CITV is a British television channel. It is broadcast by Sky Digital, Virgin Media, and Freesat. It was released on 17 December 1981. It became available on Freeview in May 2006. It was also released on Sky in May and NTL on 6 June. Both the analogue and the Sky versions were released on Virgin Media's Virtual Menu on 19 May 2007. The analogue version was removed from the platform in 2011 and only the Sky version remained available on the platform's Virtual Menu.