ITV Digital Channels
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| June 9 2025 | The children's block on ITV2 is reduced to under two hours, airing from 6:00 am to 7:45 am. |
| June 2025 | Planned replacement of ITVBe with ITV Quiz channel. |
| May 2025 | ITV's current period of televising FA Cup games ends after the 2025 final. |
| January 2025 | ITV will show live league football for the first time since 1996, broadcasting five matches from the EFL Championship in the second half of the 2024-25 season. |
| 2024 | ITV will resume live coverage of the England men's football team. |
| May 31 2024 | LittleBe is broadcast for the final time on ITVBe, with programmes moving to ITVX. |
| October 1 2023 | CITV's 602 Freesat slot is removed, a month after the channel's closure. |
| September 2 2023 | A daily CITV programming block introduced on ITV2 from 05:00 to 09:00. |
| September 1 2023 | CITV channel closed, with programming moved to streaming service ITVX. |
| August 27 2023 | CITV children's block is broadcast on the ITV network for the final time, ending the Children's ITV/CITV strand after 40 years and withdrawing the last regular scheduled provision of children's programmes on the network. |
| July 20 2023 | BBC and ITV begin broadcasting the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, with both networks providing live coverage of the same number of games, including the final. |
| March 10 2023 | ITV Plc announces plans to wind down the CITV channel and transition children's programming to a predominantly online model. |
| October 2022 | ITV replaces Channel 4 as the terrestrial broadcaster of rugby union's Heineken Cup. |
| September 9 2022 | Terrestrial NFL coverage returns to ITV after seven years on the BBC, including rights to two NFL London Games and the Super Bowl. |
| August 21 2022 | ITV shows the first of ten games from LaLiga. |
| July 31 2022 | Highlights rights for the English Football League and League Cup move to ITV from Quest. |
| January 30 2022 | Premiership Rugby returns to ITV screens after a five-year absence, with ITV set to show 12 live matches over two years, including the Premiership Final. |
| November 7 2021 | The FA Cup returns to ITV in a new shared rights deal with the BBC, marking the first time since 1989 that the competition is shown fully on terrestrial television. |
| September 17 2021 | ITV broadcasts coverage of the England women's football team for the first time. |
| August 7 2021 | The FA Community Shield returns to ITV Sport's coverage. |
| June 13 2021 | ITV broadcasts the French Open tennis tournament for the final time before Eurosport gains exclusive rights. |
| April 11 2021 | The final edition of Scrambled! children's programming block airs on ITV. |
| August 20 2020 | Sale of Merit lifestyle channel to Sky. |
| January 2020 | The Store shopping channel removed from Freeview. |
| January 24 2020 | Closure of ITV Box Office pay-per-view sports channel. |
| October 2019 | CITV partners with the BFI in their Young Audiences Content Fund to deliver more UK originated programming. |
| March 19 2019 | ITV televises a new snooker tournament - the Tour Championship - bringing its annual top snooker tournament broadcasts to four, with deals running until 2022. |
| January 1 2019 | Removal of The Store shopping channel from Freeview. |
| December 2018 | ITV and Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions sign a three-year agreement to show at least 15 boxing events on ITV Box Office and ITV4. |
| September 3 2018 | LittleBe launches on ITVBe, airing from 9 am to 12 pm on weekends and weekdays. Sooty is moved from CITV to LittleBe, targeting 2-6 year-olds. |
| May 1 2018 | Closure of ITV Encore drama channel. |
| August 9 2017 | ITV and ITV4 broadcast the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup live, with the final shown on the main ITV channel. |
| January 1 2017 | ITV takes over from Channel 4 as the exclusive terrestrial broadcaster of horse racing, covering nearly 100 days of racing annually - the first time since 1988 the sport was shown on ITV. |
| February 21 2016 | CITV's broadcast hours are extended into the early evening, with programmes continuing until 9pm rather than 6pm. |
| January 7 2015 | CITV withdraws from all of its pre-school programmes from both its weekday and weekend schedules, with the exception of Sooty. |
| 2014 | ITV expanded its channel portfolio with the launch of ITV Encore (a drama channel) and ITVBe (a reality and lifestyle channel). |
| June 9 2014 | Launch of ITV Encore, a drama channel. |
| March 17 2014 | ITV becomes the broadcaster of the new Formula E series, showing 10 events on ITV4, including the 2015 championship. |
| January 18 2014 | The first edition of weekend breakfast show Scrambled! airs. |
| January 14 2013 | CITV gets a new logo to match its rebranded sister channels. |
| January 7 2013 | The Mini CITV name and the Mini mascots are dropped from on-screen use. |
| December 21 2012 | CITV goes live for the first time in six years with a special 45-minute edition of Text Santa. |
| September 23 2012 | ITV launches a new documentary series called Sports Life Stories. |
| June 2012 | ITV Sport becomes the terrestrial broadcaster of the French Open tennis tournament, providing full live coverage primarily on ITV4 - the first time since 1968 ITV has shown one of the sport's big four tournaments. |
| December 26 2010 | The final edition of Toonattik airs on CITV. |
| October 2010 | ITV returns to snooker by broadcasting a new tournament called Power Snooker and subsequently signs a deal to show the next three events. |
| July 2010 | ITV shows live coverage of every stage of the Tour de France for the first time, expanding beyond weekend-only coverage. |
| April 1 2010 | Men & Motors finally closed on Sky and Freesat to make way for a permanent EPG position for ITV HD. |
| March 25 2010 | Men & Motors closed on Virgin Media. |
| February 2010 | ITV begins showing live cricket coverage of the Indian Premier League for the first time since 1970, securing a four-year deal and highlighting the 2010/11 Ashes series. |
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