ITV confirms launch date for kids channel

ITV's new free-to-air children's channel will launch next February, the broadcaster confirmed today.

The station, which is still to be named, will be available across all platforms from February 11, 2006 during the downtime of new male offering ITV4.

Programming will be drawn mostly from the ITV library, which includes originally-produced drama, entertainment, animation, factual and pre-school shows.

The channel is headed by Estelle Hughes, Editor of CiTV.