Your thoughts on Kids TV?

To be fair- the in vision continuity on kids channels was never all day anyway, it was usually restricted at the most to mornings, afternoons, weekends and school holidays.

I remember the Disney Channel having live out of vision continuity for a while in the 00s as well. Cartoon Network did it very briefly for a while too, mixed with real time animation, though I remember that only being mornings & school holidays (supposedly being presented by Johnny Bravo).

Remember it would have been seen at the norm for in-vision continuity on Children's ITV (particularly in the 1980s) as most ITV regions were still doing it, though ironically enough Central jacked it in a few months before Children's ITV went full blown live in 1987. There's a big table on Wikipedia which suggests most of the northern regions still had in vision continuity well into the 1990s with the exception of Yorkshire who (it says here) hadn't done in vision continuity since 1970.

I suppose the 1993 rebrand/relaunch of Children's ITV to an out of vision service was probably overdue from their point of view, by that point most of the network had dropped in-vision by that point (or been replaced as appropriate), though it would change back again five years later, then flip back the other way eight or so years after that.

I only remember it during school holidays and from 4pm on Nick and Disney channel. Even then I remember during the summer holls in 1998, where it was all pre-recorded links on the disney channel. I dont remember any in the mornings bar CBBC.

There was definitely some morning IVC on Nickelodeon in the late 90s.

At least when CITV went out of vision in the 90s, there was at least still live continuity, not just the same few pre-recorded announcements over and over that today's kids channels have. Though obviously most adult channels aren't much better these days either.

BIB - ISTR that aspect didn't last long. Very few cartoons are broadcast live - it's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists...

Matron!

Can't remember if it was daily or just weekends/holidays, but this was definitely a thing - I once called in for a 'viewer introduces a programme' type chat. (They wanted to call me back to get me on air, which caused some problems as the phone would have woken up the rest of the house, and nobody else was up yet).

I remember calling in for a similar thing. It was on Nick AM and they wanted viewers to do a run down of the mornings programmes. I remember getting up early so the phone wouldn't wake any else up. We had just got Sky and no subscription meant Nickelodeon was scrambled and i did the whole introduction with no picture!

I was also on it in 1999, doing a one-boy impersonation of a scene from Star Wars as part of a viewer challenge. Genuinely felt like the coolest kid in school that day.

Shortly after we got same sky subscription, i also applied to be part of the 'Watch Your Own Week' for a day in the May 1998 half term with my sister and her friend. Nickelodeon sent a cab picked us up at 5.30am and took us to Rathbone Place where i got to meet Mike McClean and Mounya who were presenting for the day. I got to sit in the gallery (in the directors chair might i add) and one of the links was with the puppet Bogey and you can clearly see me watching the guy operating him while Bogey is talking to me. It was a great experience.

Once school had resumed the following week, i was famous for 15 minutes. Everyone knew who i was!

Nick Jr UK has rebranded today to be like USA and Europe

I know it won't come back, BUT, I think Kids TV in the UK will come back on itself. I think the reboots of the last 5 years will eventually make it that it will come back to the 'old days' but in a new era.