BBC One at the start of the afternoon block. The lunchtime block also continued to air on BBC Two. From 1990 to 1993 like the previous block "See-Saw", this was introduced by the continuity announcer. In 1993 Children's BBC launched a "Lunchtime Club" for this slot and introduced by the then rota of CBBC presenters. In 1996 it was handed back to the continuity announcer's duty again to introduce the programmes. From 1998 to 1999, just an ident was played out with no announcements. On 3 September 2001, Children's programming on CBBC got separated in the lead up to the launch of two children's channels which would be separated for different age groups, the CBBC Breakfast Show would air older children's shows from 07:00 to 08:10, followed by a block of younger kids' programmes from 08:10 to 10:50, often linked by one of the Breakfast Show presenters; a single preschooler show would air around 1:00pm, also on BBC Two, then the afternoon block on BBC One would begin at 3:25pm with 25 minutes of shows for the under-sevens, presented mostly in voiceover, followed from 3:50pm by the older kids' shows, linked in-vision. When the CBeebies and CBBC digital channels began, children's programming on BBC One and BBC Two remained in the same slots but adopted the new branding. Viewing figures were considerably higher on BBC One and Two as not every viewer could receive the digital channels either because the service was not available in their area or because they had old equipment not able to receive it. From February 2002, the morning block consisted of 60 minutes of CBeebies-branded content from 06:00, followed by ninety minutes of CBBC from 07:00, then further CBeebies content from 08:30; in the afternoon on BBC One there was a block of CBeebies content from 3:15pm followed by CBBC content for the remainder of the afternoon slot. Following the removal of BBC Schools' content from daytime BBC Two (into the

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), the time allocated to CBeebies on BBC Two was extended.

2008 - Shift to earlier BBC Slot in weekday afternoons

On 11 February 2008, following the move of ''

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'' from BBC Two to BBC One, CBBC on BBC One was shifted to run 3:05–5:15 rather than 3:25–5:35 as before in order to accommodate the 45 minute show before the Six O Clock News. The changes were made following the BBC's loss of the rights to soap opera ''

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'', which had for many years been broadcast between the end of CBBC and the start of the 6 pm news; when the decision was made to move daytime editions of ''

'' from BBC Two to One to fill the gap, CBBC had to move to an earlier slot as ''Weakest Link'' was longer than ''

'' was. In 2009, a report published by the

found that scheduling changes which took place in February 2008, where programming ended at 17:15, had led to a decrease in viewers. This was especially noticeable for ''

'' and ''

'', two of CBBC's flagship programmes; ''Blue Peter was'' recording its lowest viewing numbers since it started in 1958, and ''Newsround'' received fewer than 100,000 viewers compared to 225,000 in 2007.

2012 - End of children's programmes on BBC One and BBC Two

Following the decline in viewing on BBC One and BBC Two and as part of the Delivering Quality First proposals submitted by the BBC in October 2011 and approved by the

in May 2012, it was announced all children's programming on BBC One and Two would be moved permanently to the CBBC and CBeebies channels following the

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. It was found that the majority of child viewers watched the programmes on these channels already and that only 7% of these children watched CBBC programmes on BBC One and Two only. Children's programming on BBC One ended on 21 December 2012 with the CBeebies' morning strand on BBC Two ending on 4 January 2013.

2017 - Return to BBC Two

CBBC programming returned to BBC Two on Saturday mornings in September 2017 when ''

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'' launched, however this strand continues to use the regular BBC continuity announcers and not the CBBC presenters. On 11 January 2021 programming for children returned to BBC Two to provide educational content for children during school closures as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Other services

CBBC Extra

CBBC Extra, launched in 2005 was a free interactive television service from CBBC provided by

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which was available on all digital platforms in the United Kingdom. It was accessible from the CBBC Channel by pressing red and then selecting CBBC Extra. It could also be accessed from any other BBC channel by pressing red and going to page number 570. The service differed across digital platforms, for example digital satellite (i.e.:

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) viewers could access a video loop, however its availability on digital terrestrial (

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) was dependent upon BBC Red Button not showing other interactive services, such as major sports events coverage. Prior to CBBC's rebranding in 2016, CBBC Extra was shut down.

CBBC website

The CBBC website provides a wide range of activities for children aged 7–16, such as games, videos, puzzles, print and makes, including now defunct pre-moderated message boards, now replaced with comment threads below videos, games and articles. It also contains a TV guide and an area where kids can apply to be on a show. It provides content for all brands including Tracy Beaker,

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's Show Me What You're Made Of,

, Danger Mouse,

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, Hank Zipzer,

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and DIXI. It also gives kids the chance to view the

to replay or catch up their favourite CBBC programmes for up to 1 year.

Gaelic and Welsh services

BBC-produced children's programming, in native languages of

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and

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, also airs on

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and S4C respectively.

High Definition Channels

CBBC programmes were also broadcast in high definition alongside other BBC content on

BBC HD BBC HD was a 24-hour high-definition television channel provided by the BBC. The service was initially run as a trial from 15 May 2006 until becoming a full service on 1 December 2007 before its discontinuation on 26 March 2013. It broadcast ...

, generally at afternoons on weekends, unless the channel was covering other events. When BBC HD was closed on 26 March 2013, CBBC HD launched on 10 December 2013.

Logos

File:CBBC 1997.svg, This logo was used from 1997 to 2002; until the launch of the new TV channels. File:CBBC 2002 logo.svg, This logo was used from 2002 to 2005. File:CBBC logo 2005.svg, This logo was used from 2005 to 2007. File:CBBCLogo2007.svg, This logo was used from 2007 to 2016. File:CBBC 2016 logo.svg, This logo is the current and 4th TV channel logo, (5th overall) adopted in March 2016.

References

External links

CBBC Official website

CBBC Official YouTube Channel

The Broom Cupboard.co.uk, a history of CBBC continuity from 1985 to 1992, with over 150 pictures

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