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Major TV channel set to close for good after 42 years as fans left gutted by abrupt announcement
ITV says children’s programming will move to CBBC and ITVX Kids as the long-running brand ends permanently.
- On April 10, the iconic channel CITV will cease all broadcasts on ITV2 after 42 years, marking the permanent end of the brand's presence on linear television.
- Originally launched as a block called Watch IT, the station became a 24-hour channel in 2006 before ITV shifted programming to an ITV2 block in 2023.
- Throughout its history, the channel aired shows like Art Attack with Neil Buchanan and Horrid Henry, which also launched careers for Holly Willoughby, Stephen Mulhern, and Cat Deeley.
- ITV will transition programming to the ITVX Kids platform, while CBBC will acquire some of the network's archive to reach younger audiences online permanently.
- Lamenting the closure, fans called it "another nail to the coffin of my childhood," while others mourned the "end of an era" for the CITV brand.
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