| Pop | |
|---|---|
| Launched | May 29, 2003 |
| Owned by | CSC Media Group |
| Picture format | 16:9, 4:3, 576i (SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.1% (June 2011, BARB) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Formerly called | Toons & Tunes (Until June 2003) |
| Sister channel(s) | Tiny Pop Pop Girl Kix! |
| Website | popfun.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Freesat | Channel 603 |
| Sky | Channel 616 |
| Eurobird 1 | 11307V 27500 2/3 |
Pop (previously known as Toons and Tunes) is a free-to-air television channel in the UK, broadcasting cartoons and pop music videos. It is owned by CSC Media Group, and launched on 29 May 2003.
Its sister channel Tiny Pop, which was launched on 27 July 2004, is for pre-schoolers. Its second sister channel Pop Girl was launched on 6 August 2007, and also shows cartoons and live action shows but is aimed at a more female audience. Its third sister channel, Kix! was launched on 19 May 2008, and also shows cartoons but is aimed at a more male and teen audience.
Pop broadcasts on Sky and Freesat. With the channel being commercial-free, the channel's mascots — two cartoon characters — talk about upcoming cartoons, introduce competitions, read viewers' jokes and show viewers' artwork. The characters are a dragon called Rorry (identical to "Tricky", who "presented" a Saturday morning show on ITV in 1997), and his pet cat called Purrdy (again, taken from the Saturday morning show).
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Pop's logo originally consisted of the word 'pop' in blue writing, with a red background. When shown on the channel, the logo was animated, with balloons floating past the letters, or the letters themselves becoming balloons. It changed in October 2006 to a multi-coloured letters and background animation with stars. The letters became all caps, and an exclamation mark was added. In September 2009, it was changed once again. This time having white letters on an orange background.
Launched on 29 May 2003, it was known as Toons and Tunes for just a month, when it was changed to Pop in June 2003.
Originally, the channel was mainly music videos until February 2004, when cartoons were first shown. Music videos were kept on the channel, but were then dropped entirely during mid-2006. They were later revived in early 2007, but only during a 60 minute slot called "Pop Party".
In October 2006, a further change was added: Now the all cap letters ("!" included) are in 3D and are shown dancing or chasing each other and eventually spelling out the logo "POP!". This ident was set to music very similar to "Benny Hill", though this was changed after a few months, perhaps due to the similarity.
Some of the programmes on Pop have previously screened on other UK channels (and hence it's assumed that the previous rights to show have lapsed); some have not been screened in the UK before. In some cases, the channel which previously broadcast a programme is now defunct (such as TCC, Discovery Kids and Toonami).
On 11 October 2007, Pop was launched onto Virgin Media, along with its sister channel Tiny Pop. Pop was removed from Virgin Media on 28 February 2011 so that True Entertainment could launch.[1]
In 2008, Pop was made available on the then newly-launched Freesat platform.
There are a selection of programmes that broadcast on Pop:
Coming SoonFormer programmesPop Party"Pop Party" is a selection of music videos aired on Pop, usually in the form of a 30 or 60 minute programming block. It has aired in a number of positions in the schedule, currently airing at 12pm and 9pm. CSC Media licences the Pop Party name and brand for use on a series of pop music compilations released by Universal Music's compilations arm U.M.T.V. Pop JuniorSince 12 May 2008, a new block was introduced called "Pop Junior", which has the word "Junior" added to the channel's logo between 9am and 12pm every weekday during school term time. The block shows programmes aimed at the younger end of Pop's audience, such as Inspector Gadget or Fraggle Rock. Current events
Previous eventsThese events have been aired occasionally:
WebsitePop's website includes a TV guide and more features such as quizzes, art galleries, jokes, games and competitions. This was launched shortly after Tiny Pop's website. Pop +1 closureThe AGB Nielsen Media Research website first announced that Pop+1 would close and would be replaced by a new channel called Klix!,[13] however, this was a mistake and the channel was now in fact called Kix!. The correction was made with a new article being posted. It was stated that all the other details will remain the same of which was posted in the original article.[14] Pop+1 officially closed at 6.00am on Monday 19 May, when it was replaced with Kix!. See alsoReferences
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