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JimJam

JimJam

Preschool television channel

For the 2000 jazz-funk album, see Jimjam.

JimJam is an international children's preschool television channel which originally launched in Italy on Sky in 2006.[1][2]

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JimJam is available across Europe and Africa.[3]

History

JimJam was launched on 1 October 2006. In September 2007, HIT Entertainment and Chellomedia (European content division of Liberty Global, currently AMC Networks International) formed a joint venture to run a children's channel. The channel was advertised as international, with plans to start cable and satellite broadcast in Western and Eastern Europe and then expand broadcasting worldwide (outside the UK, Ireland, US and Canada).[4]

The channel was expanded to Central and Eastern Europe in November 2007. By May 2008, JimJam launched in the Netherlands and Switzerland.[1] By 2010, the channel had been broadcast in over 50 territories in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. By August 2010, HIT Entertainment withdrew from the JimJam joint venture, leaving JimJam wholly owned by Chello Zone. HIT Entertainment was supposed to keep providing content for JimJam.[2] By 2013, JimJam was available to an audience of 17 million subscribers in 13 languages. The channel has been broadcast in over 60 territories in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Africa, with seven feeds and four localized versions.[3][5]

JimJam closed in Asia-Pacific on 9 December 2014, Italy on 30 June 2015, in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands on 1 March 2018,[6] Cyprus, Greece, Middle East and North Africa on 1 January 2020, in the CIS Nations on 10 March 2022, and in Portugal on 1 July 2022.

A dedicated Lithuanian version was launched on 29 August 2012.[7]

A dedicated Hungarian version was launched on 1 January 2020.[8]

A dedicated Romanian version was launched on 1 March 2020.[9]

Programming

As of March 2023, the following programmes air on JimJam:[10]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Chala, Jean K. (28 February 2009). Transnational Television in Europe: Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks. I.B.Tauris. p. 124. ISBN 9780857717474.
  2. [2]
    "Hit pulls out of JimJam JV". Digital TV Europe. TBIvision. 22 October 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Dutch-language feed for JimJam". BroadBand TV News. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  4. [4]
    "Chellomedia and Hit Entertainment Form Joint Venture to Launch and Distribute International Pre-School Channel" (PDF). HIT Entertainment. 26 September 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  5. [5]
    "JimJam launches on Russia's Tricolor TV". Digital TV Europe. TBIvision. 29 May 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  6. [6]
    "JimJam trekt zich terug van Nederlandse TV-markt". MediaMagazine.nl (in Dutch). 12 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  7. [7]
    "TV kanalas ikimokyklinukams "JimJam" – jau lietuviškai" [JimJam launches in Lithuania]. mamyciuklubas.lt (in Lithuanian). 29 August 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  8. [8]
    Szalay, Dániel (6 November 2019). "Érkezik a teljesen magyar JimJam tévécsatorna". Media1 (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  9. [9]
    "JIMJAM-FEED LOCAL-ROMANIA / JimJam lansează un feed special pentru România pe care va măsura audiența și va vinde publicitate locală". Media Expres (in Romanian). 27 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 October 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  10. [10]
    "JimJam". 2 November 2022. Archived from the original on 2 November 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
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