CBeebies

CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children 6 years and under. Launched on 11 February 2002 it broadcasts from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Freeview (where it shares bandwidth with BBC Four, broadcast after 7 p.m.), cable and digital satellite.
The CBBC Channel is its sister channel for older children.
CBeebies offers a mix of education and entertainment programming. Content is developed and produced using pre-school specialists and the Website and Interactive television offers educative and entertaining content beyond the TV programmes.

The schedule on CBeebies is the same every weekday, with a different schedule (often with different programmes) at the weekends. Between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. on weekends, all programmes are signed.
Michael Carrington is the current Controller for CBeebies, responsible for commissioning all content across BBC Television, On-line, Interactive TV, and Radio. An audio counterpart, CBeebies Radio, broadcasts for 3 hours everyday on BBC 7 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.


Bedtime Hour
Between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., CBeebies has a Bedtime Hour to help prepare young children for bed. The programmes are calm, often involving stories, such as 64 Zoo Lane, The Fimbles, Step Inside, The Story Makers and The Roly Mo Show. In March 2007, a new programme In the Night Garden debuted in The Bedtime Hour.
The strand also features a celebrity reading a bedtime story at the end, in the tradition of Jackanory.A song clip is used to start the bedtime hour ("Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon").
The bedtime hour ends with a pre-recorded clip of the presenter Chris Jarvis singing a lullaby ("The Time has Come to Say Goodnight"). Following the song, the station closes down for the night.
In the Night Garden
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies (United Kingdom)

CBeebies Overseas
An international version of CBeebies is available in Poland on Cyfrowy Polsat, in Singapore on SingTel, in Hong Kong on nowTV (channel 447), and in India on TataSky (channel 607) and India Online Broadband (channel 49) in both English and Hindi.
The channel is expected to expand into France, Germany ans Scandinavia in 2008.
Website: www.cbeebies.com (International)
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