Tiny Pop
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| Launched | 27 July 2004 |
| Owned by | CSC Media Group |
| Picture format | 16:9/4:3, 576i (SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.1% 0.0% (+1) (June 2011, BARB) |
| Replaced | Pop Plus |
| Sister channel(s) | Bliss Chart Show TV Dance Nation TV Flava Scuzz The Vault Kix! Pop Pop Girl True Entertainment True Movies 1 True Movies 2 |
| Timeshift service | Tiny Pop+1 |
| Website | http://www.tinypop.com |
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| Satellite | |
| Freesat | Channel 605 |
| Sky | Channel 617 Channel 625 (+1) |
| Eurobird 1 | 11307V 27500 2/3 |
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| Virgin Media | Channel 737 |
Tiny Pop is a free-to-air television channel in the UK. It is owned by CSC Media Group, and launched on 24 July 2004, and broadcasts cartoons and pop music videos for pre-schoolers.
Its sister channel is Pop which was launched on 29 May 2003. Tiny Pop is a replacement for the now-defunct Pop Plus, which was originally a secondary channel of Pop, but Tiny Pop is aimed at a younger audience (similar to CBeebies). Tiny Pop's second sister channel is called Pop Girl and it was launched on 6 August 2007. Its third sister channel, Kix! was launched on 19 May 2008, and replaced Pop +1, the 1-Hour timeshift of Pop.
Tiny Pop broadcasts on Sky channel 617 and Virgin Media channel 737.
Programmes are introduced through the channels to animated monkeys, known as the Cheeky Monkeys, who 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.
On October 11, 2007, Tiny Pop was launched on Virgin Media, along with its sister channel Pop.
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[edit] Programmes
[edit] Current programmes
- Aesop's Theatre
- Billy
- Bindi the Jungle Girl
- Hurray for Huckle!
- Captain Mack
- Doodlebops
- Dive Olly Dive
- Learn to Dance
- Little Bear
- Milly, Molly
- Monkey See Monkey Do
- Nelly and Caesar
- Noonbory and the Super Seven
- Peep and the Big Wide World
- Rubbadubbers
- Rolie Polie Olie
- SamSam
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Toybox
- This is Daniel Cook
- This is Emily Yeung
- The New Adventures of Madeline
- Toopy and Binoo
- Wild Animal Baby Explorers
- Will & Dewitt
[edit] Upcoming programmes
- Peep and the Big Wide World (20th February 2012)
- Dino Babies (TBA)
[edit] Former programmes
- Ava Riko Teo
- The Adventures of Paddington Bear
- The Babaloos
- Babar
- Benjamin The Elephant
- Blinky Bill
- The Busy World of Richard Scarry
- Brambly Hedge
- Corduroy
- Cosy Corner
- Care Bears (Nelvana episodes only)
- Cushion Kids
- Connie The Cow
- Dig and Dug With Daisy
- Dragon Tales
- Dive Olly Dive!
- Elliot Moose
- Flipper and Lopaka
- Fraggle Rock
- Franklin
- George and Martha
- Happy Valley[disambiguation needed
] - Jay Jay The Jet Plane
- Jasper the Penguin
- Kipper the Dog
- Lazy Lucy
- Lapitch the Little Shoemaker
- Letters From Felix
- Little Rosey
- Littlest Pet Shop
- Loopdidoo
- Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse
- Mumble Bumble
- My Little Pony (My Little Pony 'n Friends episodes only)
- PB Bear and Friends
- Pocket Dragon Adventures
- Rupert
- Rainbow Fish
- Scruff
- See How They Grow
- Timothy Goes to School
- Tractor Tom
- The Wheels on the Bus
- Woolamaloo
- The Wombles
- Wiggly Park
[edit] Current events
- Friday Night Special - back-to-back episodes of a particular show that changed each week. This showed from 5pm to 9pm. the main shows for this event are
- These same shows above also have a marathon every Saturday 6am-12pm.
- Every week between the hours of 1:45am and 6am, Tiny Pop airs a different program back-to-back, excluding their own continuity shown in between. These 3 programs currently are Timothy Goes to School, Corduroy and Strawberry Shortcake.
[edit] Logos
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Tiny Pop first logo (2004-2007)
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Tiny Pop second logo (2007–2011)
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Tiny Pop third logo (2011-present)
[edit] Music
As well as cartoons, the channel used to air music videos, in short slots. Named "Tiny Pops", they showed old and new songs from various artists. Originally, the music videos primarily aired, but that later changed to mainly being animated music videos, or music videos that tie into popular family films.
[edit] Tiny Pop website
Tiny Pop recently had its website launched which includes TV listings, games, jokes, an art gallery, a colouring center and competitions. Shortly after Pop and Pop Girl had their websites developed.
[edit] See also
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[edit] External links
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