Editing CBeebies (section)

==History==
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On 20 November 2001, the CBeebies name was officially revealed as part of the split of the already-existing CBBC block and would be used as both a children's block and a digital channel.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.c21media.net/news/pickard-unveils-bbcs-kids-plans/ | title=Pickard unveils BBC's kids plans }}</ref>

The CBeebies channel launched on 11 February 2002 alongside the [[CBBC|CBBC channel]], as a spinoff from [[BBC Children's and Education|the BBC's children's television strand]]. The first four shows to air on the channel were ''[[Teletubbies]]'', ''[[Binka]]'', ''[[Step Inside]]'' and ''[[Bits and Bobs]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/feb/11/broadcasting.bbc|title=What Auntie did next|author=Maggie Brown|date=11 February 2002|access-date=4 April 2016|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/displayinfo.php?id=4586|title=Digital Spy - CBeebies: Monday, February 11, 2002|work=[[Digital Spy]]|access-date=3 December 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030621103003/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/displayinfo.php?id=4586|archive-date=21 June 2003}}</ref> CBeebies domestically broadcasts from 5:30&nbsp;am to 7:00&nbsp;pm, broadcasting six days per week. From the launch of the channel until 1 March 2002, CBeebies timeshared with fellow BBC channel [[BBC Knowledge]] but since 2 March 2002, it now timeshares with [[BBC Four]], which is on air after CBeebies closes for the night at 7:00&nbsp;pm.<ref>{{cite web|title=CBeebies – what we do|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/articles/cbeebies|publisher=BBC|access-date=4 April 2016}}</ref>

CBeebies was joined in March 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=asc&q=cbeebies&svc=9371564#search|title=Search Results – BBC Genome|publisher=BBC|access-date=21 July 2017}}</ref> by its own radio station, aptly named ''CBeebies Radio'', which broadcast for three hours each day on [[BBC Radio 7]] until April 2011. CBeebies Radio, however, has continued as a feature on CBeebies' website since 2013, and as a station on [[BBC Sounds]] broadcasting from 6:00&nbsp;am to 10:00&nbsp;pm. A ''CBeebies Weekly'' magazine, now named just ''CBeebies Magazine'', was first published in 2006.

Since March 2013, CBeebies has been carried by the [[British Forces Broadcasting Service]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfbs.com/tv/node/823536|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017201105/http://www.bfbs.com/tv/node/823536|url-status=dead|title=How to Watch TV on Ops &#124; BFBS Television|archivedate=17 October 2012|website=www.bfbs.com}}</ref> CBeebies is also available in Ireland.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

In September 2018 as part of a branding strategy, [[BBC Alba]]'s unbranded two-hour children's block was split into CBeebies Alba and [[CBBC Alba]], with the former airing during the first hour and the latter airing during the second hour. This block features its own presentation, presenters and shows in [[Scottish Gaelic]]. The only presenter shared between the CBeebies Alba block and CBeebies channel is [[Warrick Brownlow-Pike#Dodge T. Dog|Dodge T. Dog]], who appears on an occasional basis.

On 15 March 2023, CBeebies rebranded its channel identity, in line with a wider corporate rebranding across the BBC starting in 2021. This was CBeebies' first rebrand, retiring the logo that the channel had used since its launch 21 years earlier. The new style featured a new logo in line with the BBC's 2021 logo, as well as a revamped appearance of the "Bugbie" characters that had been part of the channel's identity since launch.