Discovery Kids is an Indian children's television channel owned by

Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific Warner Bros. Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery that operates several television channels in Asia and Australasia, along with the Discovery+ streaming service. In April 2022, WarnerMedia Entertainment Netw ...

, a division of

Warner Bros. Discovery International Warner Bros. Discovery International, formerly known as Turner Broadcasting System International and WarnerMedia International, is an international unit of Warner Bros. Discovery led by president Gerhard Zeiler. Divisions Asia-Pacific * 9R ...

, which is owned by

Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at 230 Park Avenue South in New York City. It was formed after the spin-off of WarnerMedia by AT&T, and its merger with D ...

. The channel launched on 7 August 2012.

History

Discovery Kids is the first channel in the kids' genre in India by Discovery Networks Asia Pacific launched on 7 August 2012. Earlier it was the name of an Infotainment and edutainment kids programming block on

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which ran from 2001 to 2005. It is the eighth channel launched by

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. The initial programming lineup consisted of a mix of animation and live action series under multiple genres such as adventure, mythology, nature, history and science. Discovery India announced plans to revamp the channel in 2018 with new IPs. The revamp began the same day

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launched by removing all existing shows, except for ''

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'' at night and airing

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's ''Bandbudh Aur Budbak'' the whole day. On 16 February 2018, the channel changed its logo to the current

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logo. To expand its reach in the South, Discovery Kids launched a

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audio track on 24 March 2018, and later a

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audio track on 1 April 2018. The revamp was ultimately completed on 21 April 2018, the same day as the premiere of Discovery's latest local animation property called ''

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'', based on the original ''

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'' film from 2011. The show launched with 156 episodes and five TV feature films. The English dubbed version started airing in July as a gradual rollout.kannada and malayalam were added on 19 october 2019 Discovery Kids saw an increase in ratings since the release of ''Bandbudh Aur Budbak'' on the channel. The launch of ''

'' helped the channel to achieve second position in the kids genre, with a reach of 24 million and 111 minutes per viewer.

Programming

References

External links

Official Facebook page
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History

Programming

See also

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