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1937. 24 April – The first children's television show For the Children is broadcast.; 1939. 1 September – The BBC Television Service is suspended, about 20 minutes following the conclusion of a Mickey Mouse cartoon (Mickey's Gala Premier), owing to the imminent outbreak of the Second World War amid fears that the VHF transmissions would act as perfect guidance beams for enemy bombers ...
Big Kids; The Big Knights; Biggleton; The Big Performance; Big Wolf on Campus; Bill and Ben; Billy Bean and His Funny Machine; Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School; Billy Webb's Amazing Stories; Bing; Binka; The Biskitts; Bits and Bobs; Bitsa; Bitz & Bob; The Biz; Bizzy Lizzy; Blackhearts in Battersea; Bleep and Booster; Blood and Honey (TV series ...
6 February – The BBC Television Service drops the Baird system in favour of the Marconi-EMI 405 lines system. 24 April – The first children's television show For the Children airs. 12 May – The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time to televise the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
BBC Bitesize is launched as a free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom to aid pupils in both schoolwork and for older pupils, exams. [15] 1999. 1 June – BBC Knowledge launches as part of the BBC's move into digital television. The new channel broadcasts a mix of educational and informative programming ...
The BBC began broadcasting schools programmes on television on 24 September 1957, airing in the afternoon. Morning transmissions began on 19 September 1960. Until 1972, schools programming along with adult education programmes were usually the only daytime programmes shown on both BBC and ITV, as the government regulated and restricted the ...
BBC Kids launched on 24 April 2021 on Fetch TV in response to Cartoon Network and Boomerang entering an exclusivity agreement with Foxtel and departing the Fetch lineup. [7] This complemented an existing CBeebies channel available in Australia, catering to children aged 0 to 6. The channel was launched with popular children's shows from the UK. [8]
1958 in British television – ITV's TWW and Southern regions go on air and Blue Peter, the world's longest-running children's programme, is first broadcast by the BBC along with long-running various sport show Grandstand. 1959 in British television – The first Vienna New Year's Concert to be broadcast on television is aired by the BBC.
17 September – S4C's children's block is renamed from Clwb S4C to Slot Meithrin. 1991. Following the launch of the Astra 1B-satellite, The Children's Channel's hours expand and it is now on the air until 5pm each day. 1992. The Children's Channel launches an early evening block showing programming of greater interest to older children and ...