Tiny Pop

History

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.

Freeview

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.

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 (i.e Made in Cardiff) is broadcast.

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.

Programmes

Some of the programmes that air are sourced from the likes of Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Beyond Television Productions, Cake Entertainment, DreamWorks Classics, Jetpack Distribution, 9 Story Media Group, Hasbro Studios, DHX Media, HIT Entertainment, m4e AG, Nelvana, Studio 100, Splash Entertainment, Tremendous Entertainment Group and The Jim Henson Company.

Current programmes

The programmes currently running are as follows:

Tiny Pop Through the Night

A late-night schedule follows, consisting of a show running back-to-back. It runs 01:00am until 5:00am The block is entitled as Tiny Pop Through The Night. It originally aired between 12:00am and 6:00am. It was cut one hour short at the end in 2016, and then in March 2017 it started airing from 1:00am to 5:00am. A different show airs on a day of the week, even though sometimes programmes can vary. Each block is preceded by a half-hour of Tip the Mouse and succeeded by a 10-minute episode of Milly, Molly.

Tiny Pop Through the Night programming

The programmes currently running, according to Tiny Pop's website, are as follows: Some programmes are not listed here.