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Encyclopedia > Tiny Pop
Tiny Pop
Launched July 12, 2004
Owned by Chart Show Channels
Audience share 0.1% (July '07, [1])
Replaced Pop Plus
Sister channel(s) Pop
Pop Girl
Timeshift service Tiny Pop +1
Website popclub.tv
Availability
Satellite
Sky Digital Channel 617
Channel 625 (+1)
Eurobird 1 11426 V 27500 2/3

Tiny Pop is a free-to-air British satellite television channel owned and operated by Chart Show Channels. It is licensed to air animation and music. Its brother channel is Pop. The station is a replacement for the now-defunct Pop Plus, which was originally a secondary channel of Pop, but Tiny Pop is aimed at a younger audience (simliar to the CBBC Channel and CBeebies) Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chart Show Channels are a UK-based satellite television channel provider, named after the defunct The Chart Show. ... Tiny Pop is a free-to-air satellite television channel owned and operated by Chart Show Channels. ... This article is about a UK childrens television channel. ... Pop Girl is a free-to-air television channel in the UK, broadcasting cartoons and pop music videos for girls. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... Eurobird 1 is a Eutelsat operated satellite, used for digital television. ... Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ... Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television. ... Chart Show Channels are a UK-based satellite television channel provider, named after the defunct The Chart Show. ... The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ... This article is about a UK childrens television channel. ... Tiny Pop is a free-to-air satellite television channel owned and operated by Chart Show Channels. ... The CBBC Channel is a British television service aimed at 6 to 13 year olds produced by the BBC. It complements the CBBC programming that continues to air on BBC One and BBC Two. ... CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children six years and under. ...


Programmes are introduced through animations of monkeys, known as the Cheeky Monkeys, who read out jokes from viewers. Many programmes in the early hours of the morning are shown without commercial breaks, though late night entertainment (generally 22.00 - 01.40) is replaced by Teleshopping.

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Programmes

Cartoons

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Music

As well as cartoons, the channel used to air music videos, in short slots. Named "Tiny Pops", they showed old and new songs from various artists. Originally, the music videos primarily aired were from boy bands, but that later changed to mainly being animated music videos, or music videos that tie into popular family films. A boy band (American English) or boyband (British English) is a style of somewhat to mostly prefabricated pop group featuring about between three and six young male singer/dancers, but normally five. ... The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ...


External links

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  Results from FactBites:
 
Tiny Pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (206 words)
Tiny Pop is a free-to-air British satellite television channel owned and operated by Chart Show Channels.
It is aimed at a younger audience than its sister channel Pop.
Named "Tiny Pops", they show old and new songs from various artists, although mainly boybands, which are aimed at the younger viewers.
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