Tiny Pop

Tiny Pop
Launched 27 July 2004
Owned by Sony Pictures Television
Picture format 576i (16:9) (SDTV)
Audience share 0.23%
0.02% (+1) (August 2018 (2018-08), BARB)
Replaced Pop Plus
Sister channel(s) Chart Show Hits
Chart Show TV
Movies4Men
Pop
Pop Max
Scuzz
Sony Crime Channel
Sony Crime Channel 2
Sony Movie Channel
Starz TV
TruTV
True Entertainment
True Movies
The Vault
Website Tinypop.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview Channel 207
Channel 210 (+1)
Satellite
Freesat Channel 605
Channel 609 (+1)
Sky Channel 617
Channel 624 (+1)
Eutelsat 28A 11307 V 27500 2/3
11307 V 27500 2/3 (+1)
Cable
WightFibre Channel 104
Virgin Media (UK) Channel 737
TalkTalk Channel 403
Channel 412 (+1)
Streaming media
FilmOn Internet Protocol Television
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 Sony Pictures Television Networks. Broadcast on many of the major digital television platforms in the UK, its target audience is children aged 7 and under.[1] The station broadcasts principally animated content sourced from various distributors.

History

Tiny Pop logo used from 2011 to 2018

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).

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 (who are also monkeys).

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 25 August 2016. The station has also been made available over other cable systems.

On 14 July 2016, Tiny Pop +1 was temporarily rebranded as Pop Max. The channel aired back-to-back episodes of a show from POP. Pop Max reverted to Tiny Pop +1 on December 1, 2016. The channel ran a second time from 9 February 2017 to 25 April 2017.

On 3 September 2018, the channel was rebranded.

Freeview

On 23 October 2014, Tiny Pop was launched on Freeview, running daily from 3 pm to 7 pm 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.

Prior to January 2015, the channel had broadcast billed programmes from 0600 to 2230, teleshopping content from 2230 to 0130, and a 'Through the Night' programming block from 0130 to 0600. From 1 January 2015, the schedule changed to run billed content from 0600 to 0000, with 'Through the Night' for the remaining six hours, with the teleshopping block dropped; sister channel POP had also removed its prior teleshopping block ahead of its move onto Freeview. Also sister channel Pop shown Tiny Pop programmes on their channel, until February 2015.

On 15 March 2017, Tiny Pop changed its service on Freeview, moving to the Local Television multiplexes across the UK, meaning that the channel is only available on Freeview where a local television service (e.g. Made in Cardiff) is broadcast.[2]

Programming

References

  1. ↑ "Tiny Pop". CSC Media Group. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "Tiny Pop available on Local Freeview channel 126". TinyPop.com. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
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