CITV is a British children's morning programming block on ITV2 and previously a free to air channel owned by ITV plc. CITV, then Children's ITV, launched on 3 January 1983 as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 6–12. It replaced the earlier Watch It! branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio up until 1987, when Central won the contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios. In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada in Manchester, which saw the demise of in-vision continuity. Nine years later, the operations moved to ITV Granada's MediaCityUK studios in Salford it used to air Inspector Gadget [1983 Series] and the 2015 Reboot in the UK.
CITV is not to be confused with the Global Television Network affiliate in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - despite that it also aired the 1983 Inspector Gadget series on weekends for many years.