BabyFirstTV
| BabyFirst | |
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| Launched | May 11, 2006 |
| Owned by |
Regency Enterprises Kardan N.V. Bellco Capital, LLC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) 16:9 Letterbox |
| Slogan | Watch Your Baby Blossom |
| Language |
Albanian Chinese English Spanish French Turkish German Portuguese Polish Thai |
| Broadcast area | United States Mexico Europe Asia |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Website | BabyFirstTV.com |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV (United States) | 293 (SD) |
| Dish Network (United States) | 823 |
| Sky (Latin America) | 327 |
| Digiturk (Turkey) | 64 |
| Dish Home (Nepal) | 802 |
| Cable | |
| XFINITY/Comcast | Channel 314 |
| Time Warner Cable | 256 |
| Rogers (Canada) | 233 |
| UPC Polska (Poland) | 667 |
| ZON TVCabo (Portugal) | 46 |
| First Media (Indonesia) | 128 |
| SkyCable (Philippines) | 121 |
| Parasat Cable TV (Cagayan de Oro) | 103 |
| IPTV | |
| Orange (Spain) | Mobile |
| Vodafone (Spain) | Mobile |
| Turkcell (Turkey) | Mobile |
| StarHub TV(Singapore) | 301 |
| CHT MOD (Taiwan) | 122 |
| (Macau) | 32 |
| Verizon FiOS (United States) | 765 (HD) 1719 (Spanish feed) |
BabyFirst is a media company that produces and distributes content for babies through television, the internet and mobile apps. The content is intended to develop a baby's skills, such as color recognition, counting and vocabulary. There are about 90 BabyFirst TV shows and 41 apps for mobile devices. As of 2014, the network is distributed to 81 million homes, and is based in Los Angeles, California.
BabyFirst was founded in 2004 by Guy Oranim and Sharon Rechter. Its first broadcast was through DirecTV in 2006. It was founded by Regency Enterprises, Kardan, and Bellco Capital. Distribution expanded through agreements with the Echostar Dish Network, Comcast, AT&T U-verse and others. It also developed a premium BabyFirst YouTube channel, and mobile apps. One app developed with AT&T U-verse allows babies to interact with the television programming by drawing on a mobile device.
BabyFirst was founded in 2004 by Guy Oranim and Sharon Rechter. The network was launched on May 11, 2006 on DirecTV and was later made available through EchoStar's Dish Network that June. It was made available through EchoStar's Dish Network that June. The BabyFirst network is based in Los Angeles and was initially funded by Regency Enterprises (a Hollywood movie studio), Kardan (a holding company) and Bellco Capital (a private fund). BabyFirst was controversial when it was introduced, because it was the first 24-hour channel for children six months to three years in age. However, the channel was popular among parents and grew quickly.
In 2007, BabyFirst obtained agreements to distribute the channel in the United Kingdom through the BSkyB satellite network as well as in Mexico through Sky Mexico and Cablevision. A French version was introduced with CanalSat in 2007. By the end of 2007, it had arranged broadcasting agreements throughout Europe, the Middle-East and Canada among others.
BabyFirst also started broadcasting in ten territories in the Asia Pacific, such as China and Korea. In October 2008, SingTel started distributing the channel to the Singapore audience. It was also being broadcast in Africa and Latin America. In May 2008, it signed a distribution agreement with Time Warner Cable. In 2009, HBO Asia became the exclusive distributor for the channel in Asia. A bilingual Latin/English channel, BabyFirst Americas, was launched with Comcast in 2012. A premium BabyFirst YouTube channel was introduced in June 2013.
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