Welcome to our regular look at what's on 91Èȱ¬ Red Button. Here we take a look at the next three weeks...
CBeebies Red Button
Younger viewers and grown-ups with a sense of
adventure may have noticed something new under the red button recently.
That's because our CBeebies service has just seen a radical overhaul launching
visitors into a big, bright and fun new world.
So what has changed?
Well, your children's favourite characters are now at the heart of the CBeebies
interactive TV experience. A big, new and bright carousel now welcomes you
into the service giving you easy access to games, other children's interactive
services such as karaoke or quizzes, birthdays and star of the week messages.
Different Games
Reflecting the popularity of games for the young audience, a new range of
activities has been specially created. The updated service brings with it
brand new games for some of the most popular shows on CBeebies, including
In The Night Garden and The Green Balloon Club. These new
games replace the old ones, which had become increasingly outdated.
Satellite, cable and digital terrestrial viewers will have slightly different
offerings from one another. This has enabled us to offer the best games
tailored to each system. Cable viewers will see the changes soon.
91Èȱ¬ Children's producer Damian Vicary discusses the service in more detail
this week on the Press
Red blog.
CBeebies Red Button is available now on the CBeebies
channel, and via page 5900 on other channels.
Sky, Freeview and coming soon to Virgin.
(not available on Freesat)
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It's been seven years since CBeebies hit the digital airwaves, and ever since it first went live the red button offering on the channel has remained, to all intents and purposes, the same - bar one or two minor facelifts. All of that is to about to change with the launch of the brand new CBeebies Red Button service.
From this week, pressing the red button while watching the CBeebies channel will launch you into a big, bright, loud and fun new world.
So, what's changed?
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Over the last few days we've been looking at how the CBeebies service on 91Èȱ¬ Red Button has changed over the years. In part 1, it was a trip in the time machine to the first service in 2002 and yesterday in part two, we looked at the revamp from 2004 which introduced a castle design on satellite and a bus on the cable version.
The castle and bus designs weren't based on the main CBeebies channel branding so when, in March 2007, the CBeebies channel got a new look, the decision was taken to bring the red button services much closer to the channel in visual appearance.
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Yesterday we began a tour showing how the 91Èȱ¬ Red Button CBeebies service has changed and evolved over the years, starting with the initial service from 2002.
The original service featured games and stories, however in 2004 it was decided to redesign CBeebies to add in some more content, and give the whole thing a brand new look.
On Sky, the rather orange homepage was replaced by what became, affectionately known (for rather obvious reasons) as "The Castle".
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In 2002 a new channel hit the airwaves as CBeebies was born. Since day one, the CBeebies red button service has been a key part of the proposition, providing games and stories to young children.
It's also been the service which our designers have been able to make the most visually rich services. Anyone who has ever met a 3 year old will be able to guess that a page full of text probably isn't what you want in order to engage them. So we've tried to make the CBeebies service a lot more visual and colourful than the average 91Èȱ¬ Red Button page.
The actual designs have varied between our different platforms too. Normally we've try to keep visual designs similar between platforms, so if you've use the News Multiscreen on a Sky set top box, the Freeview version won't look a million miles away. However with CBeebies we've played a lot more with the design, when we can. For example, on Sky and Virgin Media we have more capacity for fancier graphics than we do on Freeview.
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Here's our fortnightly look at what's coming up under the red button...
Reading & Leeds 2009
Here at 91Èȱ¬ Red Button this August Bank Holiday
weekend we're packing our bags and heading for Reading to bring you best
of this year's festival.
Presented by Radio 1's Huw Stephens, we'll be covering the cream of the
crop from the Main Stage and the Radio 1/NME Stage. Each day will also feature
either Jo Whiley, Daniel P Carter or Mike Davies talking to their favourite
band and exploring the Reading site, plus some surprise acoustic and 91Èȱ¬
Introducing tracks.
Live festival coverage runs from 7pm to 1am on Friday 28th to Sunday 30th
August while from Bank Holiday Monday to the following Friday we'll bring
you a new standout set each day from the best bands at the festival.
Weekend coverage: Friday 28th - Sunday 30th August (7pm - 1am, nightly)
Festival Highlights: Monday 31st August - Friday 4th September (available
around the clock)
Sky, Virgin & Freeview
(not available on Freesat)
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