BBC Kids

BBC Kids is the international children's brand of BBC Studios,[1] and has been applied to a number of TV services. It draws from the long history of children's programming on the BBC, and is strongly related to the CBBC channel in the United Kingdom.

BBC Kids
Programming
Language(s)English
Ownership
OwnerBBC Studios

History

2001-2018
Main article: BBC Kids (Canadian TV channel)

2021-present
Main article: BBC Kids (Australian TV channel)

On 30 April 2020, Disney closed their Australian children's channels (Disney Channel and Disney Junior), and Cartoon Network and Boomerang became bound to an exclusive agreement with Foxtel in 2021. This left Fetch TV with little children's content. In response it commissioned BBC Studios to create a domestic BBC Kids channel.[2] The channel launched on 24 April 2021.[3] This complemented an existing CBeebies channel available in Australia, catering to children aged 0 to 6. At launch, all the programming of BBC Kids was already airing in the Australian market on ABC Me.

On January 11, 2022, BBC Studios added BBC Kids as an additional channel to the Pluto TV platform in the United States, both in English (as "BBC Kids") and in Spanish (as "Niños por BBC").[4]

Taiwan Mobile myVideo has become the first streaming platform in Asia to launch BBC Kids as a Video on Demand channel, which was launched on July 1, 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 and Deadly 60.[5]

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.[6]

Distribution

Current distribution
Launch date Country
April 24, 2021  Australia
January 11, 2022  United States
July 1, 2022  Taiwan
September 1, 2022  South Africa

Former distribution
Launch date Closed Country
November 5, 2001 December 31, 2018  Canada

References
  1. "Princess Mirror-Belle returns to CBBC November 21st". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  2. "BBC Kids and Nick Music to join Fetch". Mumbrella. 22 March 2021. Archived from the original on 24 March 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  3. Perry, Kevin (22 March 2021). "FETCH adds BBC Kids and Nick Music after FOXTEL secures WB channels". TV Blackbox. Archived from the original on 24 March 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  4. Shah, Zeenya. "BBC Studios brings two kids channels to Pluto". Kidscreen.
  5. "BBC Studios旗下兒童品牌BBC Kids搶進亞洲 7/1上線MyVideo 超人氣作品《阿奇幼幼園》《莎拉與乖乖鴨》《動物秘密一籮筐》陪孩子過暑假". Taiwan Mobile myVideo (in Chinese). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  6. "BBC Kids to launch in South Africa". Retrieved 16 November 2022.
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