CBeebies

CBeebies
launch = 11 February 2002
Owned by	BBC
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Audience share	1.4% (March 2009, BARB)
Replaced	CBBC on Choice (Programming strand on BBC Choice)
Sister channel(s)	CBBC Channel
Website	www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies www.cbeebies.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 71
Satellite
Sky Digital	Channel 614
Tata Sky (India)	Channel 607
Polsat (Poland)	Channel 78
SKY Latin America (Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean)	Channel 329
DStv	Channel 306
Foxtel	Channel 705
Austar	Channel 705
Cable
Virgin Media	Channel 702
UPC Ireland	Channel 814 cable serv 3 = Indovision (Indonesia)
	Channel 29
Telenet (Belgium)	Channel 604 (From July)
Foxtel	Channel 705
Optus TV	Channel 705
Cable Mágico (Peru)	Channel 418
StarHub TV (Singapore)	Channel 31
IPTV over ADSL
now TV (Hong Kong)	Channel 447
Tiscali TV(UK)	Channel 305
Internet television
BBC Online	Watch live (UK only)
BBC iPlayer	Watch live (UK only)

CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children 6 years and under^[1]. Launched on 11 February 2002, the station broadcasts from 06:00 to 19:00 each day on Freeview (where it shares bandwidth with BBC Four, broadcast after 19:00), cable, IPTV and digital satellite. An audio counterpart, CBeebies Radio, broadcasts for 3 hours everyday on BBC 7 from 14:00 to 17:00. The CBBC Channel is its sister channel for older children.^[2]

CBeebies offers a mix of education and entertainment programming. The schedule on the channel is the same every weekday, with a different schedule (often with different programmes) at the weekends. Between 14:00 and 17:00 on weekends, all programmes are signed. CBeebies also airs programming on BBC One and BBC Two. Michael Carrington is the current Controller for CBeebies, responsible for commissioning all content across BBC Television, On-line, Interactive TV, and Radio.^[3]

In-vision continuity for CBeebies is pre-recorded from Studio 4 of Teddington Studios, a small, widescreen equipped studio^[4]. It is understood that CBeebies are able to make use of Teddington's facilities for half the rate it was charged by BBC Resources for studios at Television Centre - saving the channel around £500,000 per year.

The international CBeebies channel is commercial-free and wholly-owned by BBC Worldwide. The first international launch for the CBeebies channel was in India in May 2007. The channel is available in the Republic of Ireland on UPC Ireland, Magnet Networks and other digital television services. The channel is available on the Tata Sky digital satellite platform in addition to India online Broadband Pvt Ltd. The channel launched in Singapore on the mio TV in July 2007(until June 09, CBeebies transfers to Starhub Cable Vision effective 1st August 2009) , on NOW TV in Hong Kong in October 2007, in Poland on the Cyfrowy Polsat digital satellite platform in December 2007, in Indonesia on Indovision in April 2008 in Mexico on the Sky Latin America digital satellite platform in August 2008, and in Africa on DStv in September 2008. It was launched in Australia on Foxtel and Optus Television on 1 November 2008, and will launch on AUSTAR as soon as the third quarter of 2009.

Contents 1 Programming 2 Strands 2.1 Big Fun Time 2.2 Bedtime Hour 3 Presenters 3.1 Previous presenters 4 Songs 4.1 Regular songs 4.2 Occasional songs 4.3 Seasonal songs 5 Awards 6 References 7 External links

Programming

Strands

Big Fun Time

Big Fun Time, hosted by Sidney Sloane, is broadcast from 15:30 to 18:00. On a weekend, Andy Day co-presents "Big Fun Time" alongside Sloane.

Bedtime Hour

CBeebies's final hour of transmission is given over to Bedtime Hour. The programmes are calm, often involving stories, such as In The Night Garden, 3rd & Bird & Charlie & Lola.

The strand begins at 18:00 with a song ("Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon") and concludes with a pre-recorded clip of continuity presenters Alex Winters & Cerrie Burnell singing a lullaby ("The Time Has Come to Say Goodnight"). Following the song, the station closes down for the night.

Presenters

Currently, the continuity presenting team consists of:

• Sidney Sloane^[5] (2002-present)
• Andy Day^[5] (2006-present)
• Cerrie Burnell^[5] (2009-present)
• Alex Winters^[5] (2009-present)
• Aneta Piotrowska (Cbeebies Poland)^[6]

Previous presenters

• Sue Monroe (2002-2005/06)
• Nicole Davis (2002-2005/06)
• Eva Alexander (2008)
• Chris Jarvis (2002-2009)
• Pui Fan Lee (2002-2009)

Almost all the CBeebies presenters have appeared in children's programmes prior to presenting CBeebies — Pui Fan Lee originally played the Teletubbies character Po, and Sue Monroe voiced and puppeteered Tigs in The Shiny Show. She also operated and voiced Poppy in Playdays and Webster for CBeebies.^[7]

Prior to 2006, links between programmes on weekend mornings were presented out-of-vision and featured a pair of animated characters called Bear And Butterfly (voiced by Chris Jarvis, Pui Fan Lee and Sue Monroe.) Chris Jarvis presented the story show 'Step inside'.

Songs

CBeebies presentation throughout the day is accompanied by songs sung by the presenters.

Regular songs

• What's the Day?: Originally each weekday was divided into five segments, each presented by one of the original five "core presenters" namely Chris, Nicole, Pui, Sid and Sue. The start of each segment was accompanied by the What's the Day? song. Each segment was themed (for instance Sid's segment included "building and making" programmes such as "Bob the Builder", Nicole's included animal programmes and so on). Latterly the segmentation was dispensed with, except for the Bedtime Hour discussed below.^{[citation needed]}
• The Birthday Song: sung before presenters show cards sent in on behalf of their young viewers who are celebrating a birthday that day. CBeebies does not use Happy Birthday to You which despite wide public performance is purportedly a copyrighted work.^[8][9][10]
• It's time for Lunch: Broadcast at noon, it includes Eva, Chris, Sid and Pui buying fruit and vegetables from market stalls, preparing food such as sandwiches and eating them.^[10]
• Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon: Broadcast at 18:00 to mark the beginning of the Bedtime Hour.
• Goodnight: Lullaby broadcast at 19:00 to mark the close of transmission from CBeebies.^[10]

Occasional songs

• Sid Says: a rap-style presentation by Sid, who tells the audience to perform simple actions (such as "Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, Sid says 'wave your hands'"). ^[10]
• Number Debut: This song was only ever sung 4 times in history by Sid & Sarah-Jane. It was a rap sung before showings of Numberjacks about Sid getting his numbers in the wrong order.

Seasonal songs

• Happy Christmas: during the Christmas 2006 season, a segment was recorded featuring Chris, Sid, Pui, Justin and Sarah-Jane singing the 'Happy Christmas from CBeebies to you' song.^[11]

Awards

• Children's Channel of the Year awarded at the 2007 BAFTA Children's Awards (25 November 2007)^[12]

• Best Music Original Score John Greswell & David Schweitzer for Charlie and Lola at the Royal Television Society Awards (29 November 2007)^[13]

• Best Pre-school Animation Series awarded to Charlie & Lola at the 2007 BAFTA Children's Awards^[12]

• Best Writer awarded to Anna Starkey for Charlie & Lola at the 2007 BAFTA Children's Awards^[12]

• Best Children's Live-Action Series awarded to In the Night Garden at the 2007 BAFTA Children's Awards^[12]

• Best Children's Programme awarded to Nina & the Neurons at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2007^[14]

• Best Children's Programme awarded for Charlie & Lola at the Broadcast Awards 2007^[15]

• Best TV Series for Children and Adults awarded to Charlie & Lola at the Bradford Animation Festival 2006 ^[16]

• CBeebies was Highly Commended in the Best Children's Channel category at the Broadcast Digital Channel Awards 2006^[17]

• Best Pre-school Live Action Series awarded to CBeebies AutumnWatch at the BAFTA Children's Awards 2006^[18]

• Best Pre-school Live Action Series awarded to Boogie Beebies at the BAFTA Children's Awards 2005^[19]

References

External links

• CBeebies
• CBeebies at BBC Online
• CBeebies Magazine
• CBeebies Australia
• CBeebies to move (Broadcast)
• CBeebies to quit BBC TV Centre (The Guardian)
• Andy and Mike's... Big Box of Bananas staring Andy Day

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