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CITV
CITV (standing for Children's ITV) was a British children's brand of ITV plc, a free-to-air television channel, and the name of programming blocks on the ITV network and ITV2. CITV launched on 29 December 1980 as Watch It!, then later rebranded on 3 January 1983 as Children's ITV, as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 6 to 12. It replaced the earlier Watch It! branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio until 1987, when Central won the contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios. In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the block's in-vision continuity being discontinued. In 2013, the operations moved to ITV Granada's MediaCityUK studios in Salford. In 2006, CITV launched as a digital channel on Freeview. The channel primarily ran repeated ITV content and acquisitions daily from 6am to 9pm. Following the removal of its original afternoon slot in late 2006, a CITV programming block on the ITV network continued to air on weekend mornings from 6am to 9:25am as part of the ITV Breakfast time slot. CITV did not have a +1 simulcast, unlike the rest of ITV's portfolio of channels, and was only simulcast in HD on Sky Glass.…
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CITV (standing for Children's ITV) was a British children's brand of ITV plc, a free-to-air television channel, and the name of programming blocks on the ITV network and ITV2. CITV launched on 29 December 1980 as Watch It!, then later rebranded on 3 January 1983 as Children's ITV, as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 6 to 12. It replaced the earlier Watch It! branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio until 1987, when Central won the contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios. In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the block's in-vision continuity being discontinued. In 2013, the operations moved to ITV Granada's MediaCityUK studios in Salford. In 2006, CITV launched as a digital channel on Freeview. The channel primarily ran repeated ITV content and acquisitions daily from 6am to 9pm. Following the removal of its original afternoon slot in late 2006, a CITV programming block on the ITV network continued to air on weekend mornings from 6am to 9:25am as part of the ITV Breakfast time slot. CITV did not have a +1 simulcast, unlike the rest of ITV's portfolio of channels, and was only simulcast in HD on Sky Glass.…
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
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- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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