It's just a 1 minute thing which the station puts on to show "Big Dog", a bloke in a big cartoony looking dog suit, getting ready for bed and "Miss Kim" blows him a kiss and turns out the light. It comes on at 7.30pm.

"It's time now for Big Dog and all his friends to go to bed. Goodnight Big Dog. Goodnight boys and girls."

It doesn't have anything which makes the kids sleepy. It's just a psychological trigger which cluey parents use to train their kids.

I know of some parents who have taped it and they sneakily play the tape at 6pm or thereabouts to get their kids to think it is bedtime.

Helen