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| Launched | May 29 2003 |
| Owned by | CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels) |
| Audience share | 0.1% (0.0% for +1) (November 2007, [1]) |
| Formerly called | Toons & Tunes (Until June 2003) |
| Sister channel(s) | Tiny Pop Pop Girl |
| Timeshift service | Pop +1 |
| Website | popfun.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 616 Channel 627 (+1) |
| Eurobird 1 | 11642V 27500 2/3 |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | 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 May 29, 2003. Its sister channel Tiny Pop, which was launched on July 27, 2004, has similar content but for younger children. Its second sister channel Pop Girl was launched on August 6, 2007, and also shows cartoons but is aimed at a more female audience. Pop broadcasts on Sky Digital channel 616 and Virgin Media channel 736. 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 then 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". Pop on POP also returned late at night from 10:30pm to 1:20am non-stop, replacing Teleshopping on POP!. On October 11, 2007, POP! was launched on Virgin Media, along with its sister channel Tiny Pop.
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Programmes
There are a selection of programmes that broadcast on Pop, including the following: (In order of appearance)
Current Programs
- Cyberchase
- The Magic School Bus - An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wonderous educational field trips with the help of a magical schoolbus.
- Pigeon Boy
- Dennis the Menace (United States version)
- Flatmania
- Old Tom
- Super Mario World - A sequel series to Super Mario Bros 3., based on the SNES game of the game name. (Note: Both this show The Super Mario Brothers Super Show Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World were titled Super Mario on both the SkyGuide EPG and before the show. Some of the episodes also contain episodes of Captain N: The Game Master)
- The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 - Based on the smash hit Nintendo game of the Super Mario Bros. 3.
- Transformers
- Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog - Based on Sega's mascot.
- Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
- Sonic Underground - Based on Sega's mascot.
- Inspector Gadget
- Pop Party
Coming Soon
Former Programs
- Tabaluga
- Super Duper Sumos
- What about Mimi
- Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) - Based on Sega's mascot.
- Redwall
- Fantomcat
- Renada
- The Incredible Dennis the Menace
- Poochini
- Twipsy
- Girl Stuff, Boy Stuff
- Archie's Weird Mysteries - Tales from the Archie comic books archive.
- Rupert
- Pippi Longstocking
- Olliver's Adventures
- The NeverEnding Story - Based on the family movie of the same name.
- George Shrinks
- The Snorks - Exploring the world of an underwater civilization.
- Patrol 03
- The Raggy Dolls
- Fantom Cat
- Bimble's Bucket
- Angela Anaconda
- Noah's Island
- The Legend Of White Fang
- The Wacky World Of Tex Avery
- Blazing Dragons
- Kampung Boy
- Timothy Goes To School
- Tractor Tom
- Madeline
- George and Martha
- The Loggerheads
- The Animal Shelf
- Little Rosey
- Tube Mice
- Calamity Jane
- Fruitte Tooties
- Santo Bugito
- Tractor Tom
- Seven Little Monsters
- What-a-Mess
- Stickin Around
- The Wizard of Oz
- Elliot Moose
- Tom and Vicky
- Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
- Mummy Nanny
- Babar
- King (acquired from NickToons UK)
- The Little Grey Rabbit
- Rocky and the Dodos
- The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
Special 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 9th June 2007
- Mario Morning - Saturdays and Sundays 6am to 12pm.
Logos
 Pop's first logo (2003-2006) |
 Pop's second logo (2006-Present) |
See also
External links
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