Tiny Pop

Tiny Pop
Launched 27 July 2004
Owned by Sony Pictures Television
Picture format 16:9/4:3, 576i (SDTV)
Audience share 0.2%
~0.0% (+1) (September 2014, BARB)
Replaced Pop Plus
Sister channel(s) Bliss
Chart Show Dance
Chart Show TV
Flava
Kix
Pop
Pop Girl
Scuzz
Starz TV
True Movies 1
True Movies 2
True Drama
True Entertainment
The Vault
Timeshift service Tiny Pop +1
Website http://www.tinypop.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview Channel 126
Satellite
Freesat Channel 605
Channel 609 (+1)
Sky Channel 617
Channel 625 (+1)
Eutelsat 28A 11307 V 27500 2/3
11307 V 27500 2/3 (+1)
Cable
WightFibre Channel 104
Virgin Media Channel 737
Smallworld Cable Channel 737
Streaming media
Sky Go Watch live
(UK and Ireland only)

Tiny Pop is a free-to-air children's television channel in the United Kingdom, owned by CSC Media Group, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television. Broadcast on many of the major digital television platforms in the UK, its target audience is children aged from 4 to 6.[1] The station broadcasts principally animated content sourced from various distributors. In the past, the channel has screened music videos, but these now rarely appear.

History

Tiny Pop is a sister channel to Pop, which was launched on 29 May 2003. Tiny Pop is a replacement for the retired station Pop Plus, which was originally a secondary channel of Pop. Tiny Pop is aimed at a very young audience (similar to CBeebies). Tiny Pop has two further sister channels: Pop Girl was launched on 6 August 2007, and Kix was launched on 19 May 2008, when it replaced Pop +1, the 1-hour timeshift of Pop.

As with other CSC channels, on-screen presenters are rarely used: programmes are introduced either by caption and voiceover alone, or through animated characters. For a time during the mid-00s, a group of animated monkeys, known as the Cheeky Monkeys, would talk about cartoons, read out jokes from viewers and show artwork; from the end of June 2009, they were replaced with 3 new hosts, Molly, Leo and Pip.

Tiny Pop initially broadcast on satellite TV - Sky (now channel 617) from the channel's launch, and Freesat (channel 605) from the launch of the platform in 2008.

On 11 October 2007, Tiny Pop was launched on Virgin Media, along with its sister channel Pop. Although Pop was removed in 2011, Tiny Pop still remains available. The station has also been made available over other cable systems.

On 23 October 2014, Tiny Pop was launched on Freeview, running daily from 3pm to 7pm in a slot timeshared with the Community Channel. On the 7th January 2015, Tiny Pop was launched fully on DTT and now broadcast 21 hours a day (0300-0000) on Freeview. Round-the-clock service continues on satellite and cable.

Prior to January 2015, the channel had broadcast billed programmes from 0600 to 2230, teleshopping content from 2230 to 0130, and a 'Through the Night' programming block from 0130 to 0600. From 1 January 2015, the schedule changed to run billed content from 0600 to 0000, with 'Through the Night' for the remaining six hours, with the teleshopping block dropped; sister channel POP had also removed its prior teleshopping block ahead of its move onto Freeview.

Programming

According to CSC Media, as of June 2014 Tiny Pop's "defining programmes" are:[1]


The showreel on CSC Media's Tiny Pop page also includes extracts from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, The Adventures of Chuck and Friends, Topsy Turvy Tales and Maya the Bee.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Tiny Pop". CSC Media Group. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

External links