ZooMoo
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| Broadcast area | Worldwide (except Europe) |
|---|---|
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English Latin American Spanish Brazilian Portuguese Indonesian Thai |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Blue Ant Media |
| Sister channels | Blue Ant Entertainment Blue Ant Extreme |
| History | |
| Launched | September 2013 (Brazil)[1] |
| Closed | 1 April 2018 (SD Feed, Malaysia) 2020 (United Kingdom) |
| Links | |
| Website | https://www.zoomoo.tv/ |
| Availability | |
| Cable | |
| First Media (Indonesia) | Channel 372 (HD) |
| Cable TV Hong Kong | Channel 518 |
| Sky Cable (Philippines) | Channel 120 |
| Tigo (Bolivia) | Channel 730 (HD) |
| Cablelink (Philippines) | Channel TBA |
| Satellite | |
| K-Vision (Indonesia) | Channel 76 |
| DirecTV (US) | Channel 432 |
| Sky Brasil (Brazil) | Channel 52 |
| Claro TV (Brazil) | Channel 613 (HD) |
| CANAL+ (Myanmar) | Channel 91 |
| G Sat (Philippines) | Channel 27 |
| Zuku TV (Kenya) | Channel 630 |
| DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa) | Channel 314 |
| IPTV | |
| Fetch TV (Australia) | Channel 275 |
| Dhiraagu TV (Maldives) | Channel 167 |
| MNC Play Media | Channel 39 |
ZooMoo is an international multilanguage pay television channel owned by Singapore's Beach House Pictures and New Zealand's NHNZ. This channel was first launched in Brazil in September 2013 in high definition (HD).[1] On 4 April 2014, ZooMoo was launched in Singapore via Starhub. In 2016, Canadian-based Blue Ant Media acquired a majority stake in the channel. The ZooMoo brand name is also used for international programming blocks broadcasting ZooMoo's original programming.
ZooMoo features puppetry, animations, games, music, puzzles and activities.[2] Programming on the channel is a blend of in-house original productions and acquired programming such as Jelly Jamm and Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends.
On 25 May 2018, the channel was launched in the Philippines on Easy TV Home.
The channel launched on Virgin Media channels 295 and 739 on 21 July 2018. A temporary duplicate of the SD channel launched a day later following the removal of the UKTV network of channels, taking the slot held by Eden +1, until they returned on 11 August 2018. The SD version was removed from channel 295 a few days later. The HD channel was removed from Virgin Media on 7 January 2020. The UK channel later closed in the same year.
On 1 December 2018, a ZooMoo programming block was launched on Cignal's exclusive channel, Colours.[3]
In Latin America, Brazil and the United States, ZooMoo is operated by AMC Networks International. Currently, the United States and Latin America share a ZooMoo feed, which is available in English and Spanish. The Brazilian feed, known as "ZooMoo Kids," features some exclusive shows produced in Brazil, and only features programming in Portuguese.
On 1 April 2020, it was launched on Zuku TV in Africa[4] and 6 months later on DStv[5] as a "pop-up channel" which has been extended from March to the end of June 2021.[6]
On 16 June 2020, Your Family Entertainment and Blue Ant Media made a "content swap" agreement which enabled an exchange of programming between the YFE catalog and the international ZooMoo channels to occur.[7] As a result, ZooMoo feeds worldwide began broadcasting series from the YFE catalog. The EMEA feed currently airs Albert Says... Nature Knows Best, Gloria's House, Urmel and Bob's Beach as a result of the swap. The United States/Latin America feed broadcasts Albert Says... Nature Knows Best, Urmel and Bob's Beach. The international kids' TV channels operated by YFE, Fix & Foxi and RiC, also begun to air some of ZooMoo's content, including their acquired animated series Jelly Jamm, as a result.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Zoomoo - Original Wildlife Channel Premieres on Starhub". ZooMoo Networks eKit. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ "ZooMoo and StarHub Unveil Asia's First Kids Channel Dedicated to Wildlife". StarHub. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/colourstvph/videos/260060611342181/
- ^ https://free.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=822932268220055&id=201504750362813/
- ^ https://www.news24.com/channel/tv/news/5-new-channels-coming-to-dstv-20200819/
- ^ https://www.dstv.co.za/whats-on/news/articles/zoomoo-dstv-314-is-giving-kids-more-to-love-this-february/
- ^ https://www.c21media.net/news/yfe-blue-ant-agree-content-swap-deal/
External links[edit]
- Blue Ant Media channels
- Puppetry
- Television channels and stations established in 2014
- Commercial-free television networks
- Television in Singapore
- Children's television channels in Ireland
- Children's television channels in the United Kingdom
- Children's television networks
- English-language television stations in the United Kingdom
- English-language television stations in Ireland
- Mass media in Southeast Asia
- English-language television stations in the Philippines
- Children's television channels in the Philippines
- Preschool education television networks