CBeebies

CBeebies is British public television network owned by British Broadcasting Corporation. The channel broadcasts animated and live-action series programmings for children from 2 to 7 years.

History[]

CBeebies launched on 11 February 2002. The domestic CBeebies broadcasts from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 pm each day - a result of the channel sharing bandwidth with the channel BBC Four on Freeview. The station was joined in March 2007 by an audio counterpart, CBeebies Radio, which broadcast for three hours each day on the radio station BBC Radio 7, however since the station was rebranded as BBC Radio 4 Extra in April 2011, this obligation has ceased. CBeebies Radio, however, has continued as a feature on the channel’s website since 2013. A magazine called CBeebies Weekly (now called CBeebies Magazine) was first published in 2006.

Since 27 March 2013, CBeebies has been carried by the British Forces Broadcasting Service, sharing a channel with BFBS Extra.

The international CBeebies is advert-free and wholly owned by BBC Studios. The first international launch for CBeebies was in India in May 2007, although the channel was withdrawn at the end of November 2012 due to "commercial considerations".

The channel is available in the Republic of Ireland, Asia, Poland, Turkey, MENA, Africa, Australia. In March 2011, the on demand version of the network was launched in the US and is available on Xfinity.

On 13 May 2011, CBeebies was launched as a program block on the channel BBC Kids in Canada, available on weekdays between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm. It is serving a similar schedule to the main channel.

On 10 March 2017, CBeebies Asia was launched in Taiwan, replacing BBC Entertainment. CBeebies Asia has already launched in Hong Kong, South Korea, Myanmar, the Philippines, Mongolia, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.

On 13 April 2017, the service ceased its transmissions to Latin America along with BBC Earth and BBC Entertainment.