By February 1992, the first on-screen effects of the licence loss became obvious, with TV-am closing its in-house news service and contracting it out to Sky News for a one-off payment. Children's programming also suffered, with fewer appearances of Timmy Mallett, though Wacaday would continue to appear during major school holidays until TV-am's close. Another impact was the abrupt cancellation after just six weeks of the Chris Evans-hosted Saturday morning strand "TV-Mayhem", which had initially been commissioned for a 40-week run, and its replacement with presented-out-of-vision back-to-back cartoons strand "Cartoon World" on Saturdays from 8 am (extended to 7:30 am later in the year).