Channel 4 Nightime

In 1987, Channel 4 started staying up late, initially only at the weekend, and a special ident was briefly used. It was in early 1988 that the channel broadcast into the early hours seven days a week offering an alternative to the programming on ITV as that network started extending broadcasting hours at around the same time, on a region-by-region basis, ahead of the entire ITV network being on air all night by autumn 1988.