8 to 14 year olds

There is also shows on Kix like DC and Marvel Comics and some anime cartoons mixed in with the schedules like X-Men Unlimited, The Spectacular Spiderman, Batman Beyond (even though it hasn't shown this in ages), The Batman, Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal and Inazuma Eleven.

The Vault Channel has a lot of other programmes shown from Nickelodeon in the old days namely Saved by the Bell, Sister Sister and Sabrina the Teenage Witch dominating their schedules nearly every day of the week while combined with their music programming.

I don't know how The Vault got the rights to them in the first place but it's great for me to see them again after all these years.

I seriously doubt that there is a particular age when children suddenly migrate from watching children's programmes to adult programmes. It's more likely to be a gradual transition and dependent upon on the tastes of the child. I also think there are quite a lot of children who skip most of teenage and pre-teen programmes by moving directly into adult programmes from children's programmes. This is probably more a result of the genre of the programmes than anything else. If there are programmes designed for this age group that interest them then they will watch them.

I used to watch Tomorrows World, Mastermind, and C.A.T.S. Eyes when I was around 8 or 9 years old and I used to watch Knightmare, Press Gang, and various cartoons when I was around 13 or 14 years old. I never had (and still don't have) any interests in soaps although I used to watch Howard's Way every now and again.

Because they weren't Nick shows in the US. Nick UK just had broadcasting rights for them. Saved By The Bell was on NBC, Sister Sister and Sabrina both started on ABC and then moved to The WB.



Pop and Kix are also now the UK home of Power Rangers, whose target audience is probably 6-12.

All three shows were sort-of connected to Nick though being made by Paramount/Viacom though. All three shows are owned by CBS now.

Next month, Nicktoons will air a football show called 'Nick Kicks'. Boy, Nicktoons has really gone downhill.

Nicktoons US already does something similar with NickSports; heck, they even had a show about girls who wanted to be the next pro soccer player/footballer.

Yeah but, Nicktoons is supposed to have cartoons on it, not football.

My main interest is educational programmes. I can remember when BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 used to show programmes for schools during the day and at the time I wondered why some of these programmes were never repeated in evenings and weekends when more kids are available to watch them. Thankfully I had a video recorder so it was an early morning ritual to insert a blank tape then enter in the times of whatever interested me, then when I finished school, I came home to a tape filled with programmes to watch during the evening.

CBBC and CITV showed 'soft' educational programmes but never anything directly relating to the school curriculum.

FFS...

Airing school educational programming in the evenings and weekend? Seriously?
For one thing, it's all very well educating children without them realising it (as the IBA required some factual or educational content during the Saturday morning programming block - Tarrant and Tiswas found that out the hard way) but not so blatantly obvious.

Maybe you and the class swot would like to watch the weekday morning educational programming block repeated on a Saturday morning instead of pop videos, competitions, celebrity interviews and cartoons - but I know from experience, I wouldn't. I wanted entertainment when I was away from the chalk face of the classroom.

Educational programming only really existed in the first place because of the massive tick it gave the franchise holder with the IBA/ITC at renewal time.

How well would Granada Television's 'How We Used To Live' or 'Experiment' rate if it was repeated at 5.15pm on a Friday afternoon?

Think of the ugly reality of commercial television before you post next time -
You are a commercial television station, that needs mass viewers to sell the gaps between the programmes (and in them) to advertisers to bring in valuable revenue need to operate. Repeating programming out of the usual timeslot, and into another one where the type of adverts (sweets, toys, pester products etc) would jar massively with the educational nature of the programmes the commercials would be wrapped around, would be frankly suicidal for any ITV station.

I am serious. On a separate dedicated channel rather than an existing channel. The same frequencies that were later used for Channel 5. Before anybody moans about Channel 5, this educational channel could well have predated Channel 4.

Over the years I have known several people who were in favour of such a TV channel and they believe it was a lost opportunity, although in more recent times its utility would be marginalised by YouTube which has a large quantity of educational programmes.

Entertainment might have been your thing but take into account that back in the 1980s and 90s people actually did record BBC and ITV schools programmes for kids to watch at home so I was far from unique.



The programmes already existed so the costs of such an extra channel would have been quite low. ITV could have shifted its schools programmes during the day over to this channel as early as the 1970s so the ITV companies would have had their own channel free for stuff that brings in extra advertising revenue.

I don't think you understand television.

With due respect, I think you need a dose of reality. TV does *NOT* work like that.