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BBC Kids is the international children's brand of
BBC Studios
BBC Studios is a British content company. It is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that was formed in April 2018 through the merger of the BBC's commercial production arm and the BBC's commercial international distribution arm, BBC Worldwide. ...
, and has been applied to a number of TV services. It draws from the
long history of children's programming on the
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, and is strongly related to the
CBBC
CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the bran ...
channel in the United Kingdom.
History
Canada
The BBC Kids brand was first introduced in Canada with the launch of the
BBC Kids channel on 5 November 2001. It was described as a specialty television service devoted to educational and entertaining programming for children and youth (ages 2–17). Most of the channel's programming was from the UK. The channel was a joint venture between
Alliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis and commonly shortened to simply Alliance or Atlantis and formerly traded as TSX:AAC) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operato ...
and
BBC Worldwide, the BBC's overseas operating arm.
Control was eventually transferred to
Knowledge Network Corporation, a
Crown corporation of the
Government of British Columbia
The Government of British Columbia (french: Gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of British Columbia. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown is the corporation sole, assum ...
with BBC Worldwide retaining its existing interest. On 2 October 2018, a joint statement from
Knowledge Network
Knowledge Network, also branded as British Columbia's Knowledge Network, is a Canadian publicly funded educational cable television network serving the province of British Columbia. It is owned by the Knowledge Network Corporation, a Crown co ...
and BBC announced the channel would cease operations at the stroke of midnight on 1 January 2019. The channel's license was revoked by the CRTC on 10 January 2019, at the request of Knowledge.
Australia
BBC Kids launched on 24 April 2021 on
Fetch TV in response to
Cartoon Network and
Boomerang
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entering an exclusivity agreement with
Foxtel and departing the Fetch lineup. This complemented an existing
CBeebies
CBeebies is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 years and under. Its sister channel CBBC is aimed at older childr ...
channel available in Australia, catering to children aged 0 to 6. The show was launched with popular children's shows from the UK.
Online services
On 11 January 2022, BBC Studios added BBC Kids as an additional channel to the
Pluto TV
Pluto TV is a free, ad-supported video streaming service owned and operated by the Paramount Streaming division of Paramount Global. Co-founded by Tom Ryan, Ilya Pozin and Nick Grouf in 2013 and based in Los Angeles, California, in the United S ...
platform in the United States, both in English (as "BBC Kids") and in Spanish (as "Niños por BBC").
Taiwan Mobile
Taiwan Mobile () is a mobile phone operator based in Taiwan. It is the second largest telecom company behind Chunghwa Telecom.
History
Taiwan Mobile started as part of a strategic divestment from the now defunct Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co ...
myVideo has become the first streaming platform in Asia to launch BBC Kids as a Video on Demand channel, which was launched on 1 July 2022. The channel has included titles that had been previously aired on CBeebies Asia to bring along other titles that was tailored for kids audiences, such as
Spy in the Wild
''Spy in the Wild'' is a British nature documentary television series, produced by BBC Natural History Unit, John Downer Productions and PBS. The series, which is directed and produced by John Downer, premiered in 2017 with a second series in ...
and
Deadly 60
''Deadly...'' is a strand of British wildlife documentary programming aimed principally at children and young people, which is broadcast on CBBC on BBC One and Two and on the CBBC Channel. It is presented by Steve Backshall, with Naomi Wilkinson ...
.
A BBC Kids subscription app service with 100 hours of content became available in South Africa in September 2022, through a partnership of Switch Media and
MTN Group
MTN Group Limited, formerly M-Cell, is a South African multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in many African and Asian countries. Its head office is in Johannesburg. , MTN recorded 280 million subscribers, making it the ...
.
Distribution
Current distribution
Former distribution
References
External links
Australian website
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International BBC television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2001
BBC Worldwide
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