Did Dawn Airey Ruin CITV in 1993?
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When Dawn Airey took control of Childrens ITV in 1992, she allegedy sacked Tommy Boyd, who had a disagreement with Airey. Tommy left in Dec 1992.
Glenn Kinsey who had been doing Summer Mornings then presented until Feb 1993, when "thanks" to Ms Airey all in-vision continuity was scrapped.
And CITV went downhill ever since. Steve Ryde was the annoying voice over for animated characters inbetween the programmes. This new presentation made Cbeebies look like Question Time
Thankfully, during 1993-1997 CITV still produced some good teenage dramas like The Lodge, Eye of the Storm and Delta Wave.
Dawn Airey's successor, saw sense and in May 1997 invision continuity was restored in May 1997. With new faces Danielle Lloyd and Stephen Mulhern.
By 2002, with increasing competition from Nick & DIsney and less investment by ITV in childrens programming, CITV began to suffer.
Sadly, again invision contiunity was dropped in 2005 and all kids content moved to the CITV Channel.
CBBC still has in vision continuity on the CBBC Channel- but the style of the presenters is much different to the likes of the greats (Schofield,Crane, Parkin for BBC, Kinsey Boyd for ITV)
Glenn Kinsey who had been doing Summer Mornings then presented until Feb 1993, when "thanks" to Ms Airey all in-vision continuity was scrapped.
And CITV went downhill ever since. Steve Ryde was the annoying voice over for animated characters inbetween the programmes. This new presentation made Cbeebies look like Question Time
Thankfully, during 1993-1997 CITV still produced some good teenage dramas like The Lodge, Eye of the Storm and Delta Wave.
Dawn Airey's successor, saw sense and in May 1997 invision continuity was restored in May 1997. With new faces Danielle Lloyd and Stephen Mulhern.
By 2002, with increasing competition from Nick & DIsney and less investment by ITV in childrens programming, CITV began to suffer.
Sadly, again invision contiunity was dropped in 2005 and all kids content moved to the CITV Channel.
CBBC still has in vision continuity on the CBBC Channel- but the style of the presenters is much different to the likes of the greats (Schofield,Crane, Parkin for BBC, Kinsey Boyd for ITV)
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http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2006/11/17/new-restrictions-on-the-television-advertising-of-food-and-drink-products-to-children/
so most of the revenue went away ...
Aren't the considering extending that ban right up to the watershed, as they think that children are still able to see such adverts too often?
It wouldn't surprise me if in 10 years time all such adverts are banned entirely.
I found CITV to be very dull and boring when Tommy returned, and in 1993 it was given a right kick up the back side. During 1993/94 etc CITV had the highest rated cartoons and kids dramas on tv.
I do see your point about Qt :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-is2o9R75c
Steve Ryde was a kids presenter before and well Guess where Steven ended up in 1998? He become a top dog in CITV and it was he was in charge of bring back IN-Vison.
Dawn Airey's successor, which one? Dawn Left to go to Channel 4 in 1994..
CITV become crap once Janie Grace was sacked
Remember the White Knuckle Tour?
Pretty sure it only had a quarter of the viewers that CBBC had regularly, hence the high turnover of short-lived series on CITV during this period.
Precisely - me too!:o
That may be true, but CITV still had some of the highest rating shows
Wow you had a long childhood...
It's always 'best' when you was a kid surely?!
You revived an old thread just to post that vague, incomprehensible one-word answer?
Lol, it also looks like it was her first ever post on DS, so she may even have joined just to write a single Australian colloquial word of exclamation 7 months after the last comment. The human species is bizarre indeed.
I was a tv watching kid in the early 90's. We had ghost train on Saturday mornings, whats up doc, Mike and Angelo, Spatz, Clarissa explains it all etc etc etc. But looking back at previous years and years since 1975 - 95 also had supergran, Grange Hill. 3 7 11, Knightrider, Terrahawks, Count Duckula etc etc.
It seems after 95 it all got dumbed down, put into demographics, lost ad revenue, and above all, lost all effort and imagination. Pokemon, Teletubbies, and flibberdy jibberdy nonsense talking things don't quite cut it!
I largely lost interest around the time in-vision continuity was dropped, and apart from the odd thing, I largely gave up on after school children's TV in favour of my games consoles until the Australian soaps came on.
However it was taken over by Carlton TV in 1994 after the big "franchise auction".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_Central#Children.27s
Carlton & Granada then basically shut down all production by Central gradually in the early 2000's. This affected the childrens shows.
They also cut the budgets for Citv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITV
Some are subscription, so get a cut of the money, which will help
Actually, I'd say the main producers of CITV programmes were Scottish, Thames/Tretra Films and Meridian/TVS, with HTV, Anglia, Granada, Central, Yorkshire, Carlton and Tyne Tees following.
Central, however, were in charge of the CITV presentation. Commissioning and scheduling was done by the ITV Network Centre.
I dont remember there Afternoon slot so much, but having missed a lot of Schooling, due to disability, operations, I fondly Remember there Lunchtime Slot.
Tommy Boyd, was he the one that ran a Waitrose for a while or am I thinking of someone else?
The ban on Fatty adverts killed CITV, because most of those adverts were the biggest spenders for the slots. If you were trying to sell washing powered I doubt any kids would run to the mummys and say I want Bold
What is the story about Boyd the person ?
Carlton already had a 20% stake in Central prior to the complete takeover. It was Govt legislation that allowed ITV companies to take over other ITV companies (providing it wasn't the two London stations) This was something totally seperate to the 1991 Franchise contest.
They did have Surf washing powder sponsoring Crossroads, and they were having Arthur Darvill (or Thomas Darvill as he was back then) flogging Crossroads on CITV in a desperate bid to get that audience watching to boost ratings.
And yes, the Rev from Broadchurch was an in-vision presenter on CITV.