BabyFirstTV

BabyFirstTV
Launched	December 2, 2003
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Slogan	Watch Your Baby Blossom
Language	English Spanish French Turkish German Portuguese Polish
Broadcast area	United States Mexico Europe Asia
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California
Website	BabyFirstTV.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV (United States)	293
Dish Network (United States)	9400
Canal+ (Europe)	39
DishHD (Taiwan)	6555
aora TV Satelit (Indonesia)	114
Orange TV (Indonesia)	???
Cignal Digital TV (Philippines)	Coming Soon
Cable
UPC Poland	Channel 667
Cablevision (Mexico)	304
Euskaltel (Europe)	Channel 80
Comcast	125
SkyCable (Philippines)	Coming Soon
Destiny Cable (Philippines)	Coming Soon
Cablelink (Philippines)	Coming Soon
IPTV
Mio TV (Singapore)	Channel 246
UniFi (Malaysia)	131
SkyAngel (United States)	308

BabyFirstTV is a commercial-free premium satellite TV Network aimed at 6-month-old to 5-year-old children. Its investors include Regency Enterprises, Bellco Capital, LLC & Kardan N.V.. Guy Oranim & Sharon Rechter created BabyFirstTV in 2003.

Availability

From May 2006 until January 15, 2012, DirecTV offered the channel à la carte for $4.99 per month; and as of January 16, 2012 it is free to all subscribers. Until early 2011, Dish Network customers also paid $4.99 a month for the channel. In mid-January, the channel was briefly replaced with BabyTV. Following a Facebook campaign by disgruntled subscribers, BabyFirstTV was restored to Dish Network. BabyTV will remain as a pay channel, but BabyFirstTV is now available to all subscribers of Dish Network free of charge on Channel 823.

Baby First TV is additionally an associate member of the Caribbean Cable Cooperative.

In Europe, the channel is available under various satellite networks such as CanalSat & Digital+. The European versions of the channel transmit programs dubbed in French, Spanish, German, Turkish & Polish. The shows sometimes omit their titles.

In Indonesia, BabyFirst TV available on aora TV Satelit (Ch. 114) & Orange TV In Singapore, the channel is available on SingTel & mio TV. Soon, Babyfirst TV,KidsCo and Yoshimoto Azio will go off air on mio TV Service soon due to Nick Jr and Nickelodeon and CCTV9 Documentary has replaced these 3 channel on its service.

In the Maldives, it is available on TV Cabo & has nothing to do with the pre-existing "Baby TV". A DVD is available in a couple of continents, like Europe.

In Jamaica, the channel is available on The Flow cable network.

In the United Kingdom, most of the shows are redubbed with British voice actors, replacing the American English soundtrack.

Also in the United Kingdom, on the 15th of May 2010, Baby First TV went off air. It still shows in America and European countries. There is not a reason for it going off air.

BabyFirstTV has no connection with "BabyTV" or with any other older TV channels with various similar names.

Programs

Shows on BFTV are divided into 7 zones, each identified by a color & by a learning strategy. The names & programs within’ each zone are listed below. One program entitled iHola Bebe! is dedicated to popular BabyFirstTV Programming in Spanish. As the entire schedule is designed to be viewed by toddlers & infants, a blanket TV-Y rating is applied through the entire broadcast day. A new segment Babyfirst TV FYI provides tips and information for Parents and Babies/Toddlers Along with Babies of the Week in which viewers send their photo of their babies and toddlers online to BabyfirstTV.com. to be selected to be shown on BabyfirstTV. (Note-Not all programs that are listed here are broadcasted on most BabyfirstTV networks)

Thinking Journey (Yellow)

• Tillie Knock Knock (starring the voice of Kate Harbour as Tillie & Jim Wise as additional voices)
• Fred & Fiona (starring Brad Mossman as the voice of Fred & Ashley Yaccarino as the voice of Fiona)
• Joey's Toy Box (starring Taylor Masamitsu as Joey & Hynden Walch as Joey's mother)
• Bonnie Bear (starring the voices of Ashley Yaccarino as Bonnie, Ty Olsson as Mr. Gramophone & Kate Harbour as additional voices)
• Puzzles (starring Brad Mossman as the voice of the Puzzle Kid)
• Booby & Booba
• What’s Different? (starring Brad Mossman as narrator)
• Magic Tunnels
• Wonder Box
• Scuba Dots
• Baby Maze (starring Kate Harbour as Hedgehog)
• Dot to Dots
• Tinosaurs (starring Todd Neilson as narrator)
• Brainy Baby
• Atención, Atención

Language Playground (Red)

• Harry the Bunny (starring the voice of Jamie Oram as Harry the Bunny and Brad Mossman as singing voice)
• BabyFirst Tales
• Hide & Seek (starring Brad Mossman as Sammy & Ashley Yaccarino as Eve)
• Ready, Dress, Go! (starring the voice of Ashley Yaccarino as Girl & Kate Harbour as Boy)
• Tell Me A Story (starring the voice of Jim Wise as the narrator)
• I Can Sign!
• VocabuLARRY (starring Tom Kenny as Larry and Brad Mossman as Additional Voices)
• The Yoyo & Peanut Show (starring Brad Mossman as Yoyo & Robert Tinkler as Peanut)
• Safari Scrapbook
• My Pop-Up Book
• Kids Love Spanish

Imagination Lane (Pink)

• Rainbow Horse (starring the voice of Kate Harbour as all of the voices)
• Kaleidoscope
• Petey Paintbrush (starring Brad Mossman as Petey)
• Color Symphony (music by The Morcheitz Band Orchestra)
• Teletubbies
• Mio Mao
• Picture Pad (starring Sonya Leite as the narrator)
• The Notekins (starring the voices of Lachele Carl, Kate Harbour, Rob Rackstraw, Neil Morrissey, Brad Mossman, Ashley Yaccarino, Ty Olsson, William Dufris, Marc Silk, Lorelei King, Todd & Sheryl Neilson, Tyler Seidenberg, Allyce Beasley, Sonya Leite, Colin McFarlane, and Jamie Oram)
• Lil’ Vinnie’s Art (starring Lorelei King as Lil' Vinnie)
• Juno Jr.
• Bop-A-Lots (starring Ty Olsson as Huggy, Dee Bradley Baker and Marc Silk as Silly, and Kate Harbour as Sugar)
• Musti (starring Lachele Carl as Musti and Larry Brantley, Adam Deibert, Dave Poche and Lorelei King as additional voices),
• Boohbah
• Shushybye Baby
• Clay World (starring Kate Harbour as the voices)
• Swing and Sing
• Bobby's Balloon House (starring Greg Proops as Bobby)
• Bloop & Loop (starring Kate Harbour as Bloop and Frankie Ryan Manriquez as Loop)
• Color Crew (starring Larry Brantley, Dave Willingham, and Sonya Leite as the voices)
• Arty Party (starring Lorelei King as the narrator)
• The Classic Nursery Rhymes Collection
• Sukey's Circle!

Feelings Garden (Orange)

• Friendly Jack (starring Sam Moran & Rich Collins as Jack)
• Squeak
• Play With Me!
• Tec The Tractor (starring Carlos Alazraqui)
• Junglies
• Sali Mali
• Plons The Frog

Numbers Parade (Blue)

• Numbers Around the Globe (starring the voice of Brad Mossman as the narrator)
• Numbers Farm (starring Allyce Beasley as the voice of Peep and Jennifer Seguin, Donald Faison, Tyler Seidenberg, Alan Marriott, Brad Mossman, William Dufris and Adam Deibert as the additional voices)
• Number Time (starring Tom Kenny as the narrator)
• Shapes & Sizes (starring Katherine Soucie
• Shape-A-Majigs (starring Ashley Yaccarino as the voice of Maddie & Brad Mossman as the voice of Zeke)
• Widget & His Wonder Machine (starring Brad Mossman as Widget & Rick Miller as the Wonder Machine)

Sensory Wonderland (Green)

• Baby D.I.Y.
• My Gym At Home
• Black & White
• Peek-A-Boo, I See You! (starring Haruka Kuroda as Peekaboo)
• Safari Scrapbook (starring Tom Kenny as narrator)
• Two Tone Motion (including the voice of Kate Harbour & Robert Rackstraw)

Rainbow Dreams (Rainbow Colors)

• Sandman
• Pixies
• Color Symphony
• Scuba Dots
• Carousel Dreams
• Flow
• Wave
• Lullabies
• Black & White
• Mobile Dreams
• Safari Scrapbook
• Night Night Lullaby
• Kalidoscope Dreams

Upcoming Programs

• Sukey's Circle
• Color Crew
• 2x-Twice the Fun
• Musti (New episodes animated in 3-D)

Former Programs

• Bonny, Banana & Mo
• Danny & Daddy (starring the voices of Carlos Alazraqui as Danny and Brad Mossman as Daddy)
• Dougie in Disguise
• Foodie Fables
• Wizadora
• Honk, Toot and Swo-Swoosh
• Tik Tak
• Shadow Stories
• Sali Mali
• Hopla
• Kids Love Spanish
• The Singing Kettle
• Disney's Baby Einstein
• Boo!
• Barney (TV series) (The UK Animated series)
• Musti (1990's animated series)
• The Junglies
• Plons The Frog

External links

• Official site