Tiny Pop
| Tiny Pop | |
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| Launched | 27 July 2004 |
| Owned by | Sony Pictures Television |
| Picture format |
576i (16:9/4:3) (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audience share | 0.30% 0.03% (+1) (September 2015, BARB) |
| Replaced |
Pop Plus Pop Max (Tiny Pop + 1 Only) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Chart Show Hits Chart Show TV Flava Kix Movies4Men Pop Scuzz Animax Sony Channel Sony Movie Channel Starz TV True Crime True Entertainment True Movies The Vault |
| Website | Tinypop.com |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview | Channel 126 (where local services are available) |
| 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 |
| Streaming media | |
| FilmOn | |
| Sky Go |
Watch live (UK and Ireland only) |
| Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (UK 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 7 and under . The station broadcasts principally animated content sourced from various distributors.
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-2000s (decade), 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. Pop was removed in 2011, but was brought back on August 25, 2016 . The station has also been made available over other cable systems.
On 14 July 2016, Tiny Pop +1 was replaced by Pop Max. The channel airs full series of various shows from POP. Pop Max closed on 1 December 2016, and reverted to Tiny Pop +1, the stations timeshift service.
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 7 January 2015, Tiny Pop was launched fully on DTT and as from 15 March 2017, is now broadcast 24 hours a day on Freeview. Round-the-clock service continues on satellite and cable.
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