Editing Channel 4 (section)

==== ITV Schools on Channel 4 ====
{{main|ITV Schools on Channel 4}}

Since 1957 ITV had produced schools programming, which became an obligation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schoolstv.com/itvschoolsonitv_history.shtml?1 |title=schoolsTV.com – ITV for SCHOOLS & COLLEGES – HISTORY |access-date=16 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706195151/http://www.schoolstv.com/itvschoolsonitv_history.shtml?1|archive-date=6 July 2007}}</ref> In 1987, five years after the station was launched, the IBA afforded ITV free carriage of these programmes during Channel 4's then-unused weekday morning hours. This arrangement allowed the ITV companies to fulfil their obligation to provide schools programming, whilst allowing ITV itself to broadcast regular programmes complete with advertisements. During the times in which schools programmes were aired [[ITV Central|Central Television]] provided most of the [[continuity (broadcasting)|continuity]] with play-out originating from Birmingham.<ref name="itvschools">{{cite web|date=6 July 2007|title=schoolsTV.com – ITV SCHOOLS on CHANNEL 4 – HISTORY|url=http://www.schoolstv.com/itvschoolson4_history.shtml?1|access-date=26 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706195104/http://www.schoolstv.com/itvschoolson4_history.shtml?1|archive-date=6 July 2007}}</ref>