![]() 4 April – The final edition of Saturday morning show Motormouth is broadcast.Repeats continue to be shown until the end of 1992. The series ends due to its producer Thames Television losing its ITV franchise. 6 March – After 20 years on air and 1002 episodes, the final new edition of Rainbow is broadcast.November – Following the loss of its franchise, TV-am scraps all of its original children's programming, replacing it with a new Saturday morning block programme for children called Cartoon World which as the name suggests, only showed cartoons.It is replaced the following week by TV Mayhem. September – Children's programme Hey, Hey, it's Saturday! is axed.9 April – Central wins back the contract to produce the continuity links, choosing to revert links back to a small in-vision studio and using one regular presenter, Tommy Boyd.July – Hey, Hey, it's Saturday! replaces Wac '90 as TV-am's flagship Saturday morning children's programme.Produced by Scottish Television and went out on Sundays at 9:25am and airs mainly between September and April. 3 September – The Disney Club is broadcast for the first time.Stonewall chooses not to use a fixed set, but instead presented links from various areas of Central's headquarters at Broad Street in Birmingham, utilising a rotating team of presenters which includes Clive Warren (now a DJ), Jeanne Downs (a singer), Jerry Foulkes (a producer who left Children's ITV on 22 December 1989) and a large puppet dog called Scally (who started out with Mark during his last few months). 3 April – The independent production company Stonewall Productions wins the contract to produce Children's ITV presentation.It is broadcast from Granada's studios in Manchester rather than from TV-am's London studios. April – The Wide Awake Club is renamed WAC '90.3 September – Motormouth launches as ITV's new Saturday morning children's programme.The links come from Broad Street studios and are presented by former Central announcers Gary Terzza and Debbie Shore. Previously, all links had been pre-recorded. Live presentation of Children's ITV is launched. ![]() 73 as ITV's Saturday morning children's magazine series for the next three years. 3 May – The first edition of Get Fresh is broadcast.With only a week until October half term was due to start, TV-am launches Wacaday, a spin-off of the existing and successful Saturday morning programme, Wide Awake Club. 3 October – Roland Rat, the puppet rodent who saved an ailing TV-am transfers to the BBC.14 September – Wide Awake Club is extended and now runs for two hours, from 7:30am until 9:25am.The live programme replaces pre-recorded shows such as Data Run and SPLAT. 13 October – TV-am launches a new Saturday morning children's series called the Wide Awake Club.It had been shown the previous year as a regional programme by TVS. 73 launches nationally as ITV's Saturday morning children's show. Roland is generally regarded as TV-am's saviour, being described as "the only rat to join a sinking ship". Created by David Claridge and launched by TV-am Children's editor Anne Wood to entertain younger viewers during the Easter holidays. 1 April – Roland Rat makes his first appearance on TV-am.1 February – ITV's breakfast television service TV-am launches and children's programmes are a major part of the service, especially at the weekend.The links are pre-recorded in advance in a small studio at a London facility called Molinare, using a single locked-off camera and the presenter, usually from the world of children's television, changes on a monthly basis. The slot is presented on a national basis and programmes are linked by an in-vision presenter. Programmes begin 15 minutes earlier, at 4pm, the extra fifteen minutes being filled by a repeat of one of the pre-school programmes shown at lunchtime the same day. 3 January – Children's ITV is launched, replacing Watch It!.It had been aired, albeit originally as a regional programme made by ATV, since 1974. 3 April – The final edition of Saturday morning programme Tiswas is shown on ITV.The programmes are broadcast on weekdays between 4:15pm to 5:15pm and even though the block is produced by ATV, the links are presented live by the duty continuity announcer in each ITV region. ![]()
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