Pop Girl
| Pop Girl | |
|---|---|
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| Launched | 6 August 2007 |
| Closed | 1 October 2015 |
| Owned by | Sony Pictures Television |
| Picture format | 16:9/4:3, 576i (SDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.02% (September 2015, BARB) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Bliss Chart Show Dance Chart Show TV Flava Kix More Than Movies Movies4Men Pop Scuzz Sony Entertainment Television Sony Movie Channel Starz TV Tiny Pop True Drama True Entertainment True Movies 1 True Movies 2 The Vault |
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Availability
(at time of closure) |
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| Satellite | |
| Freesat | Channel 604 |
| Sky | Channel 626 |
| Eutelsat 28A | 11307 V 27500 2/3 |
Pop Girl was a free-to-air children's television channel in the United Kingdom, owned by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels), a company associated with the makers of The Chart Show, a television programme that had previously been on Channel 4 and ITV. As of June 2014, it broadcast cartoons, live action and pop music videos on Sky and Freesat. Its target audience was 7 to 12-year-old girls.
Pop Girl originally broadcast from 6am until 9pm in order to share bandwidth with the now-defunct AnimeCentral, a general entertainment channel also owned and operated by CSC Media Group, which broadcast from 9pm until 6am. Subsequently Pop Girl's broadcast hours were extended to match those of Kix and it now broadcasts from 6am until 11:30pm. This allowed the sharing arrangement with AnimeCentral to end, thus allowing the entertainment channel to broadcast 24 hours when it became Showcase TV (now 'True Entertainment').
According to CSC Media, as of June 2014, Pop Girl's "defining programmes" were:
The showreel on CSC Media's PopGirl page also included extracts from Really Me, Flight 29 Down, and How to Be Indie.
Since 12 May 2008, a new block was made called "Little Miss Pop Girl", which sees a slight change to the channel's content between 9am and 12pm every weekday during the school term. The block was aimed at younger girls and shows cartoons such as Lazy Lucy or , including some programmes which are more commonly seen on Tiny Pop. The logo for the block was the regular Pop Girl logo with the words 'Little Miss' superimposed above. The block did not run at weekends or during school holidays.
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