Pop (TV channel)

Infobox TV channel
name = Pop
logosize = 200px
logofile = Poplogo.jpg
logoalt = Pop TV Logo
launch = May 29 2003
share = 0.1%
share as of = June 2008
share source = [http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/monthreports.cfm?report=monthgmulti]
owner = CSC Media Group
country = UK
former names = Toons & Tunes (Until June 2003)
sister names = Tiny Pop
Pop Girl
Kix!
timeshift names =
web = [http://www.popfun.co.uk/ popfun.co.uk]
sat serv 1 = Freesat
sat chan 1 = Channel 603
sat serv 2 = Sky Digital
sat chan 2 = Channel 616
sat serv 3 = Eurobird 1
sat chan 3 = 11642V 27500 2/3
cable serv 1 = Virgin Media
cable chan 1 = Channel 736|: "This article is about a UK television channel. For information on the Slovenian television network, see POP TV."

Pop is a free-to-air television channel in the UK, broadcasting cartoons and pop music videos. It is owned and operated by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels) and launched on 29 May, 2003. Its sister channel Tiny Pop, which was launched on 27 July, 2004, has similar content but for younger children. Its second sister channel Pop Girl was launched on 6 August, 2007, and also shows cartoons and live action shows but is aimed at a more female audience. Its third sister channel, Kix! was launched on 19 May, 2008, and also shows cartoons but is aimed at a more male audience.

Pop broadcasts on Sky Digital, Virgin Media and Freesat. Before and after advertisements during pop music, the channel's mascots — two cartoon characters — talk about upcoming cartoons, introduce competitions, read viewers' jokes and show viewers' artwork. The characters are a dragon called Rorry (identical to "Tricky", who "presented" a Saturday morning show on ITV in 1997), and his pet cat called Purrdy (again, taken from the Saturday morning show).

Pop's logo originally consisted of the word 'pop' in blue writing, with a red background. When shown on the channel, the logo was animated, with balloons floating past the letters, or the letters themselves becoming balloons. It changed in October 2006 to white letters on an orange background. The letters became all caps, and an exclamation mark was added.

In October 2006 a further change was added: Now the all cap letters ("!" included) are 3D representated and during advert breaks are shown dancing or chasing each other and eventually spelling out the logo "POP!". This ident was set to music very similar to "Benny Hill", though this was changed after a few months, perhaps due to the similarity.

Originally the channel was mainly music videos until February 2004 when cartoons were first shown. Music videos were kept on the channel, but were then dropped entirely during mid-2006. They were later revived in early 2007, but only during a 60 minute slot called "Pop Party".

On 11 October, 2007, POP! was launched on Virgin Media, along with its sister channel Tiny Pop.

Programmes

There are a selection of programmes that broadcast on Pop:

Current Programmes

POP Junior

Since 12 May, a new block was made called "POP Junior", which has a slight change to the channel's logo between 9am and 12pm every weekday during the school term. The block shows some cartoons such as Inspector Gadget or The Littlest Pet Shop.

pecial Events

POP has occasionally aired special events:
* Sonic Day - Bank Holidays airing Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog all day. (On the first Sonic Day, Rorry would give out what episode was aired after and before the episode)
* Super Sonic Week - 4 episodes of Sonic the Hedgehog between 11am to 1pm.
* Super Sonic Hour - This was on April for 2 weeks, it would play Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and then Sonic Underground on 8-8:30am, 12pm - 12:30pm and 5pm - 5:30pm. After Super Sonic Hour, AoSTH was taken off the schedule which was replaced with Sonic Underground and that shows time slot changed to Redwall.
* Bank Holiday Monday 29 May 2006 - Pop aired Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (for the first time in over a month) and Sonic Underground all day.
* Sonic Week October 2006 - Pop aired Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and Sonic Underground all week.
* Sonic Saturday was on 9 June 2007
* Mario Morning - Saturdays and Sundays 6am to 12pm.

Pop Website

Pop recently had a website launched which includes a TV guide and more features such as quizzes, art galleries, jokes, games and competitions. This happened shortly after Tiny Pop had a new website developed.

Pop+1 Closure

The AGB Nielsen Media Research website first announced that Pop+1 would close and would be replaced by a new channel called Klix!, [ [http://www.agbnielsen.co.uk/agb/files/ClientServices/New%20BARB%20Channels/Pop%20+1%20-%20Rebranding.doc Pop+1 to cease to be a staggercast (+1 hour timeshift) channel (Original article)] ] however, this was a mistake and the channel was now in fact called Kix!. The correction was made with a new article being posted. It was stated that all the other details will remain the same of which was posted in the original article. [ [http://www.agbnielsen.co.uk/agb/files/ClientServices/New%20BARB%20Channels/Pop%20+1%20-%20Rebranding%20Correction.doc Pop+1 to cease to be a staggercast (+1 hour timeshift) channel (Revised article)] ] Pop+1 officially closed at 6.00am on Monday 19th May, when it was replaced with Kix!. It is currently unknown wheither or not that Pop+1 would return in the future.

Logos

ee also

* Tiny Pop
* Pop Girl
* Kix!
* Tricky (TV series)

References

External links

* [http://www.popfun.co.uk/ Pop Website]