CBBC/CBeebies

The CBBC and CBeebies channels both launched in 2002, coinciding with a relaunch of the CBBC strands on BBC1 and 2. They broadcast from 7am and 6am until 7pm, sharing the space on Digital with BBC Choice and BBC4. CBeebies is targeted at under fives, with its collection of programmes such as The Tweenies and Bill and Ben, whilst CBBC caters for the rest of the child/teenage audience. Both are promoted for their lack of commercial advertisements, with them being licence-fee funded. Whereas CBeebies has been a huge success, the CBBC channel struggles to achieve a large audience.

Sadly, there are some practices carried out on these channels which the BBC would never get away with for adult audiences. (perhaps it could explain CBBC's low audience). All 4:3 programmes have the top and bottom hacked off making it 14:9 to pretend they're widescreen programmes. For this reason all the clips on this page are in 14:9 letterbox. They also sometimes stick those green bugs in the middle of programmes, and use annoying animated logos(or DOGs) in the corner of the screen.