Blog:CBeebies (2016-present)

NOTE: This page is all my opinion, please respect my opinion on modern CBeebies.

CBeebies is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. Its programming is targeted at young children aged 6 and younger with sister channel CBBC aimed at viewers aged over 7. It broadcasts every day from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm, timesharing with BBC Four (which starts at that time). CBeebies also manages an international network supported by subscription services. While the channel was good from 2002 to 2007 and decent from 2007 to 2016, ever since Tweenies was taken off the channel in April 2016, the channel has been going downhill, this era is referred to as the "Dark Age" by fans.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) One of the main problems with the channel nowadays is that BBC doesn't really give any of CBeebies' older shows that much attention to children, due to them focusing too much on their newer shows, to the point where most of them are forgotten by the BBC, as of this writing, Something Special is the oldest show on the channel still airing new episodes, having premiered in 2004, but it is probably caused by the fact the show is a cash-cow.
 * 2) *For example, on the channel's 20th anniversary, they did nothing but mention it on Newsround on 11 February 2022. This is underwhelming because in 2015, during CBBC's 30th anniversary, they aired an entire 1-hour long special for the occasion.
 * 3) Some bad or mediocre shows in this era.
 * 4) There isn't a good amount of variety on the channel, as most of it is either Postman Pat, Something Special or a certain Justin Fletcher show, which is rather repetitive, as only a certain few shows are aired on either the daytime or nighttime variants of the channel but some of them are shows that have already ended which is beating a dead horse and isn't funny at all (This is the case with In The Night Garden where it keeps getting aired constantly despite the fact that the show has stopped making new episodes and had ended a long time since it was showcased in production from 2007 to 2009 with 100 episodes yet CBeebies keeps airing the show to absolutely no end, which is again, beating a dead horse).

Good Qualities

 * 1) The channel does still air some good shows, like mh:besttvshows:Bluey and mh:besttvshows:Charlie and Lola.
 * 2) Unlike Mattel, they do acknowledge most of their older shows and care about them, despite the fact they do not give them that much attention to children, as the official accounts for the channel on Twitter and Facebook occasionally make posts about their older shows, or they even put them on mh:freshwebsites:BBC iPlayer.
 * 3) *As part of Bob the Builder ' s 20th anniversary, they added seasons 6-9 to BBC iPlayer for a limited time.
 * 4) * On top of that, as of November 2020, the entirety of the original Bob the Builder, the first five seasons of Fireman Sam and Mh:besttvshows:Brum became permanently available to watch on said player.

Trivia

 * The station was joined in March 2007 by an audio 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 am to 10:00 pm.